^f^j|	United States	Office of Emergency and	July 2000
Environmental Protection	Remedial Response
Agency	(5201G)
Superfund	Redev
DHr\ /o	Tex Tin Corporation (OU #1)
# //C/tO	Texas City, TX
EPA's Superfund Redevelopment Initiative (SRI) is a nationally coordinated effort to facilitate the return of Superfund
sites to productive use by selecting response actions consistent with anticipated use. The SRI Pilots are intended to
help local governments enhance their involvement in the Superfund decision-making process by assisting EPA in
predicting future land uses for Superfund sites. Under the Pilot Program, EPA will provide up to $100,000 in financial
assistance and/or services to local governments for specified activities. Applicants are offered several types of program
assistance, including funding through a cooperative agreement, access to facilitation services, and/or the availability of
personnel under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA).
BACKGROUND	PILOT SNAPSHOT
EPA selected Texas City, Texas, for a Superfund
Redevelopment Pilot. Texas City is home to the Tex Tin
Corporation Superfund site Operable Unit#1 (OU #1),
which was used fortin smelting during World War II.
After the war, several companies used the site to smelt
tin, copper, and other materials. The site has many
waste-handling and disposal areas contaminated with
inorganic constituents and low level radionuclides. A
minority community is located 2,000 feet from the site,
and over 25,000 people live within three miles of it.
EPA added the site to its list of hazardous waste sites
needing cleanup in September 1998.
OBJECTIVES
Texas City plans to use Pilot funds to gather the views
of the community on recycling, scrapping, or salvaging
on-site materials ratherthan burying them in on-site
landfills. The city also plans to seek comments from
the community on reuse options for the site, and to
work with EPA, the settling potentially responsible
parties, and the engineering contractor on the cleanup
design. Finally, the city will develop a site reuse
assessment plan that will take into consideration
specific reuse recommendations provided by
prospective developers whose reuse plans have
community endorsement.
Tex Tin
Corporation
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Applicant Name: Texas City, TX
Site Name: TexTin Corporation (OU #1)
Date of Selection: July 2000
Anticipated Award: Cooperative Agreement
($100,000)
Profile: The city will gather community views
on the recycling, scrapping, or salvaging of
on-site materials, and with this information,
create a reuse plan.
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Contacts:
Barbara Greenfield	Superfund Hotline:
U.S. EPA Region 6	(800) 424-9346 or
(214) 665-3111	(703) 412-9810
greenfield.barbara@epa.gov (DC Metro Area)
reuse.info@epa.gov
Visit the EPA Superfund Redevelopment Web site
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/recycle/pilot.htm

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