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Brownfields 1997 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet
Salt Lake City, UT
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 8 selected Salt Lake City for a Regional
Brownfields Pilot. Salt Lake City's 650-acre Gateway
District (population 620) on the western edge of the
downtown is a former industrial center bordering the
central business district. The area has been severely
impacted by abandoned industrial sites and changing
transportation networks. The population is declining and
the area is losing its development appeal.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 10/01/1996
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot targets the assessment and
remediation design for a few test sites within the
650-acre Gateway District.
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 8 Brownfields Team
(303) 312-7074
EPA Region 8 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region8/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: Salt Lake City, UT
(801) 535-7240
Objectives
Salt Lake City's overall focus is to support an
accelerated redevelopment of the Gateway District to
allow for expansion of downtown mixed-use
development and provide support facilities for the 2002
Winter Olympic Games. The potential future land uses
for Gateway were identified through a
community-based visioning process.
Activities
The Pilot has:
Completed first phase of inventorying of brownfields
within project area including developing categories of
contamination. The Pilot is:
•	Conducting field sampling and analysis and
setting priorities for additional assessment and
remediation planning;
•	Developing prototype reuse processes for each
contamination category; and
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•	Developing site-specific, risk-based corrective
actions for at least one site within each category
of contamination.
Experience with the Salt Lake City Pilot has been a
catalyst for related activities including the following.
•	Generating standard voluntary cleanup
doc-umentation with the State and EPA.
•	Identifying financial solutions involving the
public and private sectors for cleaning up
contaminated properties.
•	Developing liability agreements to help expedite
private sector cleanups of brownfields sites.
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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Pilot Fact Sheet
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Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 03/01/2000
Amount: $150,000
$50,000 for Greenspace
Profile: Salt Lake City, UT. The Pilot will target
specific properties in the south half of the Gateway
District that have the greatest immediate potential for
cleanup and redevelopment.
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 8 Brownfields Team
(303) 312-7074
EPA Region 8 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region8/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: Salt Lake City, UT
(801) 535-7240
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 awarded Salt Lake City supplemental assistance for
its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot and
additional funding for assessments at brownfields
properties to be used for greenspace purposes. The focus
of the Pilot is Salt Lake City's 650-acre Gateway District
(population 620) on the western edge of downtown. This
part of the city has been adversely impacted by more
than 100 years of transportation activity. Rail lines and
rail yards, an interstate highway with four fly-over
off-ramps, and a lack of infrastructure investment have
created a neighborhood of shifting land uses and
abandonment. A majority of residents in the area are
low-income and un- or underemployed, and economic
investment is limited by environmental concerns.
Supplemental funding is needed to allow the city to
conduct the needed environmental assessments on a
number of properties in the south half of the district,
where revitalization activities are just beginning.
Assessment of these properties could overcome
uncertainty about their environmental conditions and
facilitate the necessary investment to revitalize the area.
Objectives
Salt Lake City's overall goal is to support an accelerated
redevelopment of the Gateway area to allow for
enhancement of downtown mixed-use development
with the associated creation of new employment and
commercial opportunity, as well as additional
downtown housing units. Because most of the private
investment in the Gateway District to date has been in
the northern half, the supplemental Pilot targets
properties in the southern half that have the greatest
immediate potential for cleanup and redevelopment.
Several sites have already been identified as likely to be
targeted by the Pilot. The Pilot will conduct
environmental assessments at the selected properties
and will work with property owners on appropriate
cleanup options.
The Pilot will use the greenspace funding to support
Salt Lake City's "Open Space Plan," which calls for
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bringing City Creek above ground in the Gateway
District and restoring its surface connection with the
Jordan River; the creek had been channeled to an
underground conduit around the turn of the twentieth
century. The greenway to be provided by this project
will help to link downtown with the regional Jordan
River Parkway and reconnect the westside
neighborhoods with downtown. The project's
environmental cleanup, landscaping, recreational
opportunities, and aquatic restoration will improve the
image and habitability of the area and will make the
surrounding properties-including brownfields sites-more
desirable for both residential and commercial uses. In
addition, significant community involvement is planned
with the support of the National Park Service Rivers,
Trails, and Conservation Assistance program.
To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:
•	Conduct environmental assessments on a number
of properties in the south half of the Gateway
District that have immediate cleanup and
redevelopment potential;
•	Develop cleanup cost estimates and plans for
assessed properties;
•	Conduct environmental assessments for the
greenspace City Creek project, including soil and
groundwater sampling to evaluate the suitability
of environmental conditions for the proposed
riparian and recreational uses;
•	Grove communities in designing and planning
the greenspace project, including meeting with
the local community councils, meeting
one-on-one with property owners and tenants
along the right-of-way, and providing an
opportunity for community input on the project;
• Conduct a study to determine measures of
success.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet
been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this
fact sheet are subject to change.
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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