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Brownfields 1998 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet
Clinton, IA
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 City of Clinton for a Brownfields
Pilot. Clinton's population has been declining steadily for
years. The economic problems caused by general
population loss were recently compounded by Union
Pacific's decision to close its repair and maintenance
facility in south Clinton, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs.
The Pilot will target a 220-acre area known as Liberty
Square, located within a State-certified Enterprise Zone.
Liberty Square's 3,520 residents have a per capita
income of $9,281, and 17% of families are below the
national poverty level. Of all residents 25 years and
older, only 41% graduated from high school and only
14% have a college degree. The area's unemployment
rate is 15%.
Liberty Square includes a 40-acre rail yard, a solid waste
transfer station, and former retail and manufacturing
facilities. The area contains abandoned and unused
building space that is estimated to take up hundreds of
thousands of square feet. Despite the high demand to
develop the land, fear of contamination has hindered
development on all the properties in and adjacent to the
target area. In addition, the City believes that the
underlying aquifer is contaminated with pesticides, heavy
metals, and volatile organic compounds. The Mississippi
River and the City's water supply are at risk from this
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 07/15/1998
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot targets the 220-acre Liberty
Square area, located within a State-certified
Enterprise Zone, for assessment, cleanup, and
redevelopment.
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 7 Brownfields Team
(800)223-0425
EPA Region 7 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region7/cleanup/brown fields)
Grant Recipient: City of Clinton,IA
(319) 242-0261
Objectives
Clinton's objective is create a corridor of properties in
the Liberty Square area that is attractive to prospective
commercial and light manufacturing companies. The
City expects the project to serve as a model for
stimulating economic redevelopment. Pilot funding will
primarily be used to investigate environmental
contamination and to conduct community outreach
activities.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
•	Performing Phase I environmental assessments
on targeted properties;
•	Developing cleanup and revitalization plans for
those sites with the most redevelopment
potential; and
•	Conducting community outreach activities to
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project.
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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Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
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Response (5105T)
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Brownfields 1998 Supplemental Assessment
Pilot Fact Sheet
City of Clinton, IA
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 City of Clinton to receive
supplemental assistance for its Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot. Clinton's population (approximately
29,000) has been declining steadily for years. The
economic problems caused by the city's population loss
were compounded by Union Pacific Railroad's decision
to close its repair and maintenance facility in south
Clinton, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs. The
100-year-old repair and maintenance facility is part of
the area's extensive industrial history that is a cause for
concerns about environmental contamination. As the city
looks for land for future industrial development, it is
limited to active farmland, vacant land in residential
areas, and the brownfields areas.
The Pilot will target Liberty Square, a 220-acre area
located within a state-designated enterprise zone. Liberty
Square's 3,520 residents have a per capita income of
$9,281, and 17 percent of families are living below the
national poverty level. The area's unemployment rate is
15 percent. The Liberty Square area includes a 40-acre
rail yard, a solid waste transfer station, and former retail
and manufacturing facilities. The area contains several
hundred thousand square feet of abandoned and unused
building space. Fear of environmental contamination has
hindered development in the target area and on adjacent
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Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 04/01/2001
Amount: $150,000
Profile: City of Clinton, IA. The Pilot will target the
220-acre Liberty Square area, located within a
state-designated enterprise zone, for Phase I and
Phase II environmental assessments, continuing the
activities of the original Pilot.
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 7 Brownfields Team
(800)223-0425
EPA Region 7 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region7/cleanup/brown fields)
Grant Recipient: City of Clinton,IA
(319) 242-0261
Objectives
The original Pilot conducted Phase I environmental
assessments on 36 percent of the targeted sites. The
Pilot will use supplemental funding to double that figure
with a second round of Phase I assessments in addition
to Phase II assessments to be carried out on selected
sites. The city's objective remains the same-to remove
concerns over real and perceived contamination in the
target area through assessment and cleanup of
brownfields to facilitate the redevelopment of the
Liberty Square area.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Conduct community outreach to enhance the
participation of residents, property owners,
partners, and other stakeholders in the
brownfields project;
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less than one-half mile from the Mississippi River. The
Pilot's efforts complement the city's broader land use
planning efforts, which include the city's formal land use
plan for Liberty Square. The city is also working with the
Iowa Department of Transportation to include
infrastructure improvements in the redevelopment plans.
•	Conduct a second round of Phase I environmental
assessments on sites originally targeted by the
Pilot;
•	After the Phase I assessments have been
completed on those sites, rank the sites for Phase
II assessment prioritization; and
•	Conduct Phase II environmental assessments of
the prioritized sites.
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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