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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Protection Agency ResDonse(51oVn Apr01
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