Identifying land and buildings to help businesses grow will be a priority of the Port of The Dalles during 2021. Port Executive Director Andrea Klaas says the agency has a University of Oregon RARE project planner working on redevelopment of Brownsfields properties in The Dalles. Klaas says those are properties that probably had a historical use that caused environmental contamination. Klaas notes The Dalles has a $600,000 federal grant to help property owners identify the level of contamination and help them put together a plan to clean up those sites.