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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 Region 10 selected the Puyallup Tribe for a
Regional Brownfields Pilot. Interest in redeveloping the
Tacoma industrial waterfront area is shared not only by a
Tribal population of approximately 2,100, but also by the
broader community including the City of Fife, City of
Puyallup, County of Tacoma, and County of Pierce. The
overall population of the project area is about 200,000.
Within the waterfront are two key properties acquired in
Trust in 1989 by the Puyallup Tribe in order to develop a
marine terminal on the lands. However, further study by
the Puyallup Tribe has demonstrated that alone, these
Trust properties are not adequate, due to their size (total
123 acres) and configuration, for building a
marketable-sized terminal. An adjacent 44-acre parcel,
known as the Reichhold Property, also is needed for the
terminal, but it has hazardous waste problems that are
being managed under a RCRA permit. The Pilot will
allow the Puyallup Tribe to work with Reichhold to plan
cleanup, property acquisition, and redevelopment.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 09/01/1996
Amount: $100,000
Profile: The Pilot targets 167 acres of Tribal lands
located along the Blair Waterway in downtown
Tacoma.
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/
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Grant Recipient: Puyallup Tribe of Tacoma,WA
(206)383-2820
Objectives
The Puyallup Tribe is working to acquire the Reichhold
Property and construct a large marine terminal. The
Puyallup Tribe plans to use the EPA grant to assist in
the environmental analysis of the Reichhold Property
and coordinate a solution to the drainage and wetlands
issues that is consistent with the resolution of similar
issues on the Tribe's two Trust properties. Wetlands
planning and design work directed at solutions for both
the Reichhold Property and the Trust land would
facilitate the creation of a lands mitigation plan that
could increase the size of the area available for
industrial development on the waterfront and could
positively affect wetland mitigation on other Tribal
property.
Activities
The Pilot is:
• Reviewing and analyzing the extent of
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environmental contamination on the Reichhold
Property;
•	Coordinating a cleanup and redevelopment plan;
and
•	Analyzing and developing a drainage and
wetlands mitigation plan for the Reichhold
Property that is consistent with the plans for the
Trust lands.
Experience with the Puyallup Tribe Pilot has been a
catalyst for related activities including the following.
•	Facilitating a consultative process to acquire and
develop the Reichhold Property.
•	Involving students from the Tribal College in the
process.
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.
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