United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-00-051
April 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
<&EPA Brownfields Supplemental
Assistance
St. Louis County, MO
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 St. Louis County, Missouri,
supplemental assistance for its Brownfields
Assessment Demonstration Pilot. Inner suburbs and
municipalities in St. Louis County have experienced
an economic decline as both residents and businesses
have moved to outlying suburbs. For example, 50
years ago, Wellston, a St. Louis County municipality,
counted 40,000 residents and its industry supported
10,000 jobs. Today, Wellston's industry is struggling
and its population has declined more than 60 percent.
Half of the residents live below the poverty line, and
93 percent are minorities.
To help revitalize aging "inner ring" suburbs such as
Wellston, St. Louis County launched a brownfields
initiative in 1997, partially funded through the initial
EPA Pilot. The St. Louis County brownfields initiative
has worked to spur cleanup and redevelopment at
several abandoned and/or contaminated sites in
Wellston and other innerring communities. The Pilot
will use the supplemental assistance to expand beyond
the initial targeted project—the Wellston Technology
Park (WTP)—to two other Wellston brownfields and
two potential greenspace projects in the Lemay area
of St. Louis County.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
St. Louis County,
Missouri
Date of Announcement:
March 2000
Amount: $100,000
Profile: The Pilot will target
four brownfields in the towns
of Wellston and Lemay for
residential, commercial, and
recreational reuse.
Contacts:
LandClearancefor
RedevelopmentAuthority
St. Louis County
(314)615-7663
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 7
(913)551-7786
Visit the EPA Region 7 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region07/specinit/brown/brownfields.htm
For further information, including specific Pilot contacts,
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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OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
St. Louis County, in conjunction with the St. Louis
Brownfields Initiative, seeks to ensure that the entire
community benefits from brownfields revitalization.
In Wellston, the Pilot will support these efforts at a
project adjacent to the WTP that will be redeveloped
intoaSOO-unitresidentialareaandanotherbrownfield
that will become a light industrial park. In Lemay, the
supplemental assistance will facilitate greenspace
creation as part of the Rivers South Restoration
project, located within the federally designated
Empowerment Zone. Revitalization of brownfields
within these communities hopefully will demonstrate
the feasibility and potential for business expansion in
older St. Louis County communities.
To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:
• Conduct environmental assessments at fourtargeted
brownfields in the towns of Wellston and Lemay;
• Prepare preliminary cleanup plans for the targeted
brownfields; and
• Develop a community outreach program to ensure
residents understand the potential risks and benefits
of brownfields reuse.
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 St. Louis County, Missouri
April 2000 EPA 500-F-00-051
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