|Federal agencies that contribute to EPA's environmental goals, and how they make a difference.|
|Programs by EPA Strategic Goal
1. Climate Change and Improving Air Quality
2. Protecting America's Waters
3. Cleaning Up and Sustainable Development
4. Safety of Chemicals and Preventing Pollution
Programs by Agency
AID, ARC, CNCS, CPSC, CSB, DHS, DOC, DOD, DOE, DOI, DOJ, DOL, DOS, DOT, ED, FHFA, GSA, HHS, HUD, NASA, NRC, NSF, OSTP, SBA, TVA, USDA, USPS, USTR, VA
General Services Administration
EPA Goal 3: Cleaning Up Communities and
Advancing Sustainable Development
GSA’s Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative takes underutilized federal properties with varying degrees of contamination and helps put them back into productive use. The initiative was launched to bolster local revitalization efforts that use existing federal infrastructures.
GSA is a founding member of the Brownfields National Partnership, which encompasses 28 organizations, including more than 15 federal agencies.
GSA demonstrates its commitment to brownfield redevelopment in the following ways:
• Identifies vacant or underused federal properties whose remediation and reuse can bolster community revitalization efforts.
• Understands real estate transactions and some of the key players in the insurance, finance, and development industries.
• Knows federal disposal authorities and regulations. As an honest broker, GSA works with the EPA in better focusing its brownfield assessment and cleanup efforts to support final reuse and redevelopment of federal properties.
• Saves tax dollars when it disposes of or sells vacant or underused federal properties and represents the federal government as a good neighbor to the communities where these buildings reside.
Source(s) of Information
1. GSA Supports Urban Redevelopment
2. Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative
Related EPA Program(s)
Brownfields are defined as real properties, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse, which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. (There is some statutory exclusion to this definition). The Brownfields Program is designed to empower states, Tribes, local communities, and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together to prevent, assess, safely cleanup, and reuse Brownfields.
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabilities Act (CERCLA) as amended by the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (Pub. L.107-118)
• Government Management Reform Act (1990)
• Solid Waste Disposal Act
• Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act
• Annual Appropriations Act