PILOT SNAPSHOT |
| Date of Announcement: July 1998
Amount: $200,000 |
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Profile: The Pilot targets brownfields located
along the 20-mile Alameda Corridor for assessment and redevelopment.
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BACKGROUND
EPA has selected the City of Los Angeles for a Brownfields Pilot.
The Pilot designation follows as part of EPA's commitment to Los
Angeles as a Brownfields Showcase Community. Los Angeles is an
ethnically diverse city of more than 3.6 million citizens. In
some areas, nearly 40% of the population lives below the poverty
level and unemployment is higher than 17%. The City has thousands
of vacant parcels and underused facilities along commercial and
industrial corridors with suspected contamination. A study conducted
by the City's Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) in South Central
Los Angeles found 344 potentially contaminated sites within a
three-mile radius. Because these sites are located on industrially
zoned property near major transportation routes, their economic
potential is exceptional. The Alameda Corridor is a 20-mile route
between the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports and rail distribution
yards located southeast of the Los Angeles Civic Center. Improvements
in the Alameda Corridor are expected to make the area more attractive
to business and promote brownfields redevelopment, local job creation,
and community revitalization.
OBJECTIVES
Los Angeles' objective is to continue integrating partnerships with Federal
agencies, the community, and others in the City's brownfields
program. Productive reuse of brownfields will include redevelopment,
open space, housing, education, job training, energy efficiency,
and social and environmental equity issues. Los Angeles plans
to accomplish its objective through an interdepartmental team
structure which will identify, coordinate and target brownfields
resources. The City will encourage the use of State Voluntary
Cleanup Agreements when appropriate.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
- Leveraging Los Angeles' designation as a Brownfields Showcase Community to form new Federal partnerships;
- Developing strategies and mechanisms to address barriers to brownfields redevelopment, including using the Los Angeles Brownfields Revitalization Fund and the Federal Brownfields Tax Incentive;
- Documenting and integrating brownfields lessons learned into the City's redevelopment process; and
- Developing effective community participation processes which
are sensitive to environmental justice issues based on recommendations
of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated; therefore,
activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
CONTACTS:
Environmental Affairs Department
City of Los Angeles
(213) 580-1045
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 9
(415) 744-2237
Visit the EPA Region 9 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/index.html
For further information, including specific Pilot contacts,
additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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