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                           Supplemental Assistance
                           City of Clearwater,  FL
BACKGROUND

EPA awarded the  City of Clearwater supplemental
assistance for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration
Pilot. Clearwater (population 109,000) is located on the
western shore of Tampa Bay on Florida's Gulf Coast. The
city' s brownfields activities focus on a conglomeration of
small industrial, commercial, and residential properties
that were built on the fill of former wetlands  as part of
urbanredevelopment activities40years ago. Alarge-scale
exodus of businesses away from an area now  known as
the Clearwater Brownfields Area (CBA) has contributed
to urban decline. The 1,800-acre CBA, which contains
222 brownfields, is located in a state-designated Enterprise
Zone. Thirty-three percent of residents in the surrounding
neighborhoods live below the poverty level, and the area
accounts for more than 60 percent of the city's crime.

The original  Clearwater Pilot  began assessment and
outreach activities in the CBA, including development of
a strategic environmental justice plan. Additional funding
is needed to continue efforts to revitalize this critical area
in the heart of the city. Supplemental funding will be used
to assess a 3.5-acre automotive salvage yard and a former
printing press operation near the Town Pond/City Center
Park Project. Funds also will be used for redevelopment
planning for a site that is proposed for reuse as a 10,000-
square-foot office complex.

OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

Clearwater is working to eliminate potential health and
safety hazards by cleaning up CBA sites and returning
them to productive reuse for the benefit of the city and its
citizens. The city already has used Pilot funds to assess
over 22 properties in the CBA.  Clearwater will use the
supplemental assistance to continue conducting Phase I
and Phase II environmental site assessments and developing
Quality Assurance Project Plans at high priority sites. The
city has identified an auto salvage yard, a former printing
   PILOT SNAPSHOT
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     City of Clearwater, Florida
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Date of Announcement:
May 2002

Amount: $150,000

Profile: The Pilot targets
potentially contaminated
propertieswithinthe1,800-acre
Clearwater Brownfields Area
(CBA) located in the heartof the
city for assessment and
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redevelopment planning.
   Contacts:

   Clearwater City Manager's
   Office
   (757)562-4048
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA Region 4
(404)562-8661
        Visit the E PA Region 4 Brownfields web site at:
       http://www.epa.gov/region4/waste/bf/index.htm

      Forfurtherinformation,includingspecific Pilot contacts,
    additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
    publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
              www.epa.gov/brownfields
press, and a site marked for redevelopment as an office
complex as the target sites for these additional assessments.

Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Developing reuse plans for selected sites in the CBA;

• Performing Phase  I and II assessments on targeted
  sites;

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• Preparing site-specific Quality Assurance ProjectPlans
  and health and safety plans for targeted sites; and

• Conducting  outreach and community involvement
  activities.

Thecooperativeagreementforthis Pilot hasnotyetbeen negotiated; therefore,
activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
                                                                 Solid Waste             EPA 500-F-02-088
                                                                 and Emergency          May 2002
                                                                 Response (5105)        www.epa.gov/brownfields/

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