Status Report: Initiatives to Develop Web Sites Including Information aboutBrownfields Properties

摘要

In March 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of SolidWaste and Emergency Response (OSWER) undertook a study to assess the feasibility of establishing a national brownfields site exchange web site (exchange). Such a web site might enhance the exchange of information nationally between owners of brownfields properties and potential purchasers thereof. Owners or purchasers of brownfields properties could include local, state, and federal agencies; tribal governments; local businesses; national corporations; developer realtors; and investors. EPA believed the exchange could help companies that offer site characterization and remediation services, innovative approaches and technologies for cleaning up sites, and other services supporting the cleanup of brownfields properties. The study revealed a number of hurdles that make it difficult for EPA to proceed with the establishment of the exchange, and EPA has determined that other organizations may be better suited to proceed with that effort.