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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/
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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/
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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:
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•	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.
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