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SUBJECT: Acceptance of EPA Grant for Rodeo Waterfront
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION: ACCEPT two $100,000 grants from the United States
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide funding for environmental assessments at
the Rodeo Waterfront
FINANCIAL IMPACT: None. U.S. EPA Funds will be used for the project.
BACKGROUND: Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency has been selected by the
US EPA to receive grant funding under the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
Revitalization Act for the Rodeo Waterfront. A brownfield is abandoned, idled, or underused
industrial or commercial facility where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or
perceived environmental contamination. EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states,
communities, and other stakeholders in economic development to work together to prevent,
assess, safely clean up, and the sustainable reuse of brownfields. Because the Rodeo
waterfront site has potential of both petroleum and hazardous materials contamination, the
Agency received $100,000 for petroleum related contamination and $100,000 for hazardous
material related contamination. The grants will be implemented simultaneojusly.
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BACKGROUND (continued): The EPA funds will be used for a Phase I and Phase 11
environmental assessment, the development of a remediation plan, and community outreach
associated with the process. Community outreach will include attending local community
group meetings, hosting three project update workshops, and working with five local youth
writers to create a newsletter to inform Rodeo residents.
The Redevelopment Agency is working with the community to reestablish the Rodeo
Waterfront as an economic and social center for Rodeo with a working marina, commercial
and retail opportunities, and park and open space. The environmental assessment will be
combined with a marina feasibility study and an economic analysis as a comprehensive
Predevelopment Assessment Process to provide the Agency with relevant data and
implementation plans necessary for revitalization. It is the Agency's intent to use the
information provided from the predevelopment assessment process as a base map for a
future community planning process that incorporates land use planning and design guidelines.