&EPA
                   United States
                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C. 20460
                           Solid Waste
                           and Emergency
                           Response (5101)
      EPA 500-F-98-164
      May 1998
                                Assessment
Demonstration  Pilot
                            Port of Seattle, WA
  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 150 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 the Port of Seattle for a Brownfields
Pilot.  The Pilot focuses on the 970-acre Ballard
Interbay Northend Manufacturing  and  Industrial
Center (BINMIC), which was established to ensure
that adequate accessible industrial land  would be
available to promote a diversified employment base.
BINMIC is home to more than 1,000 businesses and
16,000 employees.  Along with the  Environmental
Impact Statement, the BINMIC Industrial Area Plan
is the nation's first comprehensive blueprint for
industrial sustainability in an urban setting.

BINMIC faces major challenges. Rising land prices
and uncertainty regarding long-term cleanup liability
threaten BINMIC's ability to clean up brownfields
and remain an industrial area. The need  for scarce
expansion space has forced successful businesses to
move out of BINMIC. The Pilot is designed to stop
the exodus of expanding business and ensure growth
within BINMIC by determining soil cleanup levels
that are tiedto state-approved presumptive remedies.
This will introduce certainty into developers' estimates
of cleanup costs, which will facilitate the cleanup and
reuse of BINMIC brownfields.
                             PILOT SNAPSHOT
                            Port of Seattle, Washington
                                                Date of Announcement:
                                                May 1998

                                                Amount: $200,000

                                                Profile: The Pilot targets
                                                the 970-acre Ballard
                                                Interbay Northend
                                                Manufacturing and
                                                Industrial Center
                                                (BINMIC).
                           Contacts:

                           Port of Seattle
                           (206) 728-3731
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 10
(206) 553-6523
                                Visit the EPA Region 10 Brownfields web site at:
                               http://epainotes1.rtpnc.epa.gov:7777/r10/
                                 cleanup.nsf/webpage/Brownfields

                              Forfurtherinformation, 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 objective of the BINMIC Industrial Area Plan is
to facilitate the cleanup, redevelopment, and reuse of
historic BINMIC industrial properties to  retain
industries and add 3,800 family-wage jobs by the year
2014. The Brownfields Pilot will supportthis obj ective
by determining industrial-based soil cleanup levels for
BINMIC brownfields,  linking them to specific,
ecologically-sound presumptive remedies, and thus
provide property owners with more certainty in
estimating cleanup costs.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Assessing the nature and extent of contamination at
  BINMIC properties;

• Comparing  representative  site  conditions to
  appropriate cleanup technologies;

• Compiling and obtaining state approval of aconditions
  checklist for site cleanup activities;

• Conducting community outreach through newsletters
  and workshops; and

• Documenting local community concerns.

This project will foster a unique partnership between
the Port of Seattle, City of Seattle, the Neighborhood
Business Council, community groups, the state, and
the EPA.

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                                       Port of Seattle, Washington
  May 1998                                                                       EPA500-F-98-164

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