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Brownfields 2004
Grant Fact Sheet
Sacramento County
Business
Environmental
Resource Center, CA
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders in economic development
to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up,
and sustainably reuse brownfields. Abrownfield site is
real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse
of which may be complicated by the presence or
potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant,
or contaminant. On January 11, 2002, the President
signed into law the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields
Law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible
applicants through four competitive grant programs:
assessment grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup
grants, and job training grants. Additionally, funding
support is provided to state and tribal response pro-
grams through a separate mechanism.
Community Description
The Sacramento County Business Environmental
Resource Center was selected to receive a
brownfields assessment grant. The areas targeted for
the grant include the city-designated redevelopment
neighborhoods of Alkali Flat (44 percent minority), Del
Paso Heights (74 percent minority), North Sacramento
(77 percent minority), Oak Park (87 percent minority),
and parts of South Sacramento (72 percent minority), as
well as 18 aging commercial corridors. Del Paso Heights,
North Sacramento, Oak Park, and South Sacramento are
federal Enterprise Zones. Because Sacramento was
Assessment Grant
$200,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the Sacramento County Busi-
ness Environmental Resource Center for an area-
wide brownfields assessment grant. Grant funds
will be used to identify and prioritize brownfields in
five neighborhoods and 18 commercial corridors.
Up to 20 Phase I and five Phase II assessments
will be performed at high priority sites as part of
this effort. The center also is planning outreach
activities that include community workshops and a
small business counseling program focusing on
redeveloped brownfield sites
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant
contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
news and events, and publications and links, visit
the EPA Brownfields web site at: www.epa.gov/
brownfields.
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Team
415-972-3188
http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/
Grant Recipient: Sacramento County Business
Environmental Resource Center, CA
916-364-4110
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
never a large industrial center, most of its brownfields are
associated with commercial, smaller industrial, and
transportation facilities that were abandoned or underused
following the closing of nearby McClellan Air Force Base
and the diversion of traffic from nearby neighborhoods
following completion of Highway 99. These communities
are challenged by declining housing stocks, poverty rates
as high as 39 percent, unemployment rates ranging from
5.7 percent to nearly 11 percent, substance abuse prob-
lems, and crime.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-04-190
June 2004
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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