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Brownfields 2002 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet
City of Spokane, 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 has selected the City of Spokane for a Brownfields
Assessment Pilot. Spokane (population 195,629) is
located in eastern Washington. Historically, the city was
a booming agriculture and mining center. In the
mid-1950s, light manufacturing began to dominate the
city's economy. In recent years, however, a number of
large businesses have left the area, leaving many
potentially contaminated manufacturing facilities in the
downtown, near valley, and northeastern sections of the
city. Most of Spokane's inventoried brownfields are
found in the downtown core along existing railroad
rights-of-way that once were used for industrial
purposes. Development in outlying areas has drawn
industries away from the inner city, leaving many
abandoned buildings, blighted neighborhoods, and
untaxed properties. This Pilot will focus on the
Broadway & Maple area (population 20,718) and the
Hillyard/North Market Street corridor (population
14,585) in Spokane's downtown district. Preliminary
investigations have uncovered metals and petroleum
contamination at the Broadway & Maple site. The
Hillyard/North Market corridor was an aluminum
smelting and petroleum refining area. Now it is a
Community Development Neighborhood designated by
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 05/01/2002
Amount: $200,000
Profile: City of Spokane, Washington. This Pilot
targets brownfields in two blighted areas of the city's
downtown district for assessment.
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: City of Spokane,WA
(509)625-6282
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Objectives
The Pilot's objective is to revitalize brownfields
properties by addressing potential health risks and
restoring economic vitality to areas where brownfields
exist. To accomplish this objective, the city plans to
identify brownfields sites, conduct assessments, and
effectively involve the stakeholders, including
community groups, investors, lenders, developers, and
other affected parties, to address brownfields site
assessment and barriers to cleanup.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
•	Convening stakeholders in a community
visioning process;
•	Identifying and analyzing barriers to
redevelopment and devising an implementation
strategy for removing the barriers and preparing
brownfield sites for assessment:
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Empowerment Zone, where the median annual
household income is $17,000, about half the state's
average. In a one-mile radius of the Broadway & Maple
site, 25 percent of the population lives in poverty and 8.5
percent are minorities. In a one-mile radius of the
Hillyard/North Market Site, 20 percent of the population
lives in poverty and 7 percent are minorities.
•	Identifying brownfields that impede development;
•	Finalizing a list of potential sites and exploring
funding strategies for them;
•	Conducting environmental assessments; and
•	Securing cleanup funding.
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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