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EPA Goal 3: Cleaning Up Communities and Advancing Sustainable Development |
Purpose
GSA’s Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative takes underutilized federal properties with
varying degrees of contamination and helps put them back into productive use. The initiative
was launched to bolster local revitalization efforts that use existing federal infrastructures.
GSA is a founding member of the Brownfields National Partnership, which encompasses 28
organizations, including more than 15 federal agencies.
GSA demonstrates its commitment
to brownfield redevelopment in the following ways:
• Identifies vacant or underused federal properties whose remediation and reuse can bolster
community revitalization efforts.
• Understands real estate transactions and some of the key players in the insurance,
finance, and development industries.
• Knows federal disposal authorities and regulations. As an honest broker, GSA works
with the EPA in better focusing its brownfield assessment and cleanup efforts to
support final reuse and redevelopment of federal properties.
• Saves tax dollars when it disposes of or sells vacant or underused federal
properties and represents the federal government as a good neighbor to the communities
where these buildings reside.
Source(s) of Information
1. GSA Supports Urban Redevelopment
2. Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative
Related EPA Program(s)
Brownfields:
Brownfields are defined as real properties, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse, which may be complicated by the
presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. (There is some statutory exclusion
to this definition). The Brownfields Program is designed to empower states, Tribes, local communities, and other stakeholders
in economic redevelopment to work together to prevent, assess, safely cleanup, and reuse Brownfields.
Authorizing Legislation
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabilities Act (CERCLA) as amended by the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (Pub. L.107-118)
• Government Management Reform Act (1990)
• Solid Waste Disposal Act
• Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act
• Annual Appropriations Act
Other Programs under Goal 3
Other Programs from GSA