Brownfields 2004 Assessment Grant Fact  Sheet
               Port of Seattle, WA
EPA Brownfields Program

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.

Community Description

The Port of Seattle was selected to receive a
brownfields assessment grant and a cleanup grant. The
cleanup target site and two of the three sites to be
assessed are within the federally designated Dumwash
Enterprise Community of Seattle (population
1,774,300). Since the early 1900s, the Dumwash
Corridor, adjacent to the port, has been one of Seattle's
principal blue-collar employment areas. Aging
industrial facilities and widespread contamination
contributed to an ongoing decline in the area. Nineteen
percent of the 14,000 Corridor residents live in poverty,
and the median household income is 28 percent below
the county median. Thirty percent of the local
population are minorities. Cleanup and revitalization of
the port sites are important to the City of Seattle, King
County and the State of Washington.  Because of the
downturn in some of the area's largest industries,
aircraft manufacturing and high-tech, the state regularly
competes for the highest unemployment rate in the
country. Redevelopment plans for the port sites call for
mixed uses, including commercial, high-tech research,
light industry, public transportation hubs, and
recreational access to the waterway and coves.
                   Assessment Grant

                   $200,000 for hazardous substances

                   EPA has selected the Port of Seattle for a
                   brownfields assessment grant. Hazardous substances
                   grant funds will be used to complete Phase I and
                   Phase II environmental assessments at three
                   locations within the port area, including terminals
                   and warehouses. These sites supported industrial
                   businesses including a machine shop, a glass
                   company, an ink manufacturer, assorted warehouses,
                   and transportation-related maintenance operations.

                   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 10 Brownfields Team
                   (206)553-7299
                   EPA Region 10 Brownfields Web site
                   (http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CLEANUP.NSF/
                   sites/bf)

                   Grant Recipient: Port of Seattle,WA
                   (206)728-3160

                   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
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA560-F-04-175
        Jun 04

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