What Benefits to Expect from the TBA?
The TBA program provides assessment services only. This program does
not provide funds to conduct cleanup activities. Communities
participating in a TBA will receive a written report detailing the findings
of the Phase I or Phase IIESA. The reportsare intended to help meet due
diligence requirements of real estate transfer, and to identify
environmental impediments to redevelopment.
A Phase I ESA includes background and historical investigations, a
site/area walkthrough inspection, interviews with landowners and
neighbors, and a written report. A Phase II ESA includes sampling to
identify the types, concentrations, and areas of potential contamination.
Cleanup cost estimates and other technical reports such as health and
ecological risk assessments can also be performed underthis program.
Soil samples collected at automobile facility
What are The Criteria For Selection?
• Community need
• Ability to leverage resources for redevelopment
• Sustainable reuse of brownfields
• Site access availability
• Job creation
• Reduction of threats to human health and the environment
• Time-critical needs
• Use of energy efficiency and green building techniques
• Use of alternative and renewable energy sources
• Who is not eligible
- Private individuals/parties
How Long Does the Process Take?
From application submittal until work begins: 6-10 weeks.
How to Apply?
Any interested entities can fill out an application online at
www.epa.aov/reaionQ9/waste/brown/pdf/application%2Qform%2Qfin
al%2Q3.pdf. The application is interactive and can be submitted by
email. Before you begin filling out the application, make sure you have
thefollowingproperty-specificinformation:
• Assessor's parcel number
• Ad dress of the site
• Current owner's name, business address, and phone number
• Currentzoning
• Total acreage
• Numberandsizeofbuildings
• Physical condition of buildings (useable, fire damaged, foundation
only, partially razed, etc.)
• Permission to access property
• Site use chronological history, including former site operations,
processes, and any associated use of hazardoussubstances
• Plan for redevelopment
• Financing for redevelopment
• Any involvement from the EPA, state, or local agencies to conduct an
assessment or cleanup
• Conclusion sections of any previous site assessment reports
• Any involvement of state or local agencies
Contact:
Carolyn Douglas, Brownfields Program
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
75 Hawthorne Street, SFD-1-1
San Francisco, CA 94105
douglas.carolyn@epa.gov
www.epa.gov/region9/brownfields
TARGETED
BROWNFIELDS
ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
What is a Targeted Brownfields Assessment?
A Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA) is an all-appropriate
inquiry Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) or Phase II
ESA designed to document environmental conditions at a property
under consideration for redevelopment.
EPA and environmental consultants contracted to EPA will conduct
theTBA. TheTBA program is offered by EPA at no cost to public and
non-profit entities interested in redeveloping abandoned or
underutilized property that may be contaminated by hazardous
substances, petroleum, drug laboratories, or mining wastes.
Who is Eligible to Apply?
Eligible applicants for the TBA program include non-profit and
public entities such as cities, tribes, redevelopment agencies, or
community development corporations that have development
plans for re-use of properties with suspected or known
environmental contamination.
EPA Region 9
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Background
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), Region IX, has
initiated a program to help
municipalities and non-profits
redevelop property that may be
contaminated. Region IX is
accepting applications under the
Targeted Brownfields Assessment
(TEA) program to conduct
environmental assessments on
Brownfields properties of
interest to municipalities or
non-profits in Arizona,
California, Hawaii, Nevada, Guam,
and on tribal lands.
The program is voluntary and is
designed to evaluate
environmental conditions at
Brownfields properties as a step
towards cleanup and redevelopment
of these properties. These
assessments will determine the
nature and extent of
contamination, and may provide
preliminary cost estimates for
cleaning up the property.
This brochure describes
eligibility requirements and
instructions for obtaining an
application for assistance under
the TEA Program.
TBA Success Stories
The EPA is currently installing perimeter groundwater monitoring wells
at an unexploded ordnance open detonation pit in Saipan. The EPA will
establish baseline groundwater conditions. Ongoing monitoring
operations will be conducted by the Department of Environmental
Quality (DEQ) to detect any releases to groundwater. Groundwater is
being modified to ensure water quality for a future 500 homestead
development.
Saipan UXO
In support of the Tres Rios River Restoration Project on the Southwest
side of Phoenix, Arizona, the EPA funded a TBA to investigate
groundwater and subsurface waste characterization in the area of a
closed municipal landfill. The assessment will assist the City and
stakeholders with restoring the urban Tres Rios river, primarily for
ecological integrity, including restoration of native riparian habitat and
improvementof water quality.
Tres Rios River Restoration Project
The EPA conducted a subsurface investigation at the Los Angeles
Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse (LA CADA). There was concern
regarding hazardous substances intruding into the building, based
on historical operations on the property and reference to the
presence of historical underground storage tanks (LISTs). The
subsurface investigation consisted of a geophysical survey to
locate the LIST, subsurface soil sampling, and soil vapor
sampling. Once the Brownfield cleanup is complete, LA CADA will
expand their current patient facilities.
LA CADA
The EPA conducted a subsurface sampling in support of the
Friendship House as part of Native American redevelopment
activities in San Francisco, California. The EPAsampling results were
provided to the developers, who were then able to make informed
design decisions. The result was the creation of an expanded
building with increased community services.
Tres Rios River Restoration Project
Friendship House
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