Brownfields  2001  Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet
               Orange, CA
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 Orange for a Brownfields
Assessment Pilot. The City  of Orange (population
127,600) is located in central Orange County, about 32
miles southeast of Los Angeles. Incorporated in 1888,
the older western and central portions of the city are
landlocked and fully built out. Growth has continued in
the northern and eastern parts  of the city around the
targeted sites. While the city has adopted the California
state standard of three acres of parkland for every 1,000
residents, there has been no park development in the
areas around the targeted sites over the last decade. The
city has been unable to keep pace with the substantial
increase in residential development in the areas around
the targeted sites. The Pilot targets the city-owned Cerro
Villa site and the Railroad Property, which the  city is in
the process of acquiring.

Both targeted sites have had a negative effect on the
surrounding communities. Portions of the Railroad
Property, which currently houses an asphalt batch plant,
have been used as a landfill, surface mine, and  materials
processing plant. The Cerro Villa property, which also is
a former landfill, is now surrounded by residential
development. Assessment of both landfills is needed to
determine the level of contamination that may be present
due to prior uses of the property.
                   Pilot Snapshot

                   Date of Announcement: 04/01/2001
                   Amount: $200,000
                   Profile: The Pilot targets two sites in the northern
                   and eastern portions of the City of Orange for
                   assessment and planning for redevelopment into
                   usable parkland.

                   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 9 Brownfields Team
                   (415)972-3091
                   EPA Region 9 Brownfields Web site
                   (http://www.epa.gov/region9/brownfields)

                   Grant Recipient:  City of Orange,CA
                   (714)744-5597
                 Objectives

                 The City of Orange plans to create two parks through
                 redevelopment of the targeted sites. Activities at the
                 Railroad Property will be coordinated with the
                 development of Rock Creek Park to the northeast and
                 the planned Santiago Creek trail system to the west. The
                 Pilot will help the city create another 54 acres of
                 developed park space to meet community needs and
                 reduce its parkland deficit.

                 Activities

                 Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

                      • Completing Phase I and Phase  II environmental
                        site assessments for the Cerro Villa and Railroad
                        Property sites;
                      • Conducting complete risk assessments for the
                        Cerro Villa and Railroad Property sites; and
                      • Developing remediation plans for the Cerro Villa
                        and Railroad Property sites.
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA500-F-01-260
         Apr 01

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                                                     The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet
                                                     been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this
                                                     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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