Office of Site Remediation 

Enforcement (2271A) 

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Issue #14 

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Innovative Remediation 2 

Brownfields News 3 

Windfall Lien Guidance 

New Urban River Pilots 

Superfund News 4 

Bike Trail of Coeur d’Alene 

Highlights 5 

RCRA National Meeting 

Update: Lower Fox River 

In the Courts 6 

Consent Decree for Anniston 

AOC Signed for Hudson River 

Tidbits 7 

Mixed Ownership Mine Policy 

Calendar 8 

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Bush Nominates Leavitt 

for Administrator 

EPA Signs Consent Decree 

with Weyerhaeuser 

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D uring remarks at the 

Marriott Hotel in Aurora, 

Colorado on August 11, 

2003, President Bush announced 

his selection of Utah governor 

Mike Leavitt to head EPA. Bush, 

who met Leavitt when both were 

serving as governor, referred to 

Leavitt as “a trusted friend” and 

“a man who understands the obligations of environmental stewardship.” If confirmed, Leavitt would 

assume the post vacated by the 

departure of Christine Todd 

Whitman on June 27, 2003. At 

present, Marianne Horinko, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency 

Response (OSWER), is serving as 

Acting Administrator. 

On May 1, 2003, Winston 

A. Smith, Director of 

Region 4’s Waste Management Division, signed a consent decree for the Weyerhaeuser 

Company Plymouth Wood Treating Plant Superfund Site on behalf of EPA. The consent decree 

covers remedial design and remedial action for Landfill No. 1 or 

operable unit 1. 

In his acceptance speech, Leavitt 

expressed a desire to bring a moderate environmental policy approach to Washington: “There is no 

progress polarizing at the extremes, 

but there is great progress, there’s 

This consent decree is unique in 

that it is the first Region 4 agreement to include all four Superfund 

Alternative site provisions as well 

as a Region 4 provision. The 

Agency’s enforcement approach provisions were described in a guidance 

document released June 24, 2002 

entitled “Response Selection and 

Enforcement Approach for 

Superfund Alternative Sites” 
Leavitt, continued from page 1

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“I believe I can help protect this

nation’s land, air and water by

promoting a higher and more

meaningful level of cooperation

and the application of new

technologies.”

 — Mike Leavitt, Bush’s

 appointee for EPA

 Administrator

Innovative Remediation Strategy 

Planned for Emeryville 

A cross the bay from the City 

of San Francisco, a oncethriving now abandoned industrial area is being restored to productive use. Emeryville, which is just 

one square mile in size and has a population of just over 7,000, is prime real 

estate given its proximity to San Francisco and Oakland. Despite the small 

size of the area, the damage done by 

industry was extensive. There are numerous cleanup sites within 

Emeryville, including a rubber plant, 

a 22-acre mixed industrial site with a 

lime and sulfur plant and insecticideproducing plant, and a chromium plating factory. 

As part of the ongoing, city-wide remediation efforts, an innovative strategy is being used at two chromium contamination sites. At 1401 Park, the continued on page 7

great environmental progress when we 

collaborate in the productive middle.” 

As a member of the Western Governors Association, Leavitt led the development of the Enlibra Principles, a 

list of environmental stewardship 

guidelines. Enlibra, which is Latin for 

“in balance,” encourages achieving results in federal government regulations through “neighborhood solutions,” collaboration between public 

and private groups, performancebased rewards for achieving environmental results, and environmental 

education. Since the principles were 

adopted by the Western Governors 

Association, the National Governors 

Association has added their endorsement. Leavitt noted the successful 

collaboration of 13 states, 13 tribal 

nations, three federal agencies, private 

industry, and stakeholder groups in 

the effort to improve air quality in the 

Grand Canyon. He currently serves as 

co-chair of the Western Regional Air 

site of a former chromium plating factory, Electro Coating Inc., an innovative remediation strategy is being used 

to degrade chromium in the groundwater. The former owner injected molasses into an on-site chromium plume to 

stabilize it. This remedy was found to 

be effective, but its broader use would 

have been expensive since the procedure has been licensed. Three pilot 

tests injecting a different substance— 

cheese whey—into chromium produced 

even more impressive results and presented a far cheaper solution. The 

cheese whey, a free by-product of cheese 

production that is readily available, 

reduced the chromium levels by 99% 

through degrading chromium-6 to chromium-3. Given the success of the pilots, cheese whey will be used to stabilize an on-site chromium plume at 1401 

Park. Following the cleanup, a 72-unit 

residential mixed-use development will 

be built. 

