United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-00-016
April 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
<&EPA BrownfieldsSupplemental
Assistance
Emeryville, CA
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
EPA awarded the City of Emeryville supplemental
assistance for its Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot and additional funding for
assessments at Brownfields properties to be used for
greenspace purposes. Historically, heavy industry
was the predominant land use in the city, but the
majority of the companies left the area in the 1970s.
Nearly half of the city's 7,400 residents are low-
income, and more than half are minorities. Most of
the city's poor live in neighborhoods bordered by
brownfields. Although there is demandforresidential
and commercial development, the cost and risk
associated with these brownfields have impeded their
redevelopment.
Under the original Pilot, the city took a variety of
measures to prepare parcels for redevelopment. These
measures include the development of a groundwater
management plan designed to protect public health,
deep groundwater resources, and the ecological
resources of San Francisco Bay while providing
regulatory relief and more cost certainty for property
owners and developers. In addition, the city has
streamlined the land development process by
incorporating the environmental sign-off process
within the normal planning approval process. The city
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Emeryville, California
Date of Announcement:
March 2000
Amount: $150,000
Greenspace: $50,000
Profile: The Pilot will convert rail
spurs and vacant parcels into green
space and perform environmental
assessments in select areas of the
city, while also preparing
brownfieldsfor redevelopment by
addressing city-wide groundwater
issues and improving property
information services.
Contacts:
City of Emeryville
(510)596-4356
(510)658-8095
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 9
(415)744-2237
Visit the EPA Region 9 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/index.html
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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also developed a "one-stop shop" Internet-based
database of environmental and general parcel
information for prospective developers. However,
additional funds are required to complete the
implementation of the city'sgroundwater management
plan, augment the "one-stop shop" database, and
perform assessments for the expansion of the city's
greenspace resources.
OBJECTIVES
Emeryville' s brownfield program is an integral part of
its groundwater management plan. Through these
coordinated efforts and with this supplemental
assistance, the city's goal is to facilitate cleanup and
redevelopment of all brownfields in the city, not just
individual sites. In addition, through the greenspace
assistance, the city will address three areas for
greenway and park creation—Doyle Street
Greenway, Park Avenue Park, and Community
Garden Park.
To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:
• Continue work on the city-wide groundwater
monitoring project that began under the original
Pilot;
• Augment the institutional control features of the
city's "one-stop shop" Internet-based database of
parcel information;
• Initiate a consensus-building process and conduct
risk analysis regarding water quality management in
the city;
• Perform environmental assessments in the West
Park Avenue area; and
• Facilitate greenspace in three targeted areas through
environmental assessments, community involvement,
and preliminary design plan.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
Brownfields Supplemental Assistance Emeryville, California
April 2000 EPA 500-F-00-016
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