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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 Region 9 has selected the City of Pomona for a
Regional Brownfields Pilot. Pomona has a population of
149,600 and is the fourth-largest city in Los Angeles
County. The multi-cultural community is 54% Latino,
12% African American, and 8% Asian. Downtown
Pomona is home to an arts colony, an antique row, a
farmers market, and one of two mass transit train stations
(MetroLink) located within the City.

The City, once predominantly a manufacturing and
industrial hub, has experienced a large decline in these
industries as well as a decline in the defense industry.
General Dynamics, once the City's largest private-sector
employer, is now the site of one of the City's largest
brownfields (200 acres). The site was built in 1952 to
develop and build weapons for the U.S. Navy. From a
1980s' peak of 10,000 employees, all site production and
operations have now ceased.

Pilot Snapshot

Date of Announcement: 09/01/1997
Amount: $100,000

Profile: The Pilot targets brownfields in eleven
Redevelopment Project Areas and portions of the
City within the Los Angeles Revitalization Zone.

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: Pomona, CA
(909) 620-2050

Objectives

The Pilot's target locations include eleven
Redevelopment Project Areas and the portions of the
City within the Los Angeles Revitalization Zone
(LARZ), which offers various tax incentives for
qualified businesses located in the zone. The LARZ
program was enacted to help targeted communities
recover from the area's Spring 1992 civil unrest by
offering incentives to invest in and hire residents from
these communities. The City will use Pilot funds to
conduct a detailed analysis of all vacant, underused,
potentially contaminated sites in the City. The City will
compile this information in a database, including
information such as existing land use, prior land use,
LARZ opportunities, and available financing assistance.
The Pilot plans to make this information available to the
public via the Internet.

Activities

The Pilot will:

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•	Assess the City's brownfields problem by
performing site analysis, including characterizing
each site and providing cleanup
recommendations;

•	Build on existing public/private partnerships that
are specific to brownfields revitalization;

•	Initiate a Community Action Plan to involve and
educate the community living and working in
brownfields areas;

•	Provide brownfields assessment information to
business owners, potential developers, and
residents through the Regional Environmental
Business Resource and Assistance Center
(REBRAC), a not-for-profit economic
development program of Fullerton College; and

•	Develop a readily accessible, on-line database
system of brownfields site information.

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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Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450

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Response (5105T)

Solid Waste

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