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Brownfields 2000 Revolving Loan Fund Pilot
Fact Sheet
Roseville, MN
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
Roseville is situated at the northern borders of St. Paul
and Minneapolis. In this area, approximately 13 percent
of the residents live below the poverty level. Federal
deregulation of the trucking industry in 1980 resulted in
trucking terminals located in Roseville reducing or
moving their operations. In response, the City set up a
tax increment financing district to help fund
redevelopment. The redevelopment area of Twin Lakes
includes 168 acres of underutilized and deteriorating
industrial properties. To date, 58 sites (or 113 acres) have
been redeveloped. The City of Roseville is a Brownfields
Assessment Pilot.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 05/01/2000
Amount: $500,000
Profile: Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area
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 5 Brownfields Team
(312)886-7576
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields)
Grant Recipient: City of Roseville, MN
(651)490-2241
Objectives
The BCRLF goals are to:
Provide incentives for remediation of contamination;
•	Develop funding strategies to encourage lending
institutions to participate in environmental
cleanup projects;
•	Create a funding source for cleanup;
•	Provide a funding option for cleanup of the Twin
Lakes Parkway right-of-way; and
•	Provide a funding mechanism to access
Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic
Development grants.
•	Roseville's BCRLF will target the Twin Lakes
Redevelopment Area with priority given to those
properties that affect the proposed Twin Lakes
Parkway's right-of-way.
Activities
Fund Structure and Operations
The City of Roseville will act as lead agency and fund
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manager. Working closely with the Minnesota Pollution
Control Agency through its Voluntary Investigation and
Cleanup Program, the City of Roseville also will serve
as site manager.
The City of Roseville is currently working with the
following organizations to identify appropriate sources
and uses of funds for redevelopment in Twin Lakes: the
US Department of Housing and Urban Development;
Ryan Companies; the Metropolitan Council; the
Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic
Development; the Ramsey County Economic
Development Department; and the Minnesota Pollution
Control Agency. The City of Roseville also is
facilitating private sector involvement through a tax
increment financing district.
Use of BCRLF Pilot funds must be in accordance with
CERCLA, and all CERCLA restrictions on use of
funding also apply to BCRLF funds.
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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