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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 selected the City of Emeryville for a Brownfields
Pilot. Historically, heavy industry was the predominant
land use in the city, but the majority of these types of
companies left the area in the 1970s. In 1996, 234 acres
in Emeryville were vacant or underused, and 213 acres
were known to have soil and groundwater contamination.
Although there is demand for residential and commercial
development, the cost and risk associated with these
brownfields have impeded their redevelopment. The
result for the city was a loss of $13.3 million in tax
revenues and 450 jobs between 1991 and 1996.
Nearly half of the city's citizens are low-income, and
more than half are minorities. Most of the city's poor live
in neighborhoods bordered by brownfields.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 01/25/1996
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot removes barriers to redevelopment
and targets brownfield properties throughout the city
and also addresses the problems of citywide
groundwater contamination.
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 9 Brownfields Team
(415)972-3091
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Web site
(http ://www .epa.gov/region9/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: City of Emeryville,CA
(510) 596-4356
Objectives
The aim of Emeryville's Pilot is to encourage residential
and commercial development by building stakeholder
confidence in a risk management-based model for
brownfields redevelopment. The model will incorporate
an emerging State of California regulatory policy of
using an area-wide rather than a parcel-by-parcel
approach to environmental cleanup.
Activities
The Pilot has:
•	Convened a broad-based Community Task Force
to serve as a forum for community participation
in decision making related to brownfields
redevelopment, and conducted Task Force
meetings and a community workshop;
•	Compiled hydrogeologic, soil, and groundwater
information for more than 500 properties from
available sources to develop a geographical
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information system (GIS) that incorporates
environmental, economic, land use, and zoning
information and a "One-Stop Shop" on the
Internet at
http ://198.31.87.5 6/bf/bf-stat-apx-c .html;
•	Established a Technical Advisory Team (TAT)
comprising city staff and consultants. The TAT
meets monthly to focus on discussion of the GIS
model, potential funding, and a proposed
amendment to the Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) for the One-Stop Shop;
•	Based on the hydrogeologic, soil, and
groundwater information, developed a regional
and local groundwater conceptual model-a
"picture" of the city's hydrogeology;
•	Drafted a regulatory framework for a Mitigation
and Risk Management Plan to incorporate a
citywide approach to groundwater cleanup. This
groundwater management plan will allow the
Emeryville Redevelopment Agency to monitor
groundwater throughout the city. The plan
presents the Pilot's goals, including facilitation,
management of sites, monitoring groundwater,
and management of groundwater;
•	Conducted citywide CPT analysis with a
matching grant from the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (USACE);
•	Obtained regulatory approval to facilitate
brownfields redevelopment based on a risk
management model enacted through an MOU
with the state Environmental Protection Agency;
•	Targeted several brownfields properties for
redevelopment; and
•	Produced a report entitled Emeryville
Brownfields Pilot Project: Status Report-Testing
Local Brownfields Redevelopment Strategies.
The Pilot is:
•	Assisting various developers with regulatory
issues, providing information through its online
One-Stop Shop;
•	Leveraging Pilot activities by assisting property
owners and developers in conducting
environmental assessments on properties
throughout the city;
•	Conducting additional groundwater analysis to
confirm results from the USACE citywide
sampling event; and
•	Developing greenway and open space plans.
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Experience with the Emeryville Pilot has been a catalyst
for related activities, including the following:
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•	The Pilot coordinated the redevelopment of
several brownfields sites.
Catellus Development Corporation constructed 220
units of mixed-income housing ($27 million) on a
four-acre brownfields site, considerably decreasing the
city's housing shortage. One hundred workers were
employed during the construction phase.
•	The Chiron Corporation, the second largest
biotechnology firm in the country, will construct
12 new buildings over the span of 20 years to
house their biotech firm, creating more than
3,000 jobs during this time. Chiron completed its
first building in the fall of 1998. The
250,000-square-foot research and development
facility cost approximately $190 million.
•	The owner of the 10-acre Grove Valve site used
the One-Stop Shop to obtain "No Further Action"
status on the property, which has been developed
into EmeryTech, a retail and distribution facility
($20 million).
