United States
                      Environmental
                      Protection Agency
                      Washington, D.C.  20460
  Solid Waste
  and Emergency
  Response (5101)
EPA500-F-00-158
May 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
      EPA      Brownfields  Cleanup
                       Revolving   Loan  Fund   Pilot
                                                                   Roseville,  MN
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

Roseville is situated at the northern borders of St. Paul
and Minneapolis. In this area, approximately 13 percent
of the residents live below the poverty level. Federal
deregulation of the trucking industry in 1980 resulted
in trucking terminals located in Roseville reducing or
moving their operations. In response, the City set up a
tax   increment  financing  district  to  help  fund
redevelopment. The redevelopment area of Twin Lakes
includes 168 acres of underutilized and deteriorating
industrial properties. To date, 58 sites (or 113 acres)
have been  redeveloped.  The City of Roseville is a
Brownfields Assessment Pilot.

BCRLF OBJECTIVES

The BCRLF goals are to:

•  Provide incentives for remediation of
   contamination;

•  Develop funding strategies to encourage lending
   institutions to participate in environmental
   cleanup projects;

•  Create a funding source for cleanup;
PILOT SNAPSHOT
                  Date of Announcement:
                  May 2000

                  Amount: $500,000

                  BCRLF Target Area:
                  Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area
Roseville, Minnesota
Contacts:

Roseville Community
Development Department
(651)490-2241
 Region 5 BCRLF
 Coordinator
 (312)886-7576
      Visit the EPA Region 5 Brownfields web site at:
     www.epa.gov/region05/waste/brown/index.htm

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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•   Provide a funding option for cleanup of the Twin
    Lakes Parkway right-of-way; and
•   Provide a funding mechanism to access
    Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic
    Development grants.

Roseville's  BCRLF will target the Twin Lakes
Redevelopment Area with priority given to those
properties that affect  the proposed Twin Lakes
Parkway's right-of-way.

FUND STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS

The City of Roseville will act as lead agency and fund
manager.  Working  closely   with  the  Minnesota
Pollution Control  Agency through its  Voluntary
Investigation  and  Cleanup Program,  the  City of
Roseville also will serve as site manager.

LEVERAGING OTHER RESOURCES

The City of  Roseville is currently  working with the
following organizations to identify appropriate sources
and uses of funds for redevelopment in Twin Lakes: the
US Department of Housing and Urban Development;
Ryan  Companies; the  Metropolitan  Council;  the
Minnesota  Department  of  Trade and  Economic
Development;  the  Ramsey  County  Economic
Development Department; and the Minnesota Pollution
Control  Agency.  The  City  of Roseville also is
facilitating private sector involvement through a tax
increment financing district.
Use of BCRLF Pilot funds must be in accordance with
CERCLA, and all CERCLA restrictions on use of funding
also apply to BCRLF funds.
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilot                                                   Roseville, Minnesota
May 2000	EPA 500-F-00-158

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