A second smaller band of chromium 

contamination was recently identified 

at 5801 Hollis. The new owner of the 

recently-purchased property will conduct the site remediation and is considering the cheese whey remedial process. Once remediation is complete at 

5801 Hollis, the site will be redeveloped as office/retail space. Both sites, 

which are in low-income target areas, 

are working towards receiving Capital 

Incentives for Emeryville’s Redevelopment and Restoration (CIERRA) loans 

to fund the work. The CIERRA loans 

are funded using federal monies from 

the Brownfields Cleanup Revolving 

Loan Funds. 

Partnership, a collective of western 

state and tribal governments and 

federal agencies seeking to improve 

air visibility. 

Leavitt is currently serving his third 

term as Utah governor and was considering a run for a fourth when the 

Bush administration selected him to 

head the Agency. When originally 

asked by Bush administration officials 

several months ago if he would accept the nomination, Leavitt had declined, citing his plan to run again. In 

a written statement to his constituents, Leavitt explained that his 

change of heart was driven by the 

President’s confidence that he would 

“make a unique contribution.” He 

also considered what he had set out 

to accomplish for Utah and determined that he had completed his 

agenda. He also felt a call to service 

in the role: “I believe as a nation we 

have an abounding capacity to continue our path of environmental 

progress, and an imperative to do so 

at less cost.” 

The Senate returned from recess on 

September 2, 2003 and is expected 

to hold confirmation hearings early 

in the fall session. Confirmation requires a majority vote of the Senate. 

For additional information, contact

Dr. Richard W. Popino, OSRE,

(202) 564-5136.
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Brownfields News 

OSRE Releases Guidance on “Windfall Liens” 

More Urban River Restoration Pilots 

Selected 

O n July 16, 2003, EPA and 

DOJ issued an interim 

enforcement discretion 

policy entitled “Interim Enforcement 

Discretion Policy Concerning ‘Windfall Liens’ Under Section 107(r) of 

CERCLA.” (“Windfall Lien policy”). 

The Windfall Lien policy discusses 

implementation of new CERCLA § 

107(r), the “windfall lien” provision 

of the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization 

Act. CERCLA § 107(r) provides that 

bona fide prospective purchasers are 

not liable as owner/operators for 

CERCLA response costs, but the 

property they acquire may be subject to a windfall lien where an EPA 

response action increase the 

property’s fair market value. 

As a threshold matter the Windfall 

Lien policy explains that, absent an 

EPA response action at a site, the 

A t the Brownfields Show 

case Community Re 

search Summit in Washington, DC on July 30, 2003, EPA 

and the US Army Corps of Engineers announced that four additional rivers had been selected as 

pilots under the Urban Rivers Restoration Initiative. Each of the designated pilots was selected through 

a competitive process based on 

project merits and will receive a 

$50,000 grant. The selected rivers 

are the Passaic River in New Jersey, 

Gowanus Canal and Bay in New York, 

Fourche Creek in Arkansas, and City 

Creek in Utah. Pilot monies for the 

Passaic River, a 173-square mile 

watershed in northeast New Jersey, 

will fund a comprehensive remediation and restoration study. The 

Gowanus Canal and Bay pilot will 

bring non-profits together with businesses to help prevent pollution, 

EPA and Army Corps of Engineers officials

at the recent pilot announcement.

United States has no windfall lien on that 

property. For those situations where 

there is an EPA response action, the policy 

then covers three areas. First, the Windfall Lien policy sets forth factors that may 

lead EPA and DOJ to assert a windfall 

lien and provides examples of a number 

of situations where EPA will generally 

not pursue a windfall lien. Specific situations where EPA will generally not pursue a windfall lien include: a bona fide 

prospective purchaser acquires at fair 

market value after cleanup is complete; 

previous resolution of seller’s CERCLA 

liability included potential windfall 

from EPA’s response action at the site; or 

EPA’s only expenditures at the site are 

Brownfield monies. Additional situations 

are outlined in the guidance document. 

