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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