Region 8
Serving Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and 27 Tribal Nations
Revitalization Goals
Region 8's Revitalization goals include providing effective outreach and changing our operations to achieve tangible, on-the-ground results. Region 8 has established a set of criteria to guide resource decisions and identify the most important steps to fully realize these goals. They include:
- Early and intentional multi-program integration of cleanup activities
- Innovative approaches for revitalizing sites, communities, watersheds and ecosystems
- Intentional planning for reuse at the beginning of projects
- Measurable environmental and human health benefits
EPA is developing the Revitalization Initiative by encouraging programs to work together in geographic pilot projects and at specific sites.
In Region 8, this includes the San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado, where there are numerous sites contaminated by former mining activities. EPA's work in the San Juans will provide a menu of flexible tools, funding sources, technical expertise and regulatory options that focus on reviving local communities and the watersheds they depend upon.
The Region is also working in Denver, bringing programs together to collect data to determine the readiness of properties for reuse across the city.
In Indian Country, revitalization work is helping identify and clean up waste sites so they can be reused and contribute to the economic and social health of tribal communities.
In the long term, it is our goal that all environmental cleanup and restoration activities will focus on the productive reuse and sustained protection of land and water resources. For more information on specific projects, visit our Revitalization Fact Sheets.