The second area covered by the Windfall Lien policy is EPA’s and DOJ’s approach to settling windfall liens. EPA 

will generally seek only the increase in 

fair market value attributable to 

EPA’s response action that occurs after a bona fide prospective purchaser 

acquires a property. The final area 

the Windfall Lien policy discusses are 

tools, “comfort/status” letters and 

windfall lien resolution agreements, 

that EPA may, in its discretion, provide to a bona fide prospective purchaser in order to address the bona 

fide prospective purchaser’s windfall 

lien concerns. Samples of these documents are provided as attachments 

to the policy. 

The policy, attachments, and a frequently asked questions document are 

available from EPA’s Website at:http:// 

cfpub.epa.gov/compliance/resources/ 

policies/cleanup/superfund/. 

 EPA notes that the Windfall Lien 

policy is an interim policy and it is seeking comments on the policy and its 

implementation. 

improve water quality, and restore habitat in the Borough of Brooklyn, New 

York. The pilot for Fourche Creek, which 

receives drainage from the City of Little 

Rock, includes helping businesses reduce 

pollution and restoring wetlands. For 

City Creek, some funds will be used to 

restore an ecosystem that has been enclosed beneath the streets of Salt Lake 

City for nearly a hundred years. 

The Urban Rivers Restoration Initiative is part of the EPA’s Land Revitalization Agenda, a program to clean 

waste sites and return them to productive use as commercial, industrial, 

green space, or residential properties. 

A Memorandum of Understanding 

between EPA and the Army Corps of 

Engineers entered July 2002 gave 

funding to eight urban river pilot 

projects. The initiative gives funding 

for “start-up costs” for new projects, 

including conducting studies and fostering coordination among stakeholder organizations, business communities, and agencies. An article on 

the Anacostia River pilot, a firstround recipient of grant funding, appeared in the Summer 2003 issue of 

CleanupNews. This and other past 

issues can be viewed online at: 

http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/newsletters/cleanup/ 

cleanupnews.html. 

For additional information, contact

Stephen Luftig, Senior Advisor for Reuse

Programs, (703) 603-9931.

By Greg Madden, OSRE-PPED
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Superfund News 

Bikes Hit the Trail at Coeur d’Alene 

The Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes

snakes alongside the Coeur d’Alene

River.

T hrough an innovative reuse 

strategy, 72 miles of former 

Idaho railroad right-of-way is 

being reused as bike trails. The nearly 

completed Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes, 

which winds alongside the Coeur 

d’Alene Lake and Coeur d’Alene River, 

offers views of isolated Idaho countryside, historic mining towns, and the 

Bitterroot divide. There are a variety 

of conveniences along the trail including picnic tables, benches, and toilets. The trail is being managed by 

Idaho State Parks and the Coeur 

d’Alene Tribe. 

The Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes was 

created using an existing railway 

right-of-way owned by Union Pacific 

Railroad. The original railway was 

built in the late 1800s when silver was 

discovered, and they were used to move 

ores and concentrates from the mining sites. To construct the railway, the 

company used readily available materials, including mine tailings and 

waste rock that contained low levels 

of heavy metals. 

In an Engineering Evaluation/Cost 

Analysis, determined that the most 

effective way to address the heavy 

metal contamination would be to install asphalt and/or vegetative barriO n August 20, 2003, EPA and 

DOJ issued guidance on the 

CERCLA Municipal Solid 

Waste Exemption. The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields 

Revitalization Act (SBLRBRA), 

signed in January 2002, gave relief 

from liability for response costs under 

CERCLA Section 107 to certain residences, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations who generated 

CERCLA Municipal Solid Waste 

Exemption Guidance Released 

ers, remove or dispose of some contamination, and control access 

to the trail through signs, outreach 

materials, and education. The reuse of the railway was a cost-effective, safe solution that eliminated 

the need to remove low-level contamination. The asphalt barrier 

poured on top of the tailings and 

waste rock protects riders from interacting with the contamination 

and limits contamination migration. For the area of trail near 

Chatcolet Lake on the Coeur 

d’Alene Tribe Reservation, it was 

determined that waste materials 

should be removed and replaced 

with non-contaminated materials. 

