EnvironmentLA

Background: The City’s Brownfields Revitalization Program provides assistance to a wide range of individual development sites throughout the City of Los Angeles. The Brownfields Site Assistance Work Program, under the direction of the Brownfields Executive Team, is carried out by the Brownfields Resource Team, consisting of senior staff from the Environmental Affairs Department, the Community Redevelopment Agency, the Community Development Department, the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, and the Chief Legislative Analyst’s office. Additional staff assistance is provided by the U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers. Program assistance falls under six primary categories: On-Call Technical Assistance; Exploratory Site Assessments; Major Economic Development Sites; Special Purpose Capacity-Building Sites; Brownfields Demonstration Sites and Showcase Community Matching Fund Sites; and Showcase Community Matching Fund Sites. 

The purpose of the On-Call Technical Assistance category is to determine preliminary site conditions and issues, current regulatory standing, and possible approaches for addressing brownfields issues on specific sites. This program offers staff expertise, legal and engineering technical assistance, and outside expert consultant resources to assist Council, Mayor’s Office and City departments and agencies. Services are provided by CRA, EAD, MOED, BOE, City Attorney, other City departments and Federal partners (EPA and HUD) on a cost reimbursable basis where necessary. Category I dollar amounts are not directly assigned to sites but are available on an as-needed basis.

Contacts
For more information on the City's Brownfields Program please contact: 
Nuna Tersibashian of EnvironmentLA at (213) 978-0872, or
Dan Weissman of the Community Redevelopment Agency at 213-977-2687