United States
                      Environmental
                      Protection Agency
                      Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response(5101)
EPA500-F-99-139
June 1999
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
                      Brownfields  Assessment
                      Demonstration  Pilot
                                                          Minneapolis, MN
 Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5101)
                   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 brownfieldstofacilitatecleanupofbrownfieldssites and preparetrainees for future employmentintheenvironmental
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 Minneapolis for a
Brownfields Pilot.   The project  area is the U.S.
Department of Housing  and Urban Development
(HUD)-designated Minneapolis Empowerment Zone
(EZ), population 49,096, which includes 50 percent of
the state's hazardous waste generators and 88 percent
of its tax-forfeit properties.  Also within the EZ, 60
percent of the residents are minority and 60 percent
of the children are living in poverty.

Minneapolis and the state have been successful in
cleaning up larger contaminated sites, obtaining over
$11  million in  state and  city  funding toward
revitalization. However, smaller brownfields within
the EZ have noty et been addressed, causing economic
distress and blight within the EZ neighborhoods. Nine
brownfields sites, in a key commercial corridor and
part of the EZ, have been identified for preliminary
assessment.  Each  EZ  area has  a community
organization experienced in dealing with environmental
issues able to assist with community outreach efforts.
PILOTSNAPSHOT
  Minneapolis, Minnesota
                     Dateof Announcement:
                     June 1999

                     Amount: $200,000

                     Profile: The Pilot targets tax-
                     forfeit, orphan brownfields
                     within the Minneapolis EZ for
                     assessment, cleanup, and
                     redevelopment.
Contacts:
City of Minneapolis
Minneapolis  Community
Development Agency
(612)673-5193
 Regional Brownfields Team
 U.S. EPA-Region 5
 (312)353-3161
     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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OBJECTIVES

The Pilot will focus on the brownfields sites within the
EZ for assessment and eventual redevelopment. The
Pilot's goal is to assess and develop Remedial Action
Plans (RAP)  for three priority sites.   The EZ
Implementation Plan uses the  Minneapolis
Neighborhood  Revitalization  Program (NRP)
framework for community involvement. By using the
NRP, the Pilot  will  expand  the  communities'
involvement in  Pilot  site selection, assessment
activities, and the redevelopment process, which will
include community workshops and charettes.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS ANDACTIVITIES

Activities  planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Identifying which of nine sites require Phase I
 assessments;

• Conducting Phase I assessments on target sites;

• Identifying redevelopment planning goals based on
 Phase  I  assessment results through community
 workshops and charettes;

• Completing Phase II assessments on target sites;
 and

• Completing a RAP for three target sites.
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                                            Minneapolis, Minnesota
 June 1999                                                                        EPA500-F-99-139

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