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FROM: JOHN SWEETEN
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DATE: December 13, 2005 «v��
SUBJECT: Acceptance of Additional EPA Grants for Rodeo Waterfront
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Redevelopment Director to
execute two Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act grant
agreements at $100,000 each with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
for completion of the environmental site assessment at the Rodeo Waterfront.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: No General Funds involved. The Agency has budgeted required
matching funds.
BACKGROUND: The Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency (Agency) has been
selected by the EPA to receive additional grant funding under the Small Business Liability
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act for completion of the Rodeo Waterfront environmental
site assessment. The Rodeo Waterfront, recognized as a brownfield site, is being assessed
for the potential for both petroleum and hazardous materials contamination. A brownfield is
defined as an abandoned, idled, or underused industrial or commercial facility where
expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.
The EPA's Brownfields Program allows communities and other stakeholders in economic
development to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and encourage the
sustainable reuse of brownfields. The Rodeo Waterfront environmental assessment was
awarded an EPA grant in December 2003. Those funds have been expended, with additional
work still needed. The additional EPA grants will allow the Agency to complete the
assessment. As with the previous grants, one grant is for petroleum-related contamination,
and one grant is for hazardous materials-related contamination. Once the assessment is
complete, a contamination remediation plan for the Rodeo Wnt site will prepared.
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UNANIMOUS(ABSENT ) ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN:
Contact: David Griffith (335-7232) ATTESTED C�?
JOHN SWEETEN' , AGENCY SECRETARY
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