United States
                       Environmental
                       Protection Agency
                       Washington, D.C. 20460
  Solid Waste
  and Emergency
  Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-97-070
May 1997
                       Regional   Brownfields
                       Assessment  Pilot
                                                San  Francisco,  CA
  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. Between 1995 and 1996, EPA funded 76 National and Regional Brownfields
Assessment Pilots, at up to $200,000 each, to support creative two-year explorations and demonstrations of brownfields
solutions. EPAis funding morethan 27 Pilots in 1997. 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 Region 9 selected the City of San Francisco
  for a Regional Brownfields Pilot. The City of San
  Francisco (population 710,000) is targeting the
  South Bayshore area (population 28,000) for revi-
  talization. Demographics of the area include a 13
  percent unemployment rate and a population of 62
  percent African-American, 21 percent Asian/Pa-
  cific Islander, and 9 percent Hispanic. The South
  Bayshore area was a gateway for port activity until
  the U.S.  Navy's nearby Hunters Point Shipyard
  (now a Superfund site) closed in 1974, devastating
  the area's economy. The area has also suffered a
  disproportionate share of the contamination bur-
  den in the City. Known or suspected brownfields
  in the area include 13 hazardous waste sites and 5 8
  leaking underground storage tanks. The Depart-
  ment of Housing and Urban Development has
  designated the area an Enterprise Community.
  Public health, land use, housing, jobs, and prop-
  erty values are documented as significantly below
  the City's averages.
                                                PILOT SNAPSHOT
 San Francisco, California
  Date of Award:
  August 1996

  Amount: $100,000

  Site Profile: The Pilot
  targets the South Bayshore
  community which has 120
  known  brownfield sites
  within  a three mile area.
  These sites are adjacent to
  the Hunters Point  Naval
  Shipyard, a Superfund site
  of 525 acres of waterfront
  property.
Contacts:

Martha Walters
Brownfields Coordinator
San Francisco Redevelopment
Agency
(415)749-2474
    Bobbie Kahan
    U.S. EPA-Region 9
    (415)744-2191
    kahan.bobbie@
    epamail.epa.gov
                                                       Visit the EPA Brownfields Website at:
                                                       http://www.epa.gov/brownfields

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OBJECTIVES

San Francisco's overall aim is to integrate a Risk
Management Plan with land reuse  in the  South
Bayshore area. The objective of the Risk Management
Plan is to develop an area-wide soil and groundwater
cleanup approach and integrate this information with
the redevelopment and reuse  of certain targeted
brownfields in the South Bayshore area.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

The Pilot has:

• Ensured public participation in the decision-making
 process.  Used the Base Closure model of linking
 community members with regulatory and redevel-
 opment agencies, to establish the  Brownfields
 Advisory Board, which is composed of community
 members, governmental agencies, businesses, and
 lenders.  Convened several  times to discuss  the
 project and the community members' involvement
 related to land use, zoning, economic development,
 and environmental justice. Additional community
 representatives will be joining the Board; and

• Begun the process to collect  background
 hydrogeologic data and historical land use informa-
 tion for the area as part of the initial phase of the Risk
 Management Plan.

The Pilot is:

• Continuing the first phase of the Risk Management
 Plan including obtaining and evaluating background
 information on historical land use and gathering the
 existing hydrogeologic data for the area. The area is
 currently a redevelopment survey area, the first step
 in  the  process of being  designated  as a
 Redevelopment Area. The final redevelopment plan
 is expected to be approved in September 1998;

• Continuing to obtain and evaluate background
 information of the areato identify potential chemical
 sources and exposure pathways;

• Developing an areamap illustrating areas of potential
 environmental concerns based on identified potential
 receptors;
Reviewing proposed land uses based on the
information developed through the Redevelopment
Planning Process; and

Conducting risk assessments and fate and transport
modeling to define acceptable  residual levels of
contamination based on proposed zoning and land
use.
 Regional Brownfields Assessment Pilot
 May 1997
                         San Francisco, California
                             EPA 500-F-97-070

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