To ensure public safety, a trail 

guide offers common sense suggestions for limiting exposure including remaining on the trail, washing hands and face before eating, 

and removing dirt from clothing, 

shoes, equipment, children’s toys, 

and pets. 

Once complete, the trail will cover 

almost the entire width of the northern Panhandle of Idaho, from 

Plummer to Mullan. Fifteen miles 

of trail are still under construction. 

As part of the remaining construction, the historic Chatcolet Bridge is 

being retrofitted to allow a 30-foot 

clearance for marine traffic. The original bridge was only 18 feet above the 

lake and needed to rotate to allow 

boats to pass. 

The Rails to Trails project involved 

the coordination of EPA, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, 

and the Coeur d’Alene Tribe. The 

Wallace-Mullan Branch right-of-way 

is just one of a number of Superfund 

sites being addressed in this former 

mining area, including the Coeur 

d’Alene Basin and Bunker Hill Superfund sites. 

For additional information, contact

Ed Moreen, EPA Coeur d’Alene Basin

Representative, (208) 664-4588.

municipal solid waste (MSW) at 

Superfund sites on the National 

Priorities List. The interim guidance discusses the statutory exemption, identifies some factors to 

be considered in the exercise of enforcement discretion under the exemption, and addresses the relationship of the exemption to existing EPA policies regarding MSW 

parties. The newly released guidance, titled “Interim Guidance on the 

Municipal Solid Waste Exemption 

Under CERCLA § 107(p),” is available online at: http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/resources/policies/ 

cleanup/superfund/interim-mswexempt.pdf. 

For additional information, contact

Susan Boushell, OSRE-PPED,

(202) 564-2173 or Doug Dixon,

OSRE-RSD, (202) 564-4232.
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Highlights 

RCRA National Meeting Focuses on 

Resource Conservation Challenge 

On July 28, 2003, EPA and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced a second Record of 

Decision for the Lower Fox River and 

Green Bay site. The Record of Decision outlines the remedies for the remaining operable units (OUs): Little 

Rapids to De Pere (OU3), De Pere to 

Green Bay (OU4), and Green Bay 

(OU5). The recommended remedy includes dredging and disposing of 

6.6 million cubic yards of sediment 

from the portion of the river between Little Rapids and Green 

Bay. Natural attenuation has been 

selected for Green Bay since the 

sediment removal upriver will reduce the migration of PCBs into the 

bay. The cost for implementing 

these remedies is expected to reach 

$400 million. 

Update: Lower Fox River and Green Bay 

Barry Breen, Acting Assistant

Administrator of OSWER, offered

opening remarks at the conference.

A detailed article about the Lower 

Fox River and Green Bay site appeared in the Winter 2003 issue of 

CleanupNews. To view this and other 

past articles, go to the CleanupNews

website at: http://www.epa.gov/Compliance/resources/newsletters/cleanup/ 

cleanupnews.html. 

For additional information, contact

James Hahnenberg, EPA Region 5,

(312) 353-4213.

A t the 2003 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act 

National Meeting on August 

12-15 in Washington, D.C., participants attended more than one hundred 

sessions, including a mock trial, 

roundtable discussions, and lively debates. This year’s meeting highlighted the Resource Conservation 

Challenge (RCC), a national effort to 

find flexible resource conservation 

strategies through pollution prevention, waste reduction and energy recovery activities. 

The keynote speaker, internationally renowned designer William 

McDonough, asserted that system and 

product design can be environmentally 

sound as well as socially and economically valuable. In his opening remarks, Barry Breen, Acting Assistant 

Administrator for the Office of Solid 

Waste and Emergency Response, told 

participants that the RCC infuses 

waste reduction efforts “with a deeper 

sense of shared responsibility and 

partnership.” “We’ve developed a 

whole new attitude toward waste,” 

Breen said. “In many cases it’s not 

inevitable. It can be reduced, minimized, eliminated, sometimes in 

ways that pay for themselves. And 

in some cases waste can be reused, 

thus saving the cost of disposal.” 

EPA honored new Waste Minimization Partnership Program members, 

including Dupont, GE, Uniseal Incorporated, U.S. Steel, Hewlett Packard 

Caribe, and the Tobyhanna Army Depot (the program’s first federal facility). The program encourages generators of secondary materials and waste 

materials to partner with EPA and 

States to establish goals to reduce and 

minimize waste generation, particularly waste containing 39 priority contaminants. 

