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 ------- 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. United States __,. EPA Protection Agency ResDonse(51oVn Apr01 Washington, DC 20450 Kesponse (bl Ob I ) ------- |