Brownfields Area-Wide Plannini
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Pilot Project Fact Sheet
Neighborhood Parks Council,
San Francisco, CA
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities,
and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess,
safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A
brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelop-
ment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence
or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or
contaminant. In 2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed to help states and
communities around the country clean up and revitalize brown-
fields sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial assistance to
eligible applicants to assess and clean up brownfield sites.
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot
Program
ERA is piloting an area-wide planning approach to community
brownfield challenges, which recognizes that revitalization of
the area surrounding the brownfield site(s) is just as critical to
the successful reuse of the property as assessment, cleanup,
and redevelopment of an individual site. The pilot program will
help further community-based partnership efforts within un-
derserved or economically disadvantaged neighborhoods by
confronting local environmental and public health challenges
related to brownfields, while creating a planning framework to
advance economic development and job creation.
Pilot Project Description
EPA has selected the Neighborhood Parks Council (NPC)
as a Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot Program recipi-
ent. NPC will facilitate community involvement in area-wide
planning of the Blue Greenway for the revitalization of
the brownfield-impacted community of Southeastern San
Francisco. The Blue Greenway is a 13-mile corridor along
the city's Southeastern waterfront, where open spaces will
be linked together for new recreational opportunities, nature
discovery, and public access to the waterfront. This area
was the industrial heart of the city from the 1850s to the mid-
19003 and included heavy industrial uses, sewer treatment
facilities, and power generation facilities. The area neigh-
Pilot Program Description '
EPA is awarding approximately $4
million in total across 23 recipients.
Recipients will each receive up to
approximately $175,000 in EPA coop-
erative agreement and/or direct technical
assistance. Assistance will help recipients initiate
development of an area-wide plan and identify next
steps and resources needed to implement the plan.
Contacts
For additional information, brownfields news and
events, and publications and links, visit the EPA
Brownfields Web site (http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA's Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization
(202) 566-0633
Assistance Recipient: Neighborhood Parks Council, CA
(415)621-3260
The information presented in this fact sheet comes
from the project proposal; EPA cannot attest to the ac-
curacy of this information. The cooperative agreement
and/or direct technical assistance have not yet been
negotiated. Activities described in this fact sheet are
subject to change.
borhoods are historically underserved and economically
disadvantaged, with a poverty rate of more than 21 percent,
and an unemployment rate of more than 19 percent. The
project area contains at least 12 brownfields near the Blue
Greenway alignment. The NPC has led the effort for a Blue
Greenway Project since 2003. The area-wide planning
process will leverage existing efforts to identify and reduce
threats to human health and the environment, and will facili-
tate assessment and cleanup of brownfields in the target
area by identifying site-specific reuses for brownfield sites.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-10-003C
October 2010
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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