United States
                     Environmental Protection
                     Agency
Office of Solid Waste
And Emergency Response
(5401G)
EPA 510-F-00-008
October 2000
www.epa.gov
Underground Storage


Tanks And Brownfields  Sites
                                                             NEWJERSEY/Trenton
EPA's USTfields Initiative will fund pilots in Brownfields communities to assess and clean up petroleum contamination from
federally-regulated underground storage tanks (USTs) at idle or abandoned commercial properties. Petroleum contamination is
generally excluded from coverage under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA) and is not, therefore, covered under EPA's Brownfields Program. In its USTfields Pilot Program, EPA's Office of
Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) has selected 10 state/local pilots in which the state will partner with a local area to assess
and/or clean up two or more petroleum-impacted underground storage tank sites. Each pilot state will receive up to $100,000 of
LUST Trust funds to be used to assess and clean up the local area sites. This will help to ready them for future reuse.
BACKGROUND

EPA selected the State of New Jersey as an
USTfields Pilot. The State of New Jersey will work
with the City of Trenton as its partnering local area.
The city is a Brownfields Assessment and
Showcase Community and is receiving over
$2 million in federal resources to undertake a
citywide cleanup of its brownfields sites. As part of
the city's cleanup plans, the city identified several
sites with underground storage tanks and actual or
potential petroleum contamination. Petroleum
contamination, however,  generally cannot be
cleaned up with funds from the Brownfields
program.  This has created an obstacle in Trenton's
plans to clean up and redevelop its brownfields
sites.


OBJECTIVES

Using pilot funds, the state will work with the local
government to assess sites and clean up petroleum
contamination, including MTBE contamination.
Some of the future uses of cleaned up sites being
considered include a new firehouse and a greenway
along the Assunpink Creek. Once the petroleum-
impacted sites are addressed, the City of Trenton
should be able to continue its Brownfields cleanup
and foster an accelerated process of returning
vacant brownfields sites into community assets.
                                Region 2
                 Trenton,
                 New Jersey
   Applicant Name: New Jersey

   Local Partner: City of Trenton

   Date of Selection: October 2000

   Profile: The State of New Jersey will work with
   the City of Trenton to clean up petroleum-
   contaminated sites currently presenting an
   obstacle to cleanup efforts.
                                                 Contacts:

                                                 EPA Region 2

                                                 Ben Singh
                                                 (212) 637-4237
                   New Jersey Department of
                   Environmental Protection

                   Terri Smith
                   (609) 292-1250
                                                 For further information, go to www.epa.gov/oust/
                                 EPA USTfields INITIATIVE

   EPA and the state have not yet negotiated the Cooperative Agreement to fund this pilot; therefore, activities are subject to change.

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