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                           Brownfields
                           Supplemental Assistance
                           City of Coralville, IA
BACKGROUND

EPA awarded the City of Coralville supplemental assistance
for  its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot.
With the steady decline of industrial land use in Coralville
(population 15,000), urban sprawl onto greenfields has
occurred at an alarming rate, allowing Coralville's First
Avenue Commercial/Industrial Area to deteriorate. The
200-acre, riverfront Old Industrial Park,  which is the
target of the Pilot, provides access to Interstate 80 by way
of First Avenue. Historically, the Pilot area has been used
as a municipal landfill, coal storage area, asphalt plant,
railroad yard, automotive and trucking repair business, and
waste transfer station.

Phase I environmental assessments completed through
the  original EPA Pilot confirmed  perceptions of
contaminationin the industrial parkandled to the completion
of three Phase II environmental assessments. Supplemental
funding  will  increase the number of  new properties
receiving Phase I and II environmental assessments and
expand the Phase II assessments on a former rail yard,
coal storage area, former truckstop, and landfill area. By
assessing potential threats to public  health  and the
environment and promoting increased enrollment of target
area properties in the Pilot program, the city hopes to spur
redevelopment of old industrial properties, curb sprawl,
and preserve farmland, the mainstay of Iowa's economy.

OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

Coralville's objective is to eliminate any real or perceived
environmental impairments in the 200-acre Old Industrial
Park, which borders the First  Avenue Corridor.
Supplemental assistance will be used to enlist community
support and complete environmental site assessments of
impaired properties in the industrial park, which are critical
to making the sites attractive at a time of growing demand
forcommercial,lightindustrial,andretaillandinCoralville.
   PILOT SNAPSHOT
    City of Coralville,
    Iowa
Date of Announcement:
May 2002


Amount: $100,000

Profile: The Pilot targets
brownfields sites in the 200-acre
First Avenue Commercial/
Industrial Area that is part of
Coralville's First Avenue
Revitalization project.
   Contacts:

   City of Coralville
   (319)351-5915
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA Region 7
(913)551-7532
        Visit the E PA Region 7 Brownfields web site at:
        http://www.epa.gov/region07/brownfields/

      Forfurther information, including specific Pilot contacts,
    additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
    publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
             www.epa.gov/brownfields
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Expanding public outreach to identify and enroll new
  sites into the program, leverage support, and engage
  affected communities in the First Avenue area;

• Conducting Phase I environmental assessments on up to
  ten properties identified through public outreach; and

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• Conducting up to three new Phase II environmental
  assessments on properties newly prioritized, amending
  a Phase II assessment on the former rail yard and coal
  storage areas, and conducting Phase III assessments at
  two sites.

ThecooperativeagreementforthisPilothasnotyetbeennegotiated;therefore,
activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
                                                               Solid Waste            EPA 500-F-02-106
                                                               and Emergency         May 2002
                                                               Response (5105)       www.epa.gov/brownfields/

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