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United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-98-197
July 1998
Assessment
Demonstration Pilot
Southeast Florida
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. Since 1995, EPA has funded more than 200 Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilots, at up to $200,000 each, to support creative two-year explorations and demonstrations of
brownfields solutions. The Pilots 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 Southeast Florida, encompassing
the eastern portions of Palm Beach, Broward, and
Miami-Bade Counties, for a Brownfields Pilot. The
Pilot designation follows as part of EPA's commitment
to Southeast Florida as a Brownfields Showcase
Community. The Eastward Ho! Brownfields
Partnership, which oversees the Pilot, is comprised of
local, State,regional,andFederalgovernmentagencies,
as well as public, private, and non-profit community
organizations in southeast Florida. The Eastward Ho!
Initiative was established in 1995 to direct future
growth to the region's urban core and away from the
threatened Everglades ecosystem to the west.
Because contaminated lands are a significant barrier
to redevelopment in the Eastward Ho! corridor, the
identification, assessment, cleanup, revitalization, and
redevelopment of brownfields on a regional scale is
essential to the Eastward Ho! strategy.
The Eastward Ho! corridor spans approximately 115
miles along the eastern portions of Palm Beach,
Broward, and Miami-Bade Counties, with a combined
population of more than 2 million. While the entire
corridor is not characterized by poverty, it contains
pockets of some of the most severe poverty in the
country. Three State-de signaled Enterprise Zones
fall within the corridor, and much of the Miami-Bade
County portion of the corridor is within a Federally
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Date of Announcement:
July 1998
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot targets
brownfields along a 115 mile-
corridor on the eastern portions of
Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-
Dade Counties.
Southeast Florida
Contacts:
Eastward Ho!
Brownfields Partnership
(954)985-4416
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 4
(404) 562-8661
Visit the EPA Region 4 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region4/wastepgs/brownfpgs/bf.htm
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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designated Enterprise Community. The corridor,
which developed along two railroad tracks, contains
more than 2,100 known contaminated sites, varying
widely in size, and degree and type of contamination.
Miami-Bade and Broward Counties have completed
databases of known contaminated lands; Palm Beach
County is developing similar information.
OBJECTIVES
The Eastward Ho! Partnership offers a model of how
a regional coalition can accomplish environmental
restoration and urban revitalization in a highly
fragmented administrative structure. A three-pronged
approach of collaboration, strategy, and action will
allow the Partnership to address regional brownfields
issues. Rehabilitation and redevelopment projects
will feature sustainable reuse, including mixed-income
housing, sound urban design principles, and bicycle,
transit, and pedestrian friendly development.
Establishing replicability, and taking advantage of
existing financial tools (including the Federal
Brownfields Tax Incentive and streamlined
governmental processes for brownfields
redevelopment) are priorities for the Partnership.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
•Leveraging the Eastward Ho! Brownfields
Partnership' s designation as a Brownfields Showcase
Community to form new Federal partnerships,
encouraging sustainable reuse of brownfields
properties;
• Developing mechanisms for corridor communities
to easily access the Federal Brownfields Tax
Incentive;
• Working with Federal, State, and local agencies to
develop standard guidelines and processes for working
with brownfields, and publishing these models for
streamlining permitting and otherprocesses for use by
communities across the country; and
• Establishing a computerized regional inventory of
brownfields properties, integrated with socio-
economic, health, and transportation data properties.
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
July 1998
Southeast Florida
EPA 500-F-98-197
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