Also, Ashland Incorporated was recognized for taking the Environmental 

Indicator pledge and committing to 

meet both the “human exposures” and 

“groundwater migration” indicators at 

all 21 of their facilities. 

The conference proceedings will be 

available through the Air and Waste 

Management Association website at: 

http://www.awma.org. 

For additional information, contact

Janette Petersen, OSW, (703) 308-7242.
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Weyerhaeuser, continued from page 1

Judge Approves 

Consent Decree 

for Anniston 

PCBs 

On August 4, 2003, the Honorable 

U.W. Clemon of the US District Court 

for the Northern District of Alabama 

approved a consent decree for the 

Anniston PCBs site. Through the 

agreement, Solutia, Inc. and 

Pharmacia Corporation (formerly 

Monsanto) agreed to develop a work 

plan for the accelerated cleanup of 

properties in residential areas. The 

parties will submit the work plan to 

EPA, which will ensure the plan 

meets strict standards for protecting 

human health and the environment. 

Given the significant risk to human 

health posed by the PCB contamination, EPA will require Solutia and 

Pharmacia to meet the stringent requirements for Superfund sites and 

push for accelerated cleanup. Based 

on public comment, the revised agreement added the removal of PCBs from 

northeast Alabama neighborhoods. 

In the 1990s, site assessments by 

EPA, the Alabama Department of 

Public Health, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, 

the Agency for Toxic Substances and 

Disease Registry (ATSDR) identified 

a human health risk. Soil on many 

residential properties tested positive 

for PCBs, and blood tests showed elevated PCB levels. ATSDR recently 

Update: 

Administrative 

Order on 

Consent Signed 

for Hudson River 

On August 13, 2003, EPA signed 

an Administrative Order on Consent (AOC) with General Electric 

Company (GE) for remedial design 

and cost recovery at the Hudson 

River PCBs Superfund Site. As part 

of the agreement, GE agreed to design a dredging project to meet the 

specifications of the February 2002 

Record of Decision and to immediately pay EPA over $15 million as 

partial payment for oversight and 

work performed. As part of developing the plan, the AOC requires 

GE to create a Baseline Monitoring 

(OSWER 92-08.0-17). According to 

the guidance, Superfund Alternative 

sites are sites where the site hazard 

ranking is sufficient to warrant a 

Superfund listing, but EPA has decided to delay listing so an agreement can be negotiated with the potentially responsible party (PRP). In 

such an agreement, the PRP agrees 

not to challenge EPA if the Agency 

decides to list the site after only partial cleanup. The PRP must also 

agree not to challenge a natural resource damage claim using a Statute of Limitation defense. Other provisions allow for technical assistance 

funding for communities in the absence of Superfund funding and financial assurance that the cleanup 

work will be completed. In this consent decree, the PRP, Weyerhaeuser, 

agreed to the four provisions. For 

additional protection, Region 4 

added a provision that further limits Weyerhaeuser’s right to contest 

listing, and the company signed off 

on this provision as well. 

There are several advantages to 

both EPA and the PRP to designating a site Superfund Alternative. For 

one, the PRP agrees to fund site 

cleanup therefore EPA avoids using 

Superfund Trust funds. Since the 

provisions ensure that an effective 

cleanup will be conducted, the 

cleanup is as effective as if 

Superfund funds were used. The 

benefit for the PRP is that they avoid 

the stigma of having a “Superfund” 

site, and they can demonstrate to 

the public that they are cooperating 

with EPA. 

The Weyerhaeuser site is located 

on 2,400 acres in Martin County in 

eastern North Carolina. The site 

includes the landfill, a former chlorine production plant, and Welch 

Creek. The contamination of the 

landfill resulted from their illegal 

dumping of mercury cells from the 

chlorine production plant. The remedy for Landfill No. 1 will likely cost 

$12 million. 

For additional information, contact

Elizabeth Davis, Region 4,

(404) 562-9696.

released the final blood sampling results from 2,700 Anniston residents 

and found that nearly one-fifth of 

residents had high levels of PCBs. 

