United States
                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105)
EPA 500-F-01-305
April 2001
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
&EPA    Brownfields Supplemental
                                                             Assistance
                                                                  Roseville,  MN
 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 worktogether in atimelymannerto prevent, assess, and safely clean up brownfieldsto promote
their sustainable reuse. Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion
or redevelopment is complicated by real orperceivedenvironmentalcontamination.EPAisfunding: 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 brownfieldsto facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and preparetraineesforfuture employment intheenvironmental
field; and, a 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 City of Roseville to receive
supplemental assistance  for its  Brownfields
Assessment  Demonstration  Pilot.   Roseville
(population 35,000) is located at the northern borders
of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Located within the city
isthe Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area(Twin Lakes),
a 170-acre area that developed as a hub for trucking
companies and related  businesses  because  of its
proximity to highways and both downtown Minneapolis
and St. Paul. However, federal deregulation  of the
trucking industry in 1980 resulted in the relocation and
downsizing of Roseville trucking-related businesses,
and many companies went out of business.

Today, the Twin Lakes area contains contaminated,
underutilized industrial, commercial, and residential
land. In 1994, the city adopted a land use plan for the
areathat calls for a variety of multi-level office, high-
tech, professional service, and multiple housing uses.
In 1998, the city established the areaas a tax increment
financing district to facilitate  redevelopment. To
continue the revitalization of the Twin Lakes area, the
city plans to  construct the  Twin Lakes Parkway,
already funded at $ 10.6 million and due for completion
in 2002-2003, which will  provide access to the
redeveloped brownfields properties; this access is
 PILOT SNAPSHOT
    Roseville, Minnesota
                        Date of Award: April2001

                        Amount: $150,000

                        Profile: The Pilot plans to
                        complete an area-wide
                        groundwater study of the
                        Twin Lakes Redevelopment
                        Area in an effortto encourage
                        andacceleratecleanupand
                        redevelopment of the area.
 Contacts:
 City of Roseville, Community
 Development Department
 (651)490-2241
 Regional Brownfields Team
 U.S. EPA - Region 5
 (312)353-9771
      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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vital for their redevelopment.   Environmental
assessments performed under EPA's Brownfields
Assessment Demonstration Pilot have identified
isolated areas of contamination in the proposed
parkway right-of-way. The supplemental funds will
be used to provide greater certainty on any required
assessment and/or cleanup.

OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
The Pilot will use EPA's supplemental assistance
grant to encourage  and accelerate cleanup and
redevelopment of the Twin Lakes Redevelopment
Area by conducting an area-wide groundwater study.
By partnering with the Minnesota Pollution Control
Agency, the state regulatory agency, the contamination
discovery process would be streamlined and cleanup
costs minimized for individual property  owners,
resulting in more efficient cleanup and redevelopment
of the sites.   Additionally, it may encourage
redevelopment of larger areas rather than parcel-by-
parcel redevelopment. The groundwater study will
also  lead to protection of any deep groundwater
resources and receptors discovered, and establish
risk-based  redevelopment goals  on an area-wide
basis.
The Pilot plans to:
• Collect existing groundwater data;

• Conduct Phase I environmental assessments;
• Develop ageographic information system database;
• Construct a conceptual groundwater model;
• Prepare and present to the Minnesota Pollution
 Control Agency  an area-wide  groundwater
 monitoring program; and

• Develop a standard, risk-based approach for soil
 and groundwater  assessments  at  individual
 properties.

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
 April2001
                              Roseville, Minnesota
                               EPA 500-F-01-305

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