/ O \ Brownfields 1998 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet \ ±$2. J Port of Seattle, WA 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 the Port of Seattle for a Brownfields Pilot. The Pilot focuses on the 970-acre Ballard Northend Manufacturing and Industrial Center (BINMIC), which was established to ensure that adequate accessible industrial land would be available to promote a diversified employment base. BINMIC is home to more than 1,000 businesses and 16,000 employees. Along with the Environmental Impact Statement, the BINMIC Industrial Area Plan is the nation's first comprehensive blueprint for industrial sustainability in an urban setting. BINMIC faces major challenges. Rising land prices and uncertainty regarding long-term cleanup liability threaten BINMIC's ability to clean up brownfields and remain an industrial area. The need for scarce expansion space has forced successful businesses to move out of BINMIC. The Pilot is designed to stop the exodus of expanding business and ensure growth within BINMIC by determining soil cleanup levels that are tied to state-approved presumptive remedies. This will introduce certainty into developers' estimates of cleanup costs, which will facilitate the cleanup and reuse of BINMIC brownfields. Pilot Snapshot Date of Announcement: 05/06/1998 Amount: $200,000 Profile: The Pilot targets the 970-acre Ballard Interbay Northend Manufacturing and Industrial Center (BINMIC). 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/ sites/bf) Grant Recipient: Port of Seattle, WA (206) 728-3731 Objectives The objective of the BINMIC Industrial Area Plan is to facilitate the cleanup, redevelopment, and reuse of historic BINMIC industrial properties to retain industries and add 3,800 family-wage jobs by the year 2014. The Brownfields Pilot will support this objective by determining industrial-based soil cleanup levels for BINMIC brownfields, linking them to specific, ecologically-sound presumptive remedies, and thus provide property owners with more certainty in estimating cleanup costs. Activities Activities planned as part of this Pilot include: • Assessing the nature and extent of contamination at BINMIC properties; • Comparing representative site conditions to appropriate cleanup technologies; • Compiling and obtaining state approval of a United States c Environmental anri Fmpflpn™ EPA 500-F-98-164 nil- a ancl Emergency .. Protection Agency Response (5105T) MaV98 Washington, DC 20450 ^ v ' ------- conditions checklist for site cleanup activities; • Conducting community outreach through newsletters and workshops; and • Documenting local community concerns. This project will foster a unique partnership between the Port of Seattle, City of Seattle, the Neighborhood Business Council, community groups, the state, and the 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. EPA. United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20450 and Emergency Response (5105T) Solid Waste EPA 500-F-98-164 May 98 ------- w5 Brownfields 1998 Supplemental Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet Port of Seattle, Washington 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 the City of Seattle, in partnership with the Port of Seattle, supplemental assistance for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot. The Pilot targets the 970-acre Ballard Interbay Northend Manufacturing Industrial Center (BINMIC), established originally to ensure the availability of industrial land for a diversified employment base. BINMIC is home to over 1,000 businesses. The need for businesses to expand and potential contamination on many properties has forced successful businesses to move to other locations and threatens to undermine the foundation of the center. The objective of the original Pilot was to begin the process of assessing, cleaning up, and reusing industrial properties in the BINMIC and thus retain successful industries and add new family-wage jobs. The original Pilot, managed by the Port of Seattle, established baseline groundwater hydrogeologic conditions, documented the nature of contamination in the BINMIC, and developed standards for soil and groundwater cleanups at typical BINMIC sites. The supplemental funds, to be managed by the City of Seattle in partnership with the Port, will use these tools to address three sites that will serve as case studies for future redevelopment in the BINMIC and serve to validate the tools for use at other BINMIC sites. Three potential candidate sites for pqcp c+nHif^c inrOnrlf* q fr»rm^r mp*tcil falvri^srhrvn f?*r»i1i +\r rvn Pilot Snapshot Date of Announcement: 05/01/2002 Amount: $150,000 Profile: The Pilot targets three contaminated properties in the 970-acre BINMIC industrial area for use as case studies in the application of assessment and cleanup planning tools./ Port of Seattle, Washington 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/ sites/bf) Grant Recipient: Port of Seattle, WA (206)684-8189 Objectives The objective of the Pilot is to build on the success of the original Pilot and apply the tools for streamlining cleanups to specific BINMIC properties in a case study setting. A selection panel representing the Port of Seattle, the City of Seattle, and the community will select sites for the case study. Financial and technical assistance will encourage property owners to cleanup their sites with BINMIC tools. Each case study site will receive funds for assessment, technical assistance, and preparation of cleanup plans. A technical assistance team will be available to help property owners design an assessment strategy, identify contaminants of concern, and select cleanup goals. Activities Activities planned as part of this Pilot include: United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20450 Solid Waste and Emergency Response (5105T) EPA 500-F-02-114 May 02 ------- vtlov 1V1111V1 1UI/..VUUV1. v/x a canal, a former marine engine repair and maintenance shop by Salmon Bay, and a former chrome plating plant. • Providing outreach to explain the program to affected businesses and local community members; • Selecting the case study sites based on minimal specific criteria; and • Facilitating the use of BINMIC tools at the three selected case-study sites with the help of a technical team that will assist owners in designing an assessment strategy, identifying chemicals of concern, and selecting cleanup goals. 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-02-114 j. j.- a ancl Emergency .. __ Protection Agency Response (5105T) MaV02 Washington, DC 20450 ^ v ' ------- |