Brownfields Area-Wide Plannini
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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 of Atlanta as a Brownfields
Area- Wide Planning Pilot Program recipient. The city
is focusing on a 3,282-acre project area in southwest
Atlanta, which consists of five redevelopment locations
within two miles of each other, connected by commercial
and industrial corridors. Nearly 28 percent of project
area's 49,297 residents live below the poverty level, and
unemployment rates are higher than the national average.
From 2006 to 2009, more than 3,500 jobs were lost in the
project area. The area includes at least 25 brownfields,
including a former auto service and repair shop, heavy
Atlanta, GA
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 agreement and/or direct
technical assistance. Assistance will help recipi-
ents 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.aov/brownfieldsy
EPA's Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization
(202) 566-0633
Assistance Recipient: City of Atlanta, GA
(404) 330-6724
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.
industrial facilities, and vacant warehouses. The city has
been involved since 2005 in two redevelopment plans
that identified the need and provided the framework for
future area-wide brownfield planning in the project area.
The area-wide plan will be the critical next step in coordi-
nating community involvement around the assessment,
cleanup, and reuse of brownfields in the project area,
helping to anchor the area's commercial, industrial,
residential, and greenspace redevelopment.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA560-F-10-003F
October 2010
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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