PILOT SNAPSHOT |
| Date of Award: May 1998
Amount: $200,000 |
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Site Profile: The Pilot targets the 970-acre
Ballard Interbay Northend Manufacturing and Industrial Center
(BINMIC). |
BACKGROUND
EPA has selected the Port of Seattle for a Brownfields Pilot. The
Pilot focuses on the 970-acre Ballard Northend Manufacturing and
Industrial Center (BINMIC), which was established to ensure that
adequate accessible industrial land would be available to promote
a diversified employment base. BINMIC is home to more than 1,000
businesses and 16,000 employees. Along with the Environmental
Impact Statement, the BINMIC Industrial Area Plan is the nation's
first comprehensive blueprint for industrial sustainability in
an urban setting.
BINMIC faces major challenges. Rising land prices and uncertainty
regarding long-term cleanup liability threaten BINMIC's ability
to clean up brownfields and remain an industrial area. The need
for scarce expansion space has forced successful businesses to
move out of BINMIC. The Pilot is designed to stop the exodus of
expanding business and ensure growth within BINMIC by determining
soil cleanup levels that are tied to state-approved presumptive
remedies. This will introduce certainty into developers' estimates
of cleanup costs, which will facilitate the cleanup and reuse
of BINMIC brownfields.
OBJECTIVES
The objective of the BINMIC Industrial Area Plan is to facilitate
the cleanup, redevelopment, and reuse of historic BINMIC industrial
properties to retain industries and add 3,800 family-wage jobs
by the year 2014. The Brownfields Pilot will support this objective
by determining industrial-based soil cleanup levels for BINMIC
brownfields, linking them to specific, ecologically-sound presumptive
remedies, and thus provide property owners with more certainty
in estimating cleanup costs.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
- Assessing the nature and extent of contamination at BINMIC properties;
- Comparing representative site conditions to appropriate cleanup
technologies;
- Compiling and obtaining state approval of a conditions checklist
for site cleanup activities;
- Conducting community outreach through newsletters and workshops;
and
- Documenting local community concerns.
This project will foster a unique partnership between the Port of Seattle, City of Seattle, the Neighborhood Business Council, community groups, the state, and the EPA.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated; therefore,
activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
CONTACTS:
Port of Seattle
(206) 728-3731
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 10
(206) 553-6523
Visit
the EPA Region 10 Brownfields web site.
Visit the EPA Brownfields web site at: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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