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Directory of Technical Assistance for Land Revitalization

2.1  U.S. EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER)

EPA OSWER provides policy, guidance, and direction for the land disposal of hazardous wastes, underground storage tanks (UST), solid waste management, encouragement of innovative technologies, source reduction of wastes, and management of the Superfund Program. OSWER's priorities include the following:

  • Land revitalization, and making property reuse an important part of all cleanup activities
  • Enhancing counter-terrorism
  • Better integrating information
  • Reducing waste and recovering energy
  • Campaigning against waste
  • Workforce development and succession planning

    OSWER's goal for revitalization is to broadly promote the lessons learned by the Brownfields program and how revitalization can complement traditional cleanup programs and lead to faster cleanups. Several offices within OSWER are helping EPA achieve this goal.

    EPA's goal is for OSWER and its federal, state, tribal, and local partners is to reduce or control the risk to human health and the environment at more than 374,000 contaminated Superfund, RCRA, UST, Brownfields and oil sites by 2005. The goal is also to have the planning and preparedness capabilities to respond successfully to all known emergencies and to reduce the risk to human health and the environment.

    The remainder of this section provides profiles for the following OSWER-related organizations:

    2.1.1 Brownfields Technology Support Center
    2.1.2 Engineering, Groundwater, and Federal Facilities Forums
    2.1.3 Superfund Redevelopment Initiative
    2.1.4 Office of Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment
    2.1.5 Land Revitalization Initiative
    2.1.6 RCRA Brownfields Prevention Initiative
    2.1.7 USTfields
    2.1.8 Environmental Response Team
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