•	The owner of another brownfields property used
the One-Stop Shop to determine assessment and
cleanup strategies for a five-acre site that is now
under a cleanup and abatement order.
•	The One-Stop Shop assisted regulatory agencies
in determining the cleanup requirements and low
risk associated with previous contamination at
the Emery Station I Office project ($42 million),
which will generate $600,000 in new property
taxes and create 1,200 new jobs.
•	Using the Pilot's framework for a risk
management approach to redevelopment, the
Pixar Animation Studio/Office project ($30
million) will create $800,000 in new property
taxes and create 1,200 new jobs.
•	The risk management approach is also being used
in the redevelopment of the 47-acre South
Bayfront area into Bay Street, a mixed-use
project ($50 million) wthat will create 3,200 new
jobs.
•	The risk management approach was also
instrumental in the construction of an IKEA store
($25 million), which opened in April 2000.
•	The eLofts redevelopment project ($12 million)
used the One-Stop Shop during an environmental
assessment and has provide 120 units of
mixed-use space.
•	The projects mentioned above and several others,
including Emery Station II ($30 million),
EmeryStation IV, Woodfin Suites and Courtyard
by Marriott hotels ($55 million), Promenade
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mixed-use ($15 million), Avalon senior housing
($9 million), Gateway housing ($5.3 million),
1401 Park ($7.5 million), and Hollis Business
Center ($25 million), have leveraged a total of
$644 million in redevelopment/construction
dollars.
• Emeryville was awarded a $500,000 EPA
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund grant
and a $200,000 Supplemental Assistance grant.
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 1996 Supplemental Assessment
Pilot Fact Sheet
City of Emeryville, CA
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 Emeryville supplemental
assistance for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration
Pilot and additional funding for assessments at
Brownfields properties to be used for greenspace
purposes. Historically, heavy industry was the
predominant land use in the city, but the majority of the
companies left the area in the 1970s. Nearly half of the
city's 7,400 residents are low-income, and more than half
are minorities. Most of the city's poor live in
neighborhoods bordered by brownfields. Although there
is demand for residential and commercial development,
the cost and risk associated with these brownfields have
impeded their redevelopment.
Under the original Pilot, the city took a variety of
measures to prepare parcels for redevelopment. These
measures include the development of a groundwater
management plan designed to protect public health, deep
groundwater resources, and the ecological resources of
San Francisco Bay while providing regulatory relief and
more cost certainty for property owners and developers.
In addition, the city has streamlined the land
development process by incorporating the environmental
sign-off process within the normal planning approval
process. The city also developed a "one-stop shop"
Internet-based database of environmental and general
oarcel information for nrosncctive dcvcloners. However.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 03/01/2000
Amount: $150,000
$50,000 for Greenspace
Profile: City of Emeryville, CA. The Pilot will
convert rail spurs and vacant parcels into green space
and perform environmental assessments in select
areas of the city, while also preparing brownfields for
redevelopment by addressing city-wide groundwater
issues and improving property information services.
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 9 Brownfields Team
(415)972-3091
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Web site
(http ://www .epa.gov/region9/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: City of Emeryville,CA
(510) 596-4350
Objectives
Emeryville's brownfield program is an integral part of
its groundwater management plan. Through these
coordinated efforts and with this supplemental
assistance, the city's goal is to facilitate cleanup and
redevelopment of all brownfields in the city, not just
individual sites. In addition, through the greenspace
assistance, the city will address three areas for greenway
and park creation - Doyle Street Greenway, Park
Avenue Park, and Community Garden Park.
To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:
•	Continue work on the city-wide groundwater
monitoring project that began under the original
Pilot;
•	Augment the institutional control features of the
city's "one-stop shop" Internet-based database of
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additional funds are required to complete the
implementation of the city's groundwater management
plan, augment the "one-stop shop" database, and perform
assessments for the expansion of the city's greenspace
resources.
parcel information;
•	Initiate a consensus-building process and
conduct risk analysis regarding water quality
management in the city;
•	Perform environmental assessments in the West
Park Avenue area; and
•	Facilitate greenspace in three targeted areas
through environmental assessments, community
involvement, and preliminary design plan.
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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