United States
                       Environmental
                       Protection Agency
                       Washington, D.C. 20460
 Solid Waste
 and Emergency
 Response (5105)
  EPA 500-F-01-259
  April 2001
  www.epa.gov/brownfields/
  &EPA        EPA  Brownfields
                      Assessment
                       Demonstration  Pilot
                          Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian  Community, AZ
 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, and safely clean up
brownfields to promote their sustainable reuse.  Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and
commercial  facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or  perceived environmental
contamination. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years,
with additional funding provided for greenspace) to test assessment models and facilitate coordinated assessment
and cleanup efforts at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels; and 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 program (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years) to provide financial assistance 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 Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community for a Brownfields Assessment
Pilot. The  Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community was created by Executive Order on
June 14,1879, by President RutherfordB. Hayes.
The community (6,000 tribal members) is located in
Maricopa County near Phoenix and covers 52,600
acres, comprised mostly of agricultural lands.

The targeted site is an abandoned municipal landfill
that for decades received waste from the Phoenix
metropolitan area. The landfill, which is on tribal land
that borders the SaltRiver, has hindered community
redevelopment efforts for the last 20 years. This lack
of development contrasts sharply with economic
growth  in  the immediately adjacent Phoenix
metropolitan area, which has expanded at nearly
three times the national rate during the same period.
Nearly 42 percent of the Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community' s residents live below the poverty level
and unemployment is about 20 percent among the
two sovereign tribes.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Date of Announcement:
April 2001

Amount: $200,000

Profile: The Pilot will be the first
step in a process to turn an
abandoned landfill intoasitesuitable
foractiveand productive use in the
economically depressed Salt River
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Arizona
Contacts:

Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Cultural & Environmental Services
(480)850-8045
    Regional Brownfields Team
    U.S. EPA - Region 9
    (415)744-2237
     Visit the E PA Region 9 Brownfields web site at:
  http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/index.html

   Forfurtherinformation,includingspecific Pilot contacts,
 additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
 publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
        http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/

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OBJECTIVES

The community holds high standards for sustainable
development. It seeks to revitalize the landfill area to
createjobsandredevelopmentopportunities within
the community. The Pilot will develop plans to ensure
thatredevelopmentisconsistentwiththecommunity's
vision of sustainable development, assess the landfill,
and develop a reuse strategy.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Preparing plans for health and safety, quality
  assurance,community outreach, andenvironmental
  justice;

• Performing environmentalsite assessmentactivities;

• Conducting multilingual community outreach to
  ensure that community values drive the process
  and community concerns are addressed; and

• Developing a cleanup and reuse strategy that
  balances economic and community needs.

The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
 Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot                             Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Arizona
 April 2001                                                                           EPA500-F-01-259

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