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Forging Partnerships
Forging Partnerships to Further Land Reuse in Cleanup
Forging Partnerships
- Leverage Technical/ Financial Resources
- Create Demand for Cleaned Up Properties
- Improve / Coordinate Government Efforts
- Promote Sustainability
EPA’s offices and programs are forging partnerships with other agencies, organizations, and with each other to coordinate efforts and combine resources to help cleanup and revitalize contaminated land. The links below provide information on three ways these partnerships are being used to promote the goals of the Land Revitalization Initiative.
Leverage Technical/Financial Resources
Residential Reuse
EPA has worked with Habitat for Humanity
International 
to redevelop several sites around the country into residential units.
Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit organization that utilizes
volunteer labor to provide needy families with affordable housing. This
partnership is formalized in the Memorandum
of Understanding [PDF, 6 pp., 653 kb, About PDF]
between EPA and Habitat for Humanity International for Home Ownership
for Low-Income Families.
Recreational
Reuse
EPA is working with the U.S.
Soccer Foundation
to identify opportunities for building soccer fields on former Superfund
sites. The partnership was instrumental in coordinating plans for the
construction of soccer fields at the Avtex Fibers, Inc. Superfund site
in Virginia and is working to promote recreational redevelopment at several
other Superfund sites.
Center
of Expertise
In 2001, EPA entered into a cooperative agreement with the University
of Virginia which opened a new multi-disciplinary Center of Expertise
for Superfund Site Recycling. The Center will undertake investigations
in support of the redevelopment of Superfund sites for a range of beneficial
uses. The goal is to explore the relationship between site characterization
and risk assessment, risk management, and private and public sector economics
and decision-making in order to better predict the types of redevelopment
that may be feasible and desirable under different conditions, and to
facilitate that redevelopment.
Brownfields
Partnerships
EPA's Brownfields Program has also partnered with a number of other organizations
to promote the redevelopment of Brownfields properties around the country.