s jOLI Brownfields 1998 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet •v y Southeast Florida 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 has selected Southeast Florida, encompassing the eastern portions of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties, for a Brownfields Pilot. The Pilot designation follows as part of EPA's commitment to Southeast Florida as a Brownfields Showcase Community. The Eastward Ho! Brownfields Partnership, which oversees the Pilot, is comprised of local, State, regional, and Federal government agencies, as well as public, private, and non-profit community organizations in southeast Florida. The Eastward Ho! Initiative was established in 1995 to direct future growth to the region's urban core and away from the threatened Everglades ecosystem to the west. Because contaminated lands are a significant barrier to redevelopment in the Eastward Ho! corridor, the identification, assessment, cleanup, revitalization, and redevelopment of brownfields on a regional scale is essential to the Eastward Ho! strategy. The Eastward Ho! corridor spans approximately 115 miles along the eastern portions of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties, with a combined population of more than 2 million. While the entire corridor is not characterized by poverty, it contains pockets of some of the most severe poverty in the country. Three State-designated Enterprise Zones fall within the corridor, and much of the Miami-Dade County Pilot Snapshot Date of Announcement: 03/17/1998 Amount: $200,000 Profile: The Pilot targets brownfields along a 115 mile-corridor on the eastern portions of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties. The Eastward Ho! Brownfields Partnership seeks to alleviate growth pressure on the Everglades by encouraging sustainable brownfields reuse. 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 4 Brownfields Team (404) 562-8792 EPA Region 4 Brownfields Web site (http ://www .epa.gov/region4/waste/bf) Grant Recipient: South Florida Regional Planning Council (Coalition with Miami-Dade County, and the Cities of Miami a (954)985-4416 \Ar tIUj Ac Objectives The Eastward Ho! Partnership offers a model of how a regional coalition can accomplish environmental restoration and urban revitalization in a highly fragmented administrative structure. A three-pronged approach of collaboration, strategy, and action will allow the Partnership to address regional brownfields issues. Rehabilitation and redevelopment projects will feature sustainable reuse, including mixed-income housing, sound urban design principles, and bicycle, transit, and pedestrian friendly development. Establishing replicability, and taking advantage of existing financial tools (including the Federal Brownfields Tax Incentive and streamlined governmental processes for brownfields redevelopment) are priorities for the Partnership. United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20450 Solid Waste and Emergency Response (5105T) EPA 500-F-98-197 Jul 98 ------- jJUiUAJll U1 L11V-/ UU111UU1 VV1UJLJLJL1 ci i vuwiaii) uvaignaivu Enterprise Community. The corridor, which developed along two railroad tracks, contains more than 2,100 known contaminated sites, varying widely in size, and degree and type of contamination. Miami-Dade and Broward Counties have completed databases of known contaminated lands; Palm Beach County is developing similar information. . Activities Activities planned as part of this Pilot include: • Leveraging the Eastward Ho! Brownfields Partnership's designation as a Brownfields Showcase Community to form new Federal partnerships, encouraging sustainable reuse of brownfields properties; • Developing mechanisms for corridor communities to easily access the Federal Brownfields Tax Incentive; • Working with Federal, State, and local agencies to develop standard guidelines and processes for working with brownfields, and publishing these models for streamlining permitting and other processes for use by communities across the country; and • Establishing a computerized regional inventory of brownfields properties, integrated with socio-economic, health, and transportation data properties. 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. United States c Environmental anri Fmpflpn™ EPA 500-F-98-197 _ . . and Emergency . . Protection Agency Response (5105*0 Jul 98 Washington, DC 20450 ^ v ' ------- w5 Brownfields 1998 Supplemental Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet Southeast Florida 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 Southeast Florida, encompassing the eastern portions of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties, supplemental assistance for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot and additional funding for assessments at brownfields properties to be used for greenspace purposes. The Pilot designation follows as part of EPA's commitment to Southeast Florida as a brownfields Showcase Community. The Eastward Ho! Brownfields Partnership, which oversees the Pilot, is comprised of local, state, regional, and federal government agencies, as well as public, private, and non-profit community organizations in Southeast Florida. The Eastward Ho! Initiative was established in 1995 to direct future growth to the region's urban core and away from the threatened Everglades ecosystem to the west. Because contaminated lands are a significant barrier to redevelopment in the Eastward Ho! corridor, the identification, assessment, cleanup, revitalization, and redevelopment of brownfields on a regional scale is essential to the Eastward Ho! strategy. The Eastward Ho! corridor spans approximately 115 miles along the eastern portions of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties and has a combined population of more than 2 million people. While the entire corridor is not characterized by poverty, Pilot Snapshot Date of Announcement: 03/01/2000 Amount: $100,000 Profile: The Pilot targets brownfields along a 115-mile corridor on the eastern portions of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties. The Eastward Ho! Brownfields Partnership seeks to alleviate growth pressure on the Everglades by encouraging sustainable brownfields reuse. 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 4 Brownfields Team (404) 562-8792 EPA Region 4 Brownfields Web site (http ://www .epa.gov/region4/waste/bf) Grant Recipient: South Florida Regional Planning Council (Coalition with Miami-Dade County, and the Cities of Miami a (954)985-4416 Objectives The Eastward Ho! Partnership is a regional collaboration that brings together local, state, regional, and federal agencies with private sector, non-profit, and community organizations to address the rehabilitation and reuse of brownfield areas. The Pilot will use supplemental assistance to continue its three-pronged approach of collaboration, strategy, and action to allow the Partnership to address regional brownfields issues. Rehabilitation and redevelopment projects will feature sustainable reuse, including mixed-income housing, sound urban design principles, bicycle transit, and pedestrian development. To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to: • Conduct site assessments and characterizations nf mQrVptnhIf hrr^wnfi^lrlc Ir^n+^rl within United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20450 Solid Waste and Emergency Response (5105T) EPA 500-F-00-048 Apr 00 ------- it contains pockets of some of the most severe poverty in the country. Three state-designated Enterprise Zones fall within the corridor, and much of the Miami-Dade County portion of the corridor is within a federally designated Enterprise Community. The corridor, which developed along two railroad tracks, contains more than 2,100 known contaminated sites, varying widely in size and degree and type of contamination. Miami-Dade and Broward Counties have completed databases of known contaminated lands; Palm Beach County is developing similar information. Vi UlUllVVlUl/lV UlV»»llJ.lVlWkJ JUVO IWUtVU VV 1 Willi the Eastward Ho! corridor; • Further develop a regional Geographic Information System (a site assessment and characterization tool); • Utilize pre-existing framework for regional decision making that covers all potential brownfields sites to determine selection for site assessments and characterizations; and • Continue public outreach and community involvement activities related to the site selection and assessment processes. 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. United States c Environmental anri Fmpflpn™ EPA 500-F-00-048 _ . . and Emergency . __ Protection Agency Response (5105*0 Apr°° Washington, DC 20450 ^ v ' ------- |