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As part of its mission to protect the environment and human health, the United States Environmental Protection Agency is undertaking an important initiative to revitalize land by restoring contaminated, and potentially contaminated, sites to productive economic and greenspace use. The revitalization initiative seeks to resolve barriers to reuse and promote the reuse of sites that are being or have been cleaned up. A major objective of the revitalization initiative is to instill at EPA a culture of reuse of our precious resources. To this end, EPA is working to ensure that cleanup remedies take into account a property's anticipated future use.
On this Web site you can find information about EPA's Land Revitalization Initiative, including: funding opportunities, current events, important documents and relevant publications, and tools that can help communities turn contaminated sites into safe, revitalized properties.
Programs and Offices Working on Land Revitalization
Land Revitalization Initiative
The Land Revitalization Initiative is working with EPA programs, other federal,
state, and local government agencies, and external partners to develop
and promote land revitalization measures, public information, training
for government employees, and tools to address barriers to land revitalization.
Brownfields
EPA's Brownfields Program is designed to empower states, communities,
and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a
timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields.
Superfund
Redevelopment
EPA's Superfund Redevelopment Program is working to encourage communities
at every cleanup site to consider anticipated future reuses early so that
cleanups can accommodate those uses while maintaining standards that protect
human health and the environment.
Underground Storage Tanks
EPA's Office of Underground Storage Tanks supports the cleanup and reuse
of abandoned properties contaminated with petroleum from underground storage
tanks.
Federal Facilities Restoration
and Reuse
EPA's Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office (FFRRO) works with
other federal entities to facilitate faster, more effective, and less
costly cleanup and reuse of federal facilities.
RCRA Brownfields
EPA's Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Brownfields Prevention
Initiative encourages the continued use and reuse of RCRA sites so that
the land better serves the needs of the community.
Brownfields
and Land Revitalization Technology Support Center
provides information about the use of innovative site investigation and
cleanup technology at land revitalization sites.