United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-00-052
April 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
<&EPA Brownfields Supplemental
Assistance
Stockton, 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 Stockton supplemental
assistance for its Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot and additional funding for
assessments at brownfields properties and to be used
for greenspace purposes. Many old shipyards, heavy
manufacturing mills, and industrial sites, along
Stockton's waterfront have been abandoned,
contributing to unemployment and poverty in the Pilot
area. The threat of contamination and liability has
inhibited reuse and redevelopment at these sites,
while suburban has sprawl expanded. During the last
25 years, the city's redevelopment agency has been
acquiring many of the abandoned properties in the
waterfront area, nearly all of which are potentially
contaminated. The city is particularly concerned with
theproperties in the state-designated Enterprise Zone,
where contamination could present an additional
obstacle to economic revitalization.
Stockton received an EPA Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot grant in 1996. Through this
grant, many environmental hurdles and barriers have
been removed and significant redevelopment is
becoming a reality. However, much work remains to
be done, and EPA is providing Stockton with
supplemental assistance to its original Brownfields
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Stockton, California
Date of Announcement:
March 2000
Amount: $150,000
Greenspace: $50,000
Profile: The Pilot will
support ongoing efforts to
revitalize Stockton's
waterfront district,
including a greenspace
creation element.
Contacts:
City of Stockton
Department of Housing and
Urban Development
(209)937-8811
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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Pilot in order to maintain revitalization momentum.
OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
The focus of Stockton's brownfields effort is to
encourage economic revitalization of the urban
waterfront area. Redevelopment of the waterfront
will promote productive land use, reduce air and
water pollution associated with urban sprawl, and
expand job opportunities in locations accessible to
low-income populations. To satisfy these objectives,
the supplemental assistance to the pilot will support
additional site assessments of both publicly and
privately owned waterfront properties. This will
allow the City of Stockton to fill in the gaps between
maj or waterfront redevelopment proj ects and maintain
revitalization momentum.
In addition, Stockton has been selected by EPA to
receive assistance for greenspace activities. The
Pilot will facilitate the completion of the waterfront
promenade and the Weber Point property, both critical
to the recreational, and commercial success of the
adjacent waterfront development.
To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:
• Conduct additional environmental assessments on
targeted waterfront properties;
• Revise the outreach strategy and implement the
stakeholder involvement plan for the targeted area;
and
• Conduct assessments and develop cleanup and
reuse plans for the two areas targeted for greenspace
purposes.
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 Stockton, California
April 2000 EPA 500-F:-00-052
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