United States
                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C. 20460
 Solid Waste
 and Emergency
 Response (5101)
 EPA 500-F-00-054
 April 2000
 www.epa.gov/brownfields/
  <&EPA  Brownfields Supplemental
                   Assistance
                                                                        Tulsa,  OK
 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 Tulsa  supplemental
assistance for its Brownfields  Assessment
Demonstration Pilot. Located in the northeastern
quadrant of Oklahoma, Tulsa is the 43rd largest city
in the country and is continuing to grow.  The
economic boom of the late 1970s and early 1980s
contributed to rapid expansion in outlying greenfields
and pulled businesses and residents from the city
core, leaving  large tracts  of land that  may be
environmentally affected. Numerous redevelopment
efforts adjacent to the core area have been delayed
due to potential environmental risks.  The city faces
a shortage of greenfields within the city limits, and
future  industrial  development  must focus on
brownfields for future economic growth.

OBJECTIVES  AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

The ultimate goal of Tulsa's  Brownfields
Redevelopment Program  is  to restore abandoned,
idle, or underused industrial and commercial sites to
new productive uses and thereby create jobs and
attract capital  investments.  The Pilot will use the
supplemental assistance to add to the established
program by furthering its capacity to assess more
brownfields sites.   Several  of the 10 sites to be
PILOT  SNAPSHOT
  Tulsa, Oklahoma
 Date of Announcement:
 March 2000

 Amount: $150,000

 Profile: The Pilot targets 10
 new brownfields sites, several
 ofwhichareadjacenttoexisting
 brownfields sites that are
 already being redeveloped
 under the Tulsa Brownfield
 Redevelopment Program.
 Contacts:
 Tulsa Industrial Authority
 (918)584-7898
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 6
(214)665-6736
     Visit the EPA Region 6 Brownfields web site at:
  http://www.epa.gov/earth1r6/6sf/bfpages/sfbfhome.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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targeted are adj acent to existing brownfields properties
that are being redeveloped. Four of the 10 new sites
are next to  Oklahoma Steel Castings; one site is
adjacent to  Flint Industries; and two sites  are by
Wheatley/Halliburton. Three other sites are located
along Dawson Road, North Utica, and West 21st
Street.

To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:

•Conduct  environmental assessments  at  10
 redevelopment sites;

• Explore methods of financing cleanup costs and
 create innovative  long-term financial incentives,
 such as preparing for future capitalization of revolving
 loan funds;

• Clarify liability and cleanup issues through the EPA/
 Oklahoma Department of Environmental  Quality
 Memorandum of Agreement  and the  Oklahoma
 Brownfields Voluntary Redevelopment Act; and

• Continue  to enhance  public  involvement in
 determining reuse options at the targeted sites.
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                                                       Tulsa, Oklahoma
 April 2000                                                                         EPA 500-F-00-054

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