United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-00-100
May 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
\>EPA Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot
Greenville, SC
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5105)
Quick Reference Fact Sheet
EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower states, communities, and other
stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and
sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or perceived contamination and
an active potential for redevelopment or reuse. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded
up to $200,000 over two years), to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models; job training
pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities affected
by brownfields to facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental
field; and, cleanup revolving loan fund programs (each funded up to $500,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds
to make loans for the environmental cleanup of brownfields. These pilot programs are intended to provide EPA, states,
tribes, municipalities, and communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods
to promote a unified approach to site assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
BACKGROUND
EPA has selected the City of Greenville for a
Brownfields Pilot. The area west of downtown,
known as the West Greenville/Reedy River Corridor,
was the textile center ofthe region in the early 1800s.
With the decline in the textile industry and development
ofthe eastern part ofthe city in the mid-1900s, the
Corridor fell into economic decline. Nearly one-third
ofthe residents in the area lives in poverty, and more
than half ofthe population (15,294 in the Corridor) is
African American.
The metropolitan area of Greenville has experienced
significant economic growth in recent years, but that
prosperity has yetto flow over into the West Greenville/
Reedy River Corridor. This area remains blighted by
a number of abandoned and underutilized industrial
properties, including several large textile facilities and
bleacheries. Perceived or known environmental
contamination has limited development in the Corridor
and has raised concerns regarding water quality, river
sediment, and flood plain deposits.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Date of Announcement:
May 2000
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Greenville Pilot will
address brownfields in the West
Greenville/Reedy RiverCorridor,
an area blighted by abandoned
textile mills and bleacheries.
Greenville, SC
Contacts:
West Greenville/Reedy
RiverCorridor Revitalization
City of Greenville
(864)467-4495
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 4
(404)562-8661
Visit the EPA Region 4 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region4/wastepgs/brownfpgs/bf.htm
Forfurther information, including specific Pilot contacts,
additional Pilot information, brownfields newsand events, and
publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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OBJECTIVES
The Greenville Pilot plans to identify, address, and
remove real and perceived environmental concerns
in the Corridor that currently stand in the way of
redevelopment. Community input will be sought in all
stages, from developing an inventory of potential
brownfields to creating a redevelopment strategy.
The overall goal is to facilitate economic revitalization
in the Corridor in a manner that ensures protection of
human health and the environment.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Developing a site inventory of the targeted area;
• Selecting up to five high-priority sites for Phase I
environmental assessments;
• Performing Phase II site assessments on three of
the selected sites;
• Creating a detailed cleanup and redevelopment plan
for at least one site; and
• Forming a task force of representatives from local
and neighborhood groups, developers, lenders,
businesses, and city, county, and state governments
to help direct the implementation of the project.
The cooperative agreementforthis Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subjectto change.
Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot Greenville, SC
May2000 EPA 500-F-00-100
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