EPA'sTechnical Assistance
to Brownfields (TAB)
Communities Program
Transforming environmental liabilities
into community assets
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What is TAB?
TheTechnical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) Communities Program
helps communities, states, tribes and others understand risks
associated with contaminated or potentially contaminated properties,
called brownfields, and learn how to assess, safely clean up and
sustainably reuse them.
EPA funds three organizations—Kansas State University (KSU), the
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the Center for Creative
Land Recycling (CCLR) —to serve as independent sources of technical
assistance. Each of theseTABs has an extensive network of partners,
contractors and other contacts that provides services across the
country.They help communities tackle a variety of challenges related
to identifying, assessing, cleaning up and redeveloping brownfields.
The technical assistance comes at no cost to communities.
This makes theTAB program a great resource for small, underserved,
rural and other communities that might otherwise struggle to
address their brownfields.
TAB helps communities:
•	Identify, inventory and prioritize brownfields for redevelopment.
•	Determine the potential public health impact of brownfields.
•	Get the public and other stakeholders involved.
•	Facilitate site reuse goal-setting and planning charrettes.
•	Evaluate economic feasibility of reuse plans:
•	Conduct educational workshops, seminars and webinars.
•	Use Web-based tools to facilitate brownfields redevelopment.
•	Interpret technical brownfield reports, assessments and plans.
•	Identify appropriate funding/financing approaches.
•	Integrate approaches to brownfield cleanup and redevelopment.
•	Understand and navigate regulatory requirements;
•	Apply for and manage EPA brownfields grants.
•	Develop work plans.
•	Hire planning and environmental contractors and consultants.

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Examples of TAB Assistance
Brownfields Planning in St. Louis, Missouri
KSUTAB supported St. Louis in redevelopment planning efforts by conducting
workshops where city officials and others interested in brownfields worked
together to determine local capacity to address blight and vacancy.
Taking Inventory inTowaoc, Colorado
KSU TAB assisted the Ute Mountain UteTribe by importing data for more than 100
sites into the Brownfield Inventory Tool, a free, Web-based resource that helps
record environmental and administrative information on local brownfields. The tool
is available at www.ksutab.org.
Interpreting Technical Reports in Providence, Rhode Island
NJITTAB reviewed and interpreted several site investigation reports for the
Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island. They explained site contamination
and its potential impacts to residents and assisted in developing a timeline for
cleanup. NJITTAB provided several documents identifying the most significant
potential public health threats and assessing environmental activities that took
place at the brownfield site.
Conducting Community Focus Groups in Gresham, Oregon
CCLRTAB and its partners assisted the Rockwood Community Development
Corporation in hosting a visioning workshop to brainstorm long-term goals and
strategies to revitalize a community park. The community generated a collective
vision and paved the way for the transformation of the park into a vibrant and
valuable community asset.
Identifying Financing in Richmond, California
CCLRTAB helped the city restructure a projects finances to provide for site
cleanup. Onsite contamination, which included pesticides, lead and chemicals,
was removed with the help of three EPA Brownfield Cleanup Grants, paving the
way for the site's redevelopment.
Transforming Contaminated Land in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine
NJITTAB grantees assisted town officials in developing a community engagement
framework to build community consensus on a redevelopment plan for a
contaminated former mill and tannery. TAB hosted public charrettes with core
stakeholders and facilitated agreement on short- and long-term uses and activities
for the site. By identifying opportunities to coordinate cleanup with reuse, TAB's
technical assistance helped the community reopen the property as a 36-acre park.
The park provides access to the Piscataquis River via a canoe and kayak launch
and trails for running, walking, cross country skiing and snowshoeing

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Ready to get started?
Each TAB grantee provides a wide range of free technical assistance to
help communities redevelop brownfields. For more information, contact
a TAB grantee near you.
EPA Regions 1, 3 arid 4
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Colette Santasieri
973-642-4165
santasieri@njit.edu
www.njit.edu/tab
EPA Regions 5, 6, 7 and 8
Kansas State University
Blase Leven
785-532-0780
baleven@ksu.edu
www.ksutab.org
EPA Regions 2, 9 and 10
Center for Creative Land Recycling
Sarah Sieloff
415-398-1080, ext. 110
sarah.sieloff@cclr.org
www.cclr.org
General Inquiries
EPA Office of Brownfields and Land
Revitalization
Wendy Thomi
202-566-1462
thomi.wendy@epa.gov
www.epa.gov/brownfields
EPA Regions 1-10
EPA 560-F-15-194
October 2017

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