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Pilot Project Fact Sheet
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communi-
ties, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent,
assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brown-
fields. A brownfield 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. 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 brownfields sites. Un-
der this law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible
applicants to assess and clean up brownfield sites.
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot
Program
EPA is piloting an area-wide planning approach to com-
munity 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 underserved or economically
disadvantaged neighborhoods by confronting local envi-
ronmental and public health challenges related to brown-
fields, while creating a planning framework to advance
economic development and job creation.
Pilot Project Description
EPA has selected the City and County of Denver as a
Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Pilot Program recipient.
Denver is targeting the South Platte River Brownfields
Area, a quarter-mile buffer along the 10.9-mile river that
encompasses approximately 2,040 acres. Within the project
area, there are 33 brownfields, coal-fired power plants,
and railway corridors. It is home to 88,512 residents. The
river bisects the city and flows through 14 neighborhoods.
Nearly all of these neighborhoods are more disadvantaged
than the city as a whole, and have a higher concentration
of minority residents. Denver and the Greenway Foundation
Denver, CO
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 cooperative agree-
ment 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: City and County of Denver, CO
(720) 865-5438
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.
have partnered since the 1970s to clean up industrial sites
along the South Platte River, and since 2008, in planning
efforts to turn the area into a greenway and waterfront
through a River Vision Implementation Plan. The area-wide
planning process will identify and prioritize brownfield
cleanup projects, assess appropriate land uses for properties,
and work with property owners to gather environmen-
tal information. Development of the South Platte River
Brownfields Area Plan is expected to contain a systematic
framework for the assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment
of brownfield sites.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-10-003E
October 2010
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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