United States	Office of Solid Waste	EPA 510-F-02-013

Environmental Protection	And Emergency Response	June 2002

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Underground	Stora

Tanks And Brownfields Sites

IOWA/Des Moines

EPA's USTfields Initiative funds states and tribes to conduct pilot projects in brownfields communities to assess and dean up petroleum
contamination from federally-regulated underground storage tanks (USTs) at idle or abandoned commercial properties. Petroleum
contamination has generally been excluded from funding under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act (CERCLA) and has not, therefore, been covered under EPA's Brownfields Program. In 2002, EPA's Office of Underground
Storage Tanks (OUST) competitively selected 40 state and tribal USTfields Pilots. In each pilot, the state will work with a local
community or the tribe will work with its EPA Region to address identified sites. Each pilot is awarded up to $100,000 of Leaking
Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust funds to assess and dean up petroleum-contaminated sites; as a result, the sites will be ready
for future reuse.

BACKGROUND

The State of Iowa will work with the City of Des Moines to
target sites in the Drake Neighborhood, which is in north
central Des Moines. There are several properties along
the neighborhood's main roads that are vacant or
underutilized and have several underground storage tanks
that may have leaked. As part of its Neighborhood Based
Service Delivery Program, the city's Economic
Development and Community Development departments
are working with the community to remove blight, decrease
crime, beautify the area, promote cultural diversity, and
improve the overall quality of life in the community. The
neighborhood is a Brownfields Showcase Community.

OBJECTIVES

USTfields Pilot funds will allow the State of Iowa to work
with the City of Des Moines to assess and clean up
petroleum and MTBE contamination from underground
storage tanks at multiple properties within the Drake
Neighborhood. After the sites are cleaned up, the
neighborhood association will develop an inventory of
mixed use, commercial, and pedestrian-friendly residential
properties available for redevelopment.

Applicant Name: State of Iowa

Local Partner: City of Des Moines

Date of Selection: June 2002

Profile: Iowa will work with the City of Des Moines
to assess and clean up several properties with
petroleum contamination within the Drake
Neighborhood.

Contacts:



EPA Region 7

Iowa Department of Natural



Resources

Janet Hallier

James Humeston

(913) 551-7532

(515) 281-8135

For further information,

go to www.epa.gov/oust/

EPA Region 7

EPA USTfields INITIATIVE

EPA has not yet negotiated the Cooperative Agreements with states and tribes to fund these pilots; therefore, activities are subject to change.

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