United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105)
EPA 500-F-01-308
April 2001
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v>EPA Brownfields Supplemental
Assistance
Clinton, IA
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 worktogether in atimelymannerto prevent, assess, and safely clean up brownfieldsto promote
their sustainable reuse. Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion
or redevelopment is complicated by real orperceivedenvironmentalcontamination.EPAisfunding: assessment demonstration
pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years, with additional funding provided for greenspace), to test
assessment models and facilitate coordinated assessment and cleanup efforts at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels;
and job training pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities
affected by brownfieldsto facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and preparetraineesforfuture employment intheenvironmental
field; and, a cleanup revolving loan fund program (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years) to provide financial assistance
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
EPA has selected the City of Clinton to receive
supplemental assistance for its Brownfields
Assessment Demonstration Pilot. Clinton's
population (approximately 29,000) has been declining
steadily for years. The economic problems caused
by the city's population loss were compounded by
Union Pacific Railroad's decision to close its repair
and maintenance facility in south Clinton, resulting in
the loss of 250 jobs. The 100-year-old repair and
maintenance facility is part of the area's extensive
industrial history that is a cause for concerns about
environmental contamination. As the city looks for
land forfuture industrial development, itis limited to
active farmland, vacant land in residential areas, and
the brownfields areas.
The Pilotwill target Liberty Square, a 220-acre area
located within a state-designated enterprise zone.
Liberty Square's 3,520 residents have a per capita
income of $9,281, and 17 percent of families are
living below the national poverty level. The area's
unemployment rate is 15 percent. The Liberty
Square area includes a 40-acre rail yard, a solid
waste transfer station, and former retail and
manufacturing facilities. The area contains several
hundred thousand square feet of abandoned and
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Clinton, Iowa
Date of Award: April 2001
Amount: $150,000
Profile: The Pilot will target
the 220-acre Liberty Square
area, located withinastate-
designated enterprise zone,
for Phase I and Phase II
environmental assessments,
continuing the activities of
the original Pilot.
Contacts:
City of Clinton
Public Works Office
(319)242-0261
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 7
(913)551-7719
Visit the EPA Region 7 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region07/specinit/brown/brownfields.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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unused building space. Fear of environmental
contamination has hindered development in the target
area and on adjacent properties. The Liberty Square
brownfields are located less than one-half mile from
the Mississippi River. The Pilot's efforts complement
the city's broader land use planning efforts, which
include the city's formal land use plan for Liberty
Square. The city is also working with the Iowa
Departmentof Transportation to include infrastructure
improvements in the redevelopment plans.
OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
The original Pilot conducted Phase I environmental
assessments on 36 percent of the targeted sites. The
Pilot will use supplemental funding to double that
figure with a second round of Phase I assessments in
addition to Phase II assessments to be carried out on
selected sites. The city's objective remains the same
to remove concerns over real and perceived
contamination in the target area through assessment
and cleanup of brownfields to facilitate the
redevelopment of the Liberty Square area.
The Pilot plans to:
Conduct community outreach to enhance the
participation of residents, property owners, partners,
and other stakeholders in the brownfields project;
Conduct a second round of Phase I environmental
assessments on sites originally targeted by the Pilot;
After the Phase I assessments have been completed
on those sites, rank the sites for Phase II assessment
prioritization; and
Conduct Phase II environmental assessments of the
prioritized sites.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this tact sheet are subject to change.
Brownfields Supplemental Assistance
April2001
Clinton, Iowa
EPA 500-F-01-308
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