United States
                       Environmental
                       Protection Agency
                       Washington, D.C. 20460
 Solid Waste
 and Emergency
 Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-97-037
May 1997
                       National   Brownfields
                       Assessment  Pilot
                                                            Stockton, CA
  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 selected the City of Stockton for a Brownfields
  Pilot. 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 sprawl expands.  Over the last 25 years,
  the City' s redevelopment agency has been acquiring
  many ofthe abandoned properties in the waterfront
  area, nearly  all of which are potentially
  contaminated.  At least 13 acres are known to be
  contaminated. The City is particularly concerned
  with the properties in the State Enterprise Zone,
  where contamination could present an additional
  obstacle to economic revitalization.

  OBJECTIVES

  The focus of Stockton's brownfields effort is to
  encourage economic revitalization ofthe urban
  waterfront area. Redevelopment ofthe 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 objec-
  tives, a comprehensive masterplan for brownfields
 PILOT SNAPSHOT
  Stockton, California
  Date of Award:
  March 1996

  Amount: $200,000

  Site Profile: The Pilot
  targets a 50-acre
  collection of sites ringing
  Stockton's waterfront
  area. The pilot project
  area contains several
  brownfields and is
  adjacent to one Superfund
  site within the State
  Enterprise Zone.
Contacts:

Garrett Toy
Department of Housing and
Redevelopment
Stockton, California
(209) 937-8075
  Thomas Mix
  U.S. EPA Region 9
  (415)744-2378
  mix.tom@epamail.epa.gov
       Visit the EPA Brownfields Website at:
       http://www.epa.gov/brownfields

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site assessment and remediation, and incentives for
redevelopment will be developed.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

The Pilot has:

• Initiated a process to conduct the planned Phase I
 and Phase II site assessments on the Weber Block
 site in the brownfields project area.

The Pilot is:

• Developing a comprehensive brownfields environ-
 mental plan as part of the City's overall waterfront
 redevelopment  plan;

• Developing a coordinated  partnership  for
 brownfields revitalization that includes the Water-
 front Revival Task  Force, residents, community
 agencies, private sector, and public entities; and

• Planning full site assessment on 4-5 sites owned by
 the Stockton Redevelopment Agency, and prelimi-
 nary  site assessment on up to 20-acres  of other
 properties within the project area.

LEVERAGING OTHER ACTIVITIES

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

• Developing and testing new funding mechanisms to
 assist in brownfields assessment, remediation, and
 reuse.

• Analyzing participation  in  the  California
 Environmental Protection Agency's Expedited
 Remedial Action Program to develop and implement
 the City's remediation strategy.

• Expanding on the City's association with existing
 revitalization efforts,  including the California
 Department of Boating and Waterways programs
 and other Federal and State programs.

• Combining the  pilot activities with planning and
 funding resources provided by the State Enterprise
 Zone program.
 National Brownfields Assessment Pilot                                                Stockton, California
 May 1997                                                                      EPA 500-F-97-037

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