Brownfields 2002 Assessment Pilot Fact  Sheet
               City of Yankton, South Dakota
EPA Brownfields Initiative

EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states.
communities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the
expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be
complicated by the presence or potential presence of a
hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. On
January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into
law the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields Law, EPA
provides financial assistance to eligible applicants
through four competitive grant programs: assessment
grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and
job training grants. Additionally, funding support is
provided to state and tribal response programs through a
separate mechanism.

Background

EPA has selected the City of Yankton for a Brownfields
Assessment Pilot. The city also was selected to receive
additional funding for assessments at brownfields
properties to be used for greenspace purposes. Yankton
(population 13,528) is located on the Missouri River in
southeastern South Dakota. The  city has targeted
250-acres along the Missouri River for this Pilot. The
project area encompasses significant portions of the
downtown business district, which has evolved from an
industrial area into a mix of residential and commercial
properties over the last 100 years. The city's industrial
past is evidenced by the abundance of old industrial  sites,
abandoned railroad sidings, and agricultural chemical
storage facilities. Yankton is concerned about
environmental contamination from possible heavy
metals, solvents, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, and
PCBs at abandoned sites in the target area. Many of the
442 potentially contaminated parcels in the project area
have become barriers to public and private investment
and have contributed to the economic decline of the
riverfront project area.

The riverfront's economic decline has  severely impacted
local residents. The 816 residents in the project area have
a poverty rate of 25.6 percent, which is more than double
the citywide rate. Per capita income in the project area is
less than the citvwide income level, and the minority
                   Pilot Snapshot

                   Date of Announcement: 05/01/2002
                   Amount: $200,000
                             $50,000 for Greenspace
                   Profile: City of Yankton, South Dakota. The Pilot
                   targets brownfields in a 250-acre riverfront business
                   district that contains properties with potential
                   environmental contamination from Yankton's
                   industrial past.

                   Contacts

                   For further information, including specific grant
                   contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
                   news and events, and publications and links, visit the
                   EPA Brownfields Web site
                   (http ://www .epa.gov/brownfields).

                   EPA Region 8 Brownfields Team
                   (303)312-7074
                   EPA Region 8 Brownfields Web site
                   (http://www.epa.gov/region8/brownfields)

                   Grant Recipient: City of Yankton,SD
                   (605) 668-5200
                 Objectives

                 Yankton's overall Pilot objective is to identify sites with
                 potential environmental concerns and remove
                 environmental obstacles that interfere with riverfront
                 redevelopment opportunities. To accomplish this
                 objective, the Pilot will fund environmental site
                 assessments, cleanup planning, and community
                 outreach along the river.

                 Activities

                 Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

                      • Conducting Phase I and II environmental site
                       assessments on target sites in the project area;
                      • Conducting community outreach; and
                      • Preparing cleanup plans for selected sites.

                 The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet
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population is 9.4 percent as compared to the citywide      been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this
figure 5.6 percent.                                       fact sheet are subject to change.
                                                        The information presented in this fact sheet comes from
                                                        the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the accuracy of
                                                        this information. The cooperative agreement for the
                                                        grant has not yet been negotiated. Therefore, activities
                                                        described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
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