United States
                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C. 20460
 Solid Waste
 and Emergency
 Response (5101)
 EPA 500-F-00-050
 April 2000
 www.epa.gov/brownfields/
   &EPA  BrownfieldsSupplemental
                   Assistance
                                                                 St.  Louis,  MO
 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 St. Louis supplemental
assistance for  its Brownfields  Assessment
Demonstration Pilot. Overthepast45 years, the City
of St. Louis has lost half of its j obs and two-thirds of
its population to areas outside St. Louis.  This has
resulted in urban decay and a substantial reduction in
the city's tax base. The city's Land Redevelopment
Authority has inventoried more than 9,000 vacant
sites and 2,500 abandoned buildings. Many of the
vacant sites are brownfields for which the city lacks
the resources for  assessment and cleanup.

OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

The Pilot will use supplemental assistance to expand
St. Louis' s brownfields initiative to the NorthRiverfront
Industrial Corridor.  The four-mile-long industrial
corridor, located immediately north of downtown St.
Louis, contains more than 1,400 parcels of land, 630
businesses, several dozen households, a river port,
and an unknown number of brownfields.  The goal of
the Pilot is to encourage redevelopment of properties
in the area that have been abandoned and remain
undeveloped  because  of real  or  perceived
environmental contamination.
PILOT  SNAPSHOT
  St. Louis, Missouri
  Date of Announcement:
  March 2000

  Amount: $100,000

  Profile: The Pilot will target
  the four-mile-long North
  Riverfront Industrial Corridor,
  an old industrial section of
  St. Louis that is a major
  focus of the city's economic
  development initiative.
Contacts:
Planned Industrial
 Expansion Authority
St. Louis Development
 Corporation
(314)259-3454
     Visit the EPA Region 7 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region07/specinit/brown/brownfields.htm
Regional Brown fields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 7
(913)551-7786
   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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To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:

• Conduct an area-wide characterization to identify
 potential brownfields within the corridor;

• Develop a Geographic Information System (GIS)
 database and map of the Pilot area to help identify
 potential brownfields and develop reuse plans for
 the area;

• Conduct Phase I and Phase II site assessments on
 properties targeted for development by the private
 sector or a government agency; and

• Conduct public outreach for corridor residents and
 businesses that will include holding public meetings
 and distributing Pilot information materials.
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                                                        St. Louis, Missouri
 April 2000                                                                             EPA 500-F-00-050

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