United States
                      Environmental
                      Protection Agency
                      Washington, D.C. 20460
  Solid Waste
  and Emergency
  Response (5101)
 EPA 500-F-97-068
 May 1997
                      Regional  Brownfields
                      Assessment  Pilot
                       Puyallup  Tribe  of  Tacoma,  WA
  Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5101)
                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. Between 1995 and 1996, EPA funded 76 National and Regional Brownfields
Assessment Pilots, at up to $200,000 each, to support creative two-year explorations and demonstrations of brownfields
solutions. EPAis funding morethan 27 Pilots in 1997. The Pilots 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 Region 10 selected the Puyallup Tribe for a
  Regional Brownfields Pilot.    Interest  in
  redeveloping the Tacoma industrial waterfront area
  is shared not only by a Tribal population  of
  approximately  2,100, but also  by  the broader
  community including the City of Fife, City  of
  Puyallup, County of Tacoma, and County of Pierce.
  The overall population of the project area is about
  200,000. Within the waterfront are two key
  properties acquired in Trust in 1989 by the Puyallup
  Tribe in order to develop a marine terminal on the
  lands. However, further study by the Puyallup
  Tribe has demonstrated that alone, these Trust
  properties are not adequate, due to their size (total
  123 acres) and configuration,  for building a
  marketable-sized terminal. An adjacent 44-acre
  parcel, known as the Reichhold Property, also is
  needed for the terminal, but it has hazardous waste
  problems that are being managed under a RCRA
  permit. The Pilot will allow the Puyallup Tribe to
  work with Reichhold to plan cleanup, property
  acquisition, and redevelopment.

  OBJECTIVES

  The Puyallup Tribe is working to  acquire the
  Reichhold Property and construct a large marine
  PILOT SNAPSHOT
  Tacoma, Washington
  Date of Award:
  September 1996

  Amount: $100,000

  Site Profile: The Pilot
  targets 167 acres of Tribal
  lands located along the
  Blair Waterway in
  downtown Tacoma.
Contacts:

James J. May
Executive Director
Puyallup International,
Inc.
Puyallup Tribe of Indians
(206) 383-2820
Lori Cohen
U.S. EPA-Region 10
(206) 553-6523
cohen.lori@epamial.epa.gov
        Visit the EPA Brownfields Website at:
        http://www.epa.gov/brownfields

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terminal. The Puyallup Tribe plans to use the EPA
grant to assist in the environmental analysis  of the
Reichhold Property and coordinate a solution to the
drainage and wetlands issues that is consistent with
the resolution of similar issues on the Tribe's two
Trust properties. Wetlands planning and design work
directed at solutions for both the Reichhold Property
and the Trust land would facilitate the creation of a
lands mitigation plan that could increase the size of
the area available for industrial development on the
waterfront and could positively  affect wetland
mitigation on other Tribal property.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

The Pilot is:

• Reviewing and analyzing the extent of environmental
 contamination on the Reichhold Property;

• Coordinating a cleanup and redevelopment plan;
 and

• Analyzing and developing a drainage and wetlands
 mitigation plan for the Reichhold Property that is
 consistent with the plans for the Trust lands.

LEVERAGING OTHER ACTIVITIES

Experience with the Puyallup Tribe Pilot has been a
catalyst for related activities including the following.

• Facilitating a consultative process to acquire and
 develop the Reichhold Property.

• Involving students from the Tribal College  in the
 process.
  Regional Bmwnfields Assessment Pilot
  May 1997
Puyallup Tribe of Tacoma, Washington
               EPA 500-F-97-068

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