United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
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v>EPA Brownfields Supplemental
Assistance
Southeast Florida
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5105)
Quick Reference Fact Sheet
EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower states, communities, and other
stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and
sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or perceived contamination and
an active potential for redevelopment or reuse. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded
up to $200,000 over two years), to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models; job training
pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities affected
by brownfields to facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental
field; and, cleanup revolving loan fund programs (each funded up to $500,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds
to make loans for the environmental cleanup of brownfields. These pilot programs are intended to provide EPA, states,
tribes, municipalities, and communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods
to promote a unified approach to site assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
BACKGROUND
EPA awarded Southeast Florida, encompassing the
eastern portions ofPalmBeach, Broward, andMiami-
Dade Counties, supplemental assistance for its
Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot and
additional funding for assessments at brownfields
properties to be used for greenspace purposes. The
PilotdesignationfollowsaspartofEPA'scommitment
to Southeast Florida as a brownfields Showcase
Community. The Eastward Ho! Brownfields
Partnership, which oversees the Pilot, is comprised of
local, state, regional, and federal government agencies,
as well as public, private, and non-profit community
organizations in Southeast Florida. The Eastward
Ho! Initiative was established in 199 5 to direct future
growth to the region's urban core and away from the
threatened Everglades ecosystem to the west.
Because contaminated lands are a significant barrier
to redevelopment in the Eastward Ho! corridor, the
identification, assessment, cleanup, revitalization, and
redevelopment of brownfields on a regional scale is
essential to the Eastward Ho! strategy.
The Eastward Ho! corridor spans approximately 115
miles along the eastern portions of Palm Beach,
Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties and has a
combined population of more than 2 million people.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Southeast Florida
Date of Announcement:
March 2000
Amount: $100,000
Profile: The Pilot targets brownfields
along a 115-milecorridoron the eastern
portions of Palm Beach, Broward, and
Miami-Dade Counties. The Eastward
Ho! Brownfields Partnership seeks to
alleviate growth pressure on the
Everglades by encouraging sustainable
brownfields reuse.
Contacts:
South Florida Regional
Planning Department
(954)985-4416
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 4
(404)562-8661
Visit the EPA Region 4 Brownfields web site at:
http^/www.epa.gov/region4/wastepgs/brownfpgs/bf.htm
Forfutther information, including specific Pilotcontacts,
additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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While the entire corridor is not characterized by
poverty, it contains pockets of some of the most
severe poverty in the country. Three state-designated
Enterprise Zones fall within the corridor, and much of
the Miami-Dade County portion of the corridor is
within a federally designated Enterprise Community.
The corridor, which developed along two railroad
tracks, contains more than 2,100 known contaminated
sites, varying widely in size and degree and type of
contamination. Miami-Dade and Broward Counties
have completed databases of known contaminated
lands; Palm Beach County is developing similar
information.
OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
The Eastward Ho! Partnership is a regional
collaboration that brings together local, state, regional,
and federal agencies with private sector, non-profit,
and community organizations to address the
rehabilitation andreuse of brownfield areas. The Pilot
will use supplemental assistance to continue its three-
pronged approach of collaboration, strategy, and action
to allow the Partnership to address regional
brownfields issues. Rehabilitation and redevelopment
projects will feature sustainable reuse, including mixed-
income housing, sound urban design principles, bicycle
transit, and pedestrian development.
To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:
• Conduct site assessments and characterizations of
marketable brownfields sites located within the
Eastward Ho! corridor;
• Further develop a regional Geographic Information
System (a site assessment and characterization
tool);
• Utilize pre-existing framework for regional decision
making that covers all potential brownfields sites to
determine selection for site assessments and
characterizations; and
• Continuepublicoutreachandcommunity involvement
activities related to the site selection and assessment
processes.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
Brownfields Supplemental Assistance
April 2000
Southeast Florida
EPA 500-F-00-048
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