United States
                      Environmental
                      Protection Agency
                      Washington, D.C. 20460
  Solid Waste
  and Emergency
  Response (5101)
EPA500-F-00-145
May 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
 <>EPA     Brownfields  Cleanup
                      Revolving  Loan  Fund   Pilot
                            Coalition: The State of Oregon, City of Coos Bay,
                                            and Tri-County Metro Transit District
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5105)
                      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. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two
years), to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models; job training pilot  programs (each funded
up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities affected by brownfields to facilitate cleanup
of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental field; and, cleanup revolving loan fund
programs (each funded up to $500,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds to make loans for the environmental cleanup
of brownfields. These pilot programs 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

The Oregon Economic and Community Development
Department (OECDD) BCRLF is  a coalition of the
State of Oregon, the City of Coos Bay, and the Tri-
County Metro Transit District (Tri-Met). Many Oregon
communities are  dependent  on timber harvest
operations  that have been scaled back dramatically.
Several of these communities encompass former mill
sites with redevelopment barriers. The State now has
a 13 percent poverty rate. Coos Bay, in particular, has
recently fallen on hard times as timber, fishing,  and
mining resource industries  have declined. It has  a
poverty rate of  17 percent.  The Tri-Met area (in the
north/northeast sections of Portland) includes portions
of seven neighborhoods and has a combined poverty
rate of 21 percent. EPA has  awarded four Brownfield
Assessment Pilots in Oregon as well as one Showcase
Community.

BCRLF OBJECTIVES

The goal  of the OECDD  BCRLF is  to promote
brownfield redevelopment throughout the State and to
create  a program that will be  competitive with
commercial sources.  Targeted communities include
those that are economically distressed, have a high
PILOT SNAPSHOT
                      Date of Announcement:
                      May 2000

                      Amount: $1,500,000

                      BCRLF Target Area:
                      Communities in State of
                      Oregon, Coos Bay, and
                      Tri-Met
                      Coalition: The State of
Oregon, City of Coos Bay,
and Tri-County Metro Transit District
Contacts:

State of Oregon Economic and
Community Development
Department
(503)986-0102
Region 10 BCRLF
Coordinator

(206) 553-6523
      Visit the EPA Region 10 Brownfields web site at:
     www.epa.gov/region10/waste/brown/index.htm

For further information, including specific Pilot contacts, additional
 Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and publications
      and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
          http://www.epa.gov/brownfields

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percentage  of disadvantaged  populations,  or have
environmental justice concerns.

FUND STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS

The Oregon Economic and Community Development
Department will  serve  as lead agency and fund
manager.  The  State Department of Environmental
Quality will serve as site manager.  One-third of the
coalition funding will be available for loans for cleanup
of brownfields  that have  been assessed and need
cleanup anywhere in the State.  The remainder of the
funding will be evenly divided between Coos Bay and
Tri-Met for brownfields cleanups. It is estimated that
four BCRLF loans will be made annually and loan sizes
will range between $50,000 and $200,000.

LEVERAGING OTHER RESOURCES

The State intends to coordinate the BCRLF with other
State and Federal funding  programs to ensure funds
from any program having the potential as a brownfields
redevelopment  source  are  used  efficiently  and
conserved appropriately.   The BCRLF program also
will be used in concert with a newly established state
program that  makes loans available for brownfields
assessment work.  Other funding sources include the
US Department of Housing and Urban Development's
Community Development Block Grant program.   A
BCRLF award could provide the impetus for Oregon's
brownfields program to incorporate the Federal income
tax credit program into its  overall funding assistance
efforts.  The  OECDD   will   provide  additional
contributions to the BCRLF in the form of personnel.
Use of BCRLF Pilot funds must be in accordance with
CERCLA, and all CERCLA restrictions on use of funding
also apply to BCRLF funds.
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilot                                                       State of Oregon
May 2000	EPA 500-F-00-145

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