Region 6 Targeted Brownfields Assessment

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What is a Targeted Brownfields Assessment?

A Target Brownfields Assessment (TBA) is a free service the EPA Region 6 Brownfields Team provides to communities to support their eligible Brownfields projects. Region 6 consists of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. TBA services include:

  • Brownfields inventories,
  • area-wide planning,
  • site environmental assessments and investigations, and
  • site cleanup planning.

Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas have similar programs to provide environmental assessment services. The Region 6 TBA brochure provides more details.

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Who Can Request a TBA?

  • Public (local units of governments)
  • Quasi-public (community development organizations)
  • Tribal governments
  • Non-profit entities

Privately-owned sites can be submitted as candidate sites, if the redevelopment will result in significant benefits to the general public. Land owners (private or public) must voluntarily sign a site access consent agreement for TBA services to be provided.

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How to Request a TBA

You should first contact your local governmental agencies to determine whether a community-wide Brownfields assessment grant exists in the area. If a community-wide Brownfields assessment grant recipient does not exist in the area or the grant recipient can not or chooses not to provide the requested assessment service, the respective state should be contacted next. The State Brownfields Coordinators are listed below. If the state cannot or chooses not to provide the assessment service, the site can then be referred to EPA Region 6. 

To request TBA services from the EPA Region 6 Brownfields Team, simply complete the Region 6 Request for TBA form and the Region 6 TBA Consent for Access to Property Agreement form. Click the "Submit by Email" button located at the top of the request form to submit. The Consent form will need to be scanned and emailed, or mailed to Mary Kemp, at the following address:

Mary Kemp, Brownfields Program (6SF-VB)
U.S. EPA Region 6
1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200
Dallas, TX 75202

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State Brownfields Coordinators

Arkansas

Terry Sligh (terry@adeq.state.ar.us)
Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Exit
501-683-0822

Louisiana

Roger Gingles or Duane Wilson
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Exit
225-219-3192
brownfields@la.gov

New Mexico

Pam Homer (pamela.homer@state.nm.us)
New Mexico Environment Department Exit
505-827-2754

Oklahoma

Lloyd Kirk (lloyd.kirk@deq.ok.gov)
Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality Exit
405-702-5131

Patricia Billingsley (p.billingsley@occemail.com)
Oklahoma Corporation Commission Exit
405-522-2758

Texas

Christine Whitney (Christine.Whitney@tceq.texas.gov) (Hazardous Sites)
Texas Department of Environmental Quality Exit
512-239-0843

Aimee Beveridge (aimee.beveridge@rrc.state.tx.us) (Petroleum Sites)
Railroad Commission of Texas Exit
512-463-7995

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