United States
                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C. 20460
 Solid Waste
 and Emergency
 Response (5101)
                     EPA 500-F-00-024
                     April 2000
                     www.epa.gov/brownfields/
  <&EPA  Brownfields Supplemental
                   Assistance
                                                             Indianapolis,  IN
 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 awarded the City of Indianapolis supplemental
assistance for its Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot. Indianapolis benefits from a
wealth of energy resources in surrounding areas,
including natural gas and coal. As a result, the area
has seen tremendous growth in both commercial and
manufacturing industries and in population over the
years. Recently, citizens have been moving out of the
inner city to the surrounding suburbs, and industries
are relocating to follow the workforce. Many of these
industries are leaving behind urban sites that are
contaminated or perceived to be contaminated. It is
estimated that Indianapolis contains approximately
1,000 acres of brownfields.

OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

Indianapolis will use the supplemental assistance to
continue its ongoing brownfields revitalization efforts.
The  fundamental mission  of Indianapolis's
redevelopment efforts is to revitalize brownfields
properties in an economically and socially responsible
manner that will enhance the quality of life within
Indianapolis. To do this, the city will initiate, facilitate,
assist,  and encourage projects that  community
development organizations undertake,  while
PILOT  SNAPSHOT
  Indianapolis, Indiana
                      Date of Announcement:
                      March 2000

                      Amount: $150,000

                      Profile: The Pilot will
                      target a number of sites
                      througoutthecity,where
                      redevelopmentwill have
                      the greatest positive
                      impact on the local
                      community.
                     Regional Brownfields Team
                     U.S. EPA-Region 5
                     (312)886-1960
Contacts:
Department of
Metropolitan Development
Cityoflndianapolis
(317)327-7860
     Visit the EPA Region 5 Brownfields web site at:
        http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/

   For further information, including specific 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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concurrently working for positive change in surrounding
neighborhoods. The city will also encourage private
sectorparticipation inbrownfields redevelopment by
providing financial incentives and assistance, technical
assistance, and regulatory consultation.

To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:

• Use selection criteria  to select sites, which have
 already been identified as having cleanup and
 redevelopment  potential,  for assessment,
 characterization, and  investigation (the city will
 target sites where redevelopment will have the
 greatest positive impact on the local community.);

• Continue site assessments;

• Solicit community comment about sites subject to
 pilot assessment work;

• Continue its community outreach activities related
 to brownfields redevelopment;

• Leverage additional funds for acquisition, cleanup,
 demolition, and other  brownfields redevelopment
 activities; and

• Work with economic development staff, community
 development organizations, and members of the
 Brownfields Redevelopment Advisory Group
 (BRAG) to identify potential end uses for selected
 sites.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
 Brownfields Supplemental Assistance                                                         Indianapolis, IN
 April 2000                                                                          EPA 500-F-00-024

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