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Brownfields
Supplemental Assistance
Port of Seattle, WA
BACKGROUND
EPA awarded the City of Seattle, in partnership with the
Port of Seattle, supplemental assistance for its Brownfields
Assessment Demonstration Pilot. The Pilot targets the
970-acre Ballard Interbay Northend Manufacturing
Industrial Center (BINMIC), established originally to
ensure the availability of industrial land for a diversified
employment base. BINMIC is home to over 1,000
businesses. The need for businesses to expand and potential
contamination on many properties has forced successful
businesses to move to other locations and threatens to
undermine the foundation of the center.
The objective of the original Pilot was to begin the process
of assessing, cleaning up, and reusing industrial properties
in the BINMIC and thus retain successful industries and
add new family-wagejobs. The original Pilot, managedby
the Port of Seattle, established baseline groundwater
hydrogeologic conditions, documented the nature of
contamination in the BINMIC, and developed standards
for soil and groundwater cleanups at typical BINMIC
sites. The supplemental funds, to be managed by the City
of Seattle in partnership with the Port, will use these tools
to address three sites that will serve as case studies for
future redevelopment in the BINMIC and serve to validate
the tools for use at other BINMIC sites. Three potential
candidate sites for case studies include a former metal
fabrication facility on a canal, a former marine engine
repair and maintenance shop by Salmon Bay, and a former
chrome plating plant.
OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
The objective of the Pilot is to build on the success of the
original Pilot and apply the tools for streamlining cleanups
to specific BINMIC properties in a case study setting. A
selection panel representing the Port of Seattle, the City of
Seattle, and the community will select sites for the case
study. Financial and technical assistance will encourage
PILOT SNAPSHOT Date of Announcement:
May 2002
Amount: $150,000
Profile: The Pilot targets three
contaminated properties in the
970-acreBINMICindustrialarea
for use as case studies in the
applicationof assessment and
cleanup planning tools.
Port of Seattle,
Washington
Contacts:
Seattle Office of Econom ic
Development
(206)684-8189
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA Region 10
(206)553-2709
Visit the E PA Region 10 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/r10earth, click on "Superfund",
scroll down and click on "Brownfields"
Forfurther information, including specific Pilot contacts, additional
Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and publications
and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
www.epa.gov/brownfields
property owners to cleanup their sites with BINMIC tools.
Each case study site will receive funds for assessment,
technical assistance, and preparation of cleanup plans. A
technical assistance team will be available to help property
owners design an assessment strategy, identify
contaminants of concern, and select cleanup goals.
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Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Providing outreach to explain the program to affected
businesses and local community members;
• Selecting the case study sites based on minimal specific
criteria; and
• Facilitating the use of BINMIC tools at the three
selected case-study sites with the help of a technical
team that will assist owners in designing an assessment
strategy, identifying chemicals of concern, and selecting
cleanup goals.
ThecooperativeagreementforthisPilothasnotyetbeennegotiated;therefore,
activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
Solid Waste EPA 500-F-02-114
and Emergency May 2002
Response (5105) www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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