SEPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Emergency and
Remedial Response
(5201 G)
July 2000
Pilots
Superfund	Redev
Utah (Multiple Sites)
Utah Department of
Environmental Quality
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
EPA selected the State of Utah's Department of
Environmental Quality for a Superfund Redevelopment
Pilot. Utah is home to several Superfund sites including:
Jacobs Smelter Operable Unit #2 (OU#2), International
Smelter, Intermountain Oil, Flagstaff/Davenport Smelters,
and Bountiful/Woods Cross 500 South PCE Plume
Superfund sites. Jacobs Smelter OU #2's lead and silver
smelters, which date from the 1800s, contaminated the
countryside and town of Stockton, Utah. International
Smelter was a landfill for a copper smelter, and now has
slag and heavy metal contamination. Intermountain Oil
was a waste oil refinery which operated from 1957 until
1993. The sludge pits at the site have high levels of
waste oil, lead, solvents, dichloroethene and
trichloroethene. Flagstaff/Davenport Smelters were lead
smelters that operated in the late 1800s and contaminated
what are now residential properties with heavy metals. The
Bountiful/Woods Cross 500 South PCE site has a PCE
plume in a commercial and residential area.The plume
may have multiple sources. The sites have either been
added to EPA's list of hazardous waste sites needing
cleanup, or are now being evaluated for addition to the list.
Some sites are near Brownfields Showcase Communities
orBrownfields Pilots.
OBJECTIVES
The Utah Department of Environmental Quality plans to
use Pilot funds to obtain participation of various parties in
Utah's development and reuse of the sites following
cleanup. They will involve the state in encouraging
potentially responsible parties and landowners to consider
redevelopment and reuse during the early stages of
cleanup. State Project Managers at each site will be
trained and tasked to encourage participation and to
incorporate redevelopment in each stage of the cleanup
process.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Intermountain
Oil
Bountiful/Woods
Cross 500 South
PCE Plume
Int'l Smelter
staff/Davenport Smelters
s Smelter OU #2

Applicant Name: Utah Department of
Environmental Quality
Site Names: Multiple Sites
Date of Selection: July 2000
Anticipated Award: Cooperative Agreement
($100,000)
Profile: The Utah Department of
Environmental Quality will encourage
landowners and other stakeholders in the
participation of redeveloping the sites.
Contacts:
Victor Ketellapper
U.S. EPA Region 8
(303) 312-6578
ketellapper.victor@epa.gov
Superfund Hotline:
(800) 424-9346 or
(703) 412-9810
(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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