United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105)
EPA 500-F-01-310
April 2001
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
v>EPA Brownfields Supplemental
Assistance
Sacramento, CA
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 worktogether in atimelymannerto prevent, assess, and safely clean up brownfieldsto promote
their sustainable reuse. Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion
or redevelopment is complicated by real orperceivedenvironmentalcontamination.EPAisfunding: assessment demonstration
pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years, with additional funding provided for greenspace), to test
assessment models and facilitate coordinated assessment and cleanup efforts at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels;
and job training pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities
affected by brownfieldsto facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and preparetraineesforfuture employment intheenvironmental
field; and, a cleanup revolving loan fund program (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years) to provide financial assistance
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 has selected the City of Sacramento to receive
supplemental assistance for its Brownfields
Assessment Demonstration Pilot. Sacramento, a
city of 3 70,000 people with an unemployment rate of
7.4 percent and a minority rate of 39.9 percent, has
experienced growth in the past decade that far
outpace s that of other California citie s of similar size.
Nevertheless, significant amounts of land within
Sacramento's developed urban areas remain
underutilized because of real or perceived
contamination. Sacramento's recent growth has
bypassed these brownfields properties and is leading
to the development of prime agricultural land in
surrounding areas.
The Pilot will target two sites within El Monte
Triangle, a 23-acre area with multiple owners and
ongoing industrial, commercial, and residential land
uses. Reuse of this area, which lies within a state
enterprise zone, has been hampered by former
industrial uses, the presence of known toxics, and
public health and liability concerns. Reuse potential
for this area has increased, however, since the
completion of the Arden-Garden Connector, a surface
transportation link providing rapid access to North
Sacramento from 1-5 and 1-80. The Triangle is part
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Sacramento, California
Date of Award: April 2001
Amount: $150,000
Profile: The Pilot targets
two sites within the El
Monte Triangle area for
supplemental soil and
groundwater assessments
to facilitate cleanup and
redevelopment.
Contacts:
City of Sacramento
(916)264-8888
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 9
(415)744-2237
Visit the EPA Region 9 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/index.html
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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of the North Sacramento Redevelopment Area, which
is characterized by significant blight and a large low-
income population.
OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
The Pilot will use EPA's supplemental assistance
grant to undertake additional soil and groundwater
analysis on the two targeted sites to supplement
completed and ongoing investigations (e.g., ahealth
risk assessment) by the city in the El Monte Triangle
area. Based on the assessment results, the Pilot will
design appropriate cleanup plans. In addition, the
Pilot plans to partner with the Sacramento Housing
and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA), who will take
the lead in developing and implementing the stakeholder
consensus-building program to address cleanup and
redevelopment options at the two targeted sites.
Possible reuses for the targeted sites, considered to
be the gateway to the El Monte Triangle area, include
a park on the Colfax Yard property (located directly
southeast of the Ueda Parkway and the Sacramento
Northern Bike Trail) and a retail shopping facility on
the 58 Arden Way site (located directly south of the
Arden-Garden Connector).
The Pilot plans to:
• Conduct soil and groundwater analysis to supplement
the health risk assessments;
• Design appropriate cleanup plans;
• Implement a stakeholder/public participation process
to address public health concerns at the targeted
sites; and
• Develop a report designed to provide stakeholders
with information regarding the contamination levels
at the targeted sites, liability issues, and potential
funding.
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 Sacramento, California
April 2001 EPA 500-F-01-310
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