Key Redevelopment Activities

Superfund Reuse Success Stories

For Reuse Success Stories click on the pictures below.

Photo - Netscape Communication's newest campus

Fairchild Semiconductor - Mountain View, CA

Pacific Sound Resources - Seattle, WA

Photo - The William Lehman Operations and Maintenance Center

Miami Drum Services - Miami, FL

EPA has recognized that as part of its mission to protect human health and the environment, it will continue to refine and expand its efforts to make its cleanup activities consistent with community goals to reuse these sites. To help local communities return contaminated Superfund sites to productive uses, Superfund Redevelopment has, over the past decade, undertaken a wide array of activities, partnerships, and initiatives, including:

Return To Use
Redevelopment Partnerships
Measuring Progress
Superfund Redevelopment Pilots

The Return to Use (RTU) Initiative

EPA developed the Return to Use (RTU) Initiative in late 2004 as part of the Superfund Redevelopment Initiative (SRI). The RTU Initiative is designed to remove barriers to appropriate reuse at Superfund sites where cleanup has been completed. Barriers to appropriate reuse include:

lack of understandable information about the site
stigma of being a Superfund site
liability concerns
understanding what uses might be appropriate for the site.

More information on the RTU Initiative

Redevelopment Partnerships

Superfund Redevelopment has undertaken a series of efforts to identify partnership opportunities to assist in the Superfund redevelopment process. Learn more ...

Measuring Progress

While the Agency's primary objective is to protect human health and the environment, cleaning up sites has, in many cases, generated positive reuse outcomes and impacts. As a means to assess these reuse outcomes, EPA has developed a series of measures to manage and track the performance of previous and ongoing redevelopment work. Learn More...

Superfund Redevelopment Pilots