An October 2002 Administrative Order on Consent required Solutia to 

sample for PCBs in west Anniston 

and remediate any property where 

short-term exposure might present 

a health risk. 

PCB production at the Anniston 

site occurred from 1929 through 

1971. During that time, wastewater containing PCBs was discharged 

into a ditch, and a variety of hazardous and nonhazardous wastes 

were improperly disposed of in landfills. These disposal methods 

caused the contamination to migrate 

from the 70-acre plant to the surrounding community. 

For additional information, contact

Helena Healey, OSRE-RSD,

(202) 564-5124.

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Tidbits 

Emeryville, continued from page 2

Mixed Ownership 

Mine and Mill 

Sites Policy 

Announced 

On June 24, 2003, the Federal Facilities Enforcement Office announced 

that most mixed ownership mines and 

mill sites should not be included in 

the Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability Act Section 120(c) Federal Agency 

Hazardous Waste Compliance 

Docket. The Docket provides the public with a published list of federal facilities along with any action taken. 

Exceptions could be made on a siteby-site basis by the lead agency. 

Mixed ownership sites have both 

federal and private owners. This complex ownership pattern at some sites 

results from the General Mining Law 

of 1872, which gave private party 

claimants use of properties for mineral mining. Under the law, the claimant had the right to mine the land, 

but the federal government retained 

the title. The Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976 established 

that private parties could continue to 

use federal land under the regulations 

of the managing agency. Under the 

act, a “claim” was private property 

subject to taxes and could be sold, 

leased, or bequeathed. For abandoned 

claims, property rights were restored 

to the controlling Federal Land Managing Agencies, typically the Forest 

Service or Bureau of Land Management. Through “patenting,” some 

claimants purchased their properties. 

When abandoned, patented properties 

remain private property rather than 

reverting to federal control. As a result, there are thousands of private 

property abandoned mine or mill sites 

within federal boundaries. 

The mixed ownership policy acknowledges that most contamination 

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Delineation and Assessment Work 

Plan, and Cultural and Archeological 

Assessments. 

An article on the Community Involvement Plan for Hudson River appeared in the Summer 2003 issue of 

CleanupNews. To view this and other 

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at mine and mill sites results from private parties, often involving multiple 

parties. Rather than being listed as 

federal facilities on the Docket, all sites 

will be listed in CERCLIS, a database 

of reported releases of hazardous substances. The policy does not obviate 

the federal government’s responsibility as a potentially responsible party. 

This policy is not legally binding and 

is only intended to guide federal personnel through the decision-making 

process. 

For additional information, contact

Joe Tieger, OSRE,(202) 564-4276.

EPA has acknowledged the positive 

progress at Emeryville by providing the 

city with brownfields funding three 

times. In 1996, the city was selected 

as a Brownfields Assessment Pilot and 

provided a $200,000 grant. More recently, the site was given a $500,000 

brownfields loan, referred to as a 

Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan, 

which is being used for certain target 

areas of the city where income levels 

are the lowest. In 2003, Emeryville 

was selected for a brownfields assessment grant, a designation that brings 

$350,000 for assessing hazardous substances and $200,000 for petroleum. 

The redevelopment of the city has 

generated over $700 million in new investments over the past ten years, 

spurred job growth, and enticed technology corporations to consider moving to the area. Pixar Animation Studios, the animation company that created Toy Story and Finding Nemo, chose 

to build its $88 million headquarters 

in Emeryville. 

For additional information, contact

Ignacio Dayrit, Emeryville Project Manager,

(510) 596-4350.
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76th Annual Water Environment 

Federation Technical Exhibition 

and Conference 

Los Angeles, CA 

http://www.weftec.org/ 

October 22-24, 2003 

ASTSWMO Annual Meeting 

Washington, DC 

Contact: Tom Kennedy, (202) 624-5828 

October 27-29, 2003 

Brownfields 2003: “Growing a 

Greener America” 

Portland, OR 

http://www.brownfields2003.org 

November 17-18, 2003 

The Business of Brownfields 

Conference: Technical, Legal 

and Financial. 

Pittsburgh, PA 

http://www.eswp.com/brownfields/ 

November 17-21, 2003 

National Registry of 

Environmental Professionals 

Orlando, FL 

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