United States
                  Environmental
                  Protection Agency
                  Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response  (5101)
 EPA500-F-99-055
 May 1999
 www.epa.gov/brownfields/
 >>EPA   Brownfields Cleanup
                  Revolving  Loan  Fund  Pilot
                               Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
                            (Coalition with the Cities of Phoenix and Tucson)
 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. 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 forthe 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

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
BCRLF pilot is acoalition representing the interests of
the cities of Phoenix and Tucson. The pilot target area
in Tucson consists of 225 acres located in the downtown
area. Within the Tucson target area, 41 percent of the
population lives below the poverty level and there is an
11 percent unemployment rate. The target area for
Phoenix covers 20 square miles in the south-central
part of the City. This area, which includes an Enterprise
Community, is an economically distressed community
that has residential neighborhoods located amidst
blighted conditions. A significant portion of the area is
abandoned or occupied by low-value industrial uses.
Within the Phoenix  target area, 48 percent of the
population lives below the poverty level.

BCRLF OBJECTIVES

The Arizona BCRLF pilot will be used to forward the
goals of Tucson's Brownfields Pilot Project and
Phoenix's Brownfields Land Recycling Program.
Successful implementation of the BCRLF program
will provide economic stimulation for the distressed
areas of the city center. Tucson is  prioritizing four
brownfields sites for cleanup within four years. In
Phoenix, the 20 square mile Brownfields Target Area
 PILOT SNAPSHOT
   Arizona Department of
   Environmental Quality
   (Coalition with the Cities of
   Phoenix and Tucson)
  Date of Announcement:
  May 25,1999

  Amount:  $1.0 million

  BCRLF Target Area:
  225 acres of downtown
  Tucson and 20 square miles
  in south-central Phoenix
 Contacts:
 Arizona Department of
 Environmental Quality
 602)207-4109
Region 9 Brownfields
Coordinator
(415) 744-2237
      Visit the EPA Region 9 Brownfields web site at:
     www.epa.gov/region09/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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includes an Enterprise Community, several designated
redevelopment areas, and communities adj acentto the
Rio Salado Habitat Restoration and Beyond the Banks
Projects.

FUND STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
(ADEQ) will serve as the lead agency and site manager.
The Water Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA)
will serve as fund manager. In addition to providing
direct loans, Arizona also may provide linked deposit
guarantees and leveraged loans to eligible borrowers.

LEVERAGING

Arizona will attempt to leverage resources from other
sources like the State's General Fund,  Retirement
Fund, Worker's Compensation Fund, and Arizona's
Clean Water Revolving Fund.  Other government
economic incentive programs available to potential
developers include the Federal Investment Tax Credit,
the Federal Brownfields Tax Incentive, the State
Enterprise  Zone Program, Phoenix's EXPAND
(Expansion Assistance and Development Program),
and Phoenix's MICROLOAN (promotes lending to
qualified businesses  located  in the  Enterprise
Community).
Use ofBCRLF Pilot funds must be in accordance with
CERCLA, and all CERCLA restrictions on use of funding
also apply to BCRLFfunds.
 Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilot                       Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
 May 1999                                                                     EPA 500-F-99-055

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