Waste Site Cleanup & Reuse in New England
Other EPA Redevelopment Initiatives: Overview
Superfund
Redevelopment Initiative and Pilot Program
The Superfund Redevelopment Initiative is the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA) nationally coordinated effort to facilitate
the return of the country's worst hazardous waste sites to productive
use, by selecting cleanup remedies that are consistent with the
anticipated future use of the sites. The purpose of the Superfund
Redevelopment Pilot is to help local governments participate in
the and reuse of Superfund sites. Under the Pilot Program, EPA will
provide, or will seek to have potentially responsible parties provide,
up to $100,000 in financial assistance and services to local governments
for specified activities. More...(EPA
National)
RCRA
Brownfields Prevention Initiative and Pilot Projects
RCRA Brownfields pilot projects under EPA's RCRA Brownfields Prevention
Initiative are designed to test approaches that better integrate
reuse considerations into the Corrective Action cleanup process,
and to address concerns that application (or the potential application)
of RCRA to cleanup activities at brownfields may be slowing down
cleanup progress. EPA hopes to test a variety of innovative approaches
that expedite the cleanup of brownfield properties subject to RCRA
and to use the information gathered to create improvements in the
administration of the RCRA program at contaminated sites. More...(EPA
National)
USTfields
Initiative
"USTfields" applies to abandoned or underused industrial
and commercial properties where redevelopment is complicated by
real or perceived environmental contamination from federally-regulated
underground storage tanks (USTs). EPA’s Office of Underground
Storage Tanks is undertaking an USTfields initiative to address
petroleum contamination from abandoned tanks generally excluded
from Brownfields redevelopment. The initiative is also intended
to take advantage of the many advances in the Brownfields work that
could and should be applied to the numerous (and often smaller and
more rural) USTfields sites. More... (EPA National)