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Targeted Brownfields Assessments

What is a Brownfield?
The Brownfields Revitalization Act, signed by the President on January 11, 2002, defines Brownfields as “real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant.”   The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Brownfields Program supports the cleanup and revitalization of brownfields in local communities.

What is a Targeted Brownfields Assessment?
A Target Brownfields Assessment (TBA) is a service the EPA Region 6 Brownfields Team provides to communities to support their brownfields projects.  The services include site environmental assessments and investigations, and site cleanup planning.  The states located in Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas) have similar programs to provide environmental assessment services.

Who Can Request a TBA?
Public (local units of governments), quasi-public (community development organizations), Tribal governments, and non-profit entities can request EPA TBA services. 

Privately owned sites can be submitted as candidate sites, if the redevelopment will result in significant benefits to the general public.  Land owners (private or public) must voluntarily sign a site access consent agreement for TBA services to be provided.

How to Request a TBA?
You should first contact your local governmental agencies to determine whether a community wide brownfields assessment grant exists in the area.  If a community wide brownfields assessment grant recipient does not exist in the area or the grant recipient can not or chooses not to provide the requested assessment service, the respective state should be contacted next.  The State Brownfields Coordinators are listed below.   If the state can not or chooses not to provide the assessment service, the site can then be referred to EPA Region 6. 

To request TBA services from the EPA Region 6 Brownfields Team submit a letter that briefly describes the site (name, street address, size in acres, who owns the site, summary of known history, suspected contamination issue), the reuse or redevelopment plan, the status of the request to the State Brownfields Coordinator, and provides a contact point for obtaining additional information.  The TBA request letter should be sent to:

Monica Smith, Brownfields Team Leader (6SF-VB)
U.S. EPA Region 6
1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200
Dallas, TX 75202-2733

State Brownfields Coordinators

ARKANSAS
Tamara Almand
Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality
501-682-0867
Almand@adeq.state.ar.us
http://www.adeq.state.ar.us/hazwaste/bf/default.htm

LOUISIANA
Roger Gingles or Duane Wilson
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
225-219-3192
http://deq.louisiana.gov/portal/Default.aspx?tabid=266

NEW MEXICO
Alex Puglisi
New Mexico Environment Department
505-827-2754
alex.puglisi@state.nm.us
www.nmenv.state.nm.us/gwb/New_Pages/ros_files/vrp_new/BF_about_us.htm

OKLAHOMA
Rita R. Kottke
rita.kottke@deq.ok.gov
Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality
405-702-5157
www.deq.state.ok.us/lpdnew/brownfindex.html

Patricia Billingsley
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
405-522-2758
p.billingsley@occemail.com

TEXAS
Mike Frew (Hazardous Sites)
Texas Department of Environmental Quality
512-239-5872
Mfrew@tceq.state.tx.us
www.tceq.state.tx.us/remediation/bsa/bsa.html#site

Aimee Beveridge (Petroleum Sites)
Railroad Commission of Texas
512-463-7995
aimee.beveridge@rrc.state.tx.us
http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/environmental/environsupport/brownfield/index.php

Information

If you have questions about EPA’s TBA program, please contact Dorothy Crawford at 214-665-2771, crawford.dorothy@epa.gov.

EPA TBA Brochure (PDF, 2 pages, 433 KB) (About PDF)

 

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