United States
                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C. 20460
 Solid Waste
 and Emergency
 Response (5101)
  EPA 500-F-00-107
  May 2000
  www.epa.gov/brownfields/
  <&EPA   Brownfields  Assessment
                   Demonstration  Pilot
                                                          New London, CT
 Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5105)
                   Quick Reference Fact Sheet
EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower states,  communities, and other
stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and
sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or perceived contamination and
an active potential for redevelopment or reuse. EPA is funding: assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded
up to $200,000 over two years), to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models; job training
pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities affected
by brownfields to facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental
field; and, cleanup revolving loan fund programs (each funded up to $500,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds
to make loans for the environmental cleanup of brownfields. These pilot programs are intended to provide EPA, states,
tribes, municipalities, and communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods
to promote a  unified approach to site assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
BACKGROUND

EPA has selected the City of New London for a
Brownfields Pilot. New London was also selected
to receive  additional funding for assessments at
Brownfields properties to be used for greenspace
purposes. New London (population 28,540) has an
unemployment rate of 7.6 percent and more than
half of its  residents live below the poverty line.
Minorities make up nearly one-third of New
London's  residents.   The city  also has had a
declining population for 40 years.

Due to its location along the Thames  River, New
London has a rich maritime history. Fort Trumbull
was home to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center,
where  SONAR  and other advances  in military
surveillance were made, but the closing of Fort
Trumbull has created an economic and environmental
burden on the city. The large, closed site is suspected
to contain  contamination from years  of whaling,
shipbuilding, canning, and storage and distribution of
military supplies. The city itself is small, with atotal
land area of 5.79 square miles.  Within this area,
more than half of the land is tax_exempt, decreasing
city revenue.   With  no  large parcels left  for
development (the only undeveloped land are parcels
PILOT SNAPSHOT
  New London, CT
Date of Announcement:
May2000

Amount: $200,000
Greenspace: $50,000

Profile: The Pilot targets the
environmental and economic
redevelopment of four sitesand
the ecological restoration of one
site within the Ft. Trumbull area
of New London.
 Contacts:
 City of New London
 (860)447-5203
  Regional Brownfields Team
  U.S. EPA-Region 1
  (617)918-1424
     Visit the EPA Region 1 Brownfields web site at:
     http://www.epa.gov/region01/remed/brnfld/

   Forfurther information, including specific Pilot contacts,
 additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
 publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
         http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/

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of less than  one acre)  the city must turn to its
brownfields for revitalization and redevelopment. In
addition, New London is below the state's standard
on in-city parkland.

OBJECTIVES

The  New London Brownfields Pilot focuses on
promoting the redevelopment of five brownfields
sites in or adjacentto Ft. Trumbull. Four of these sites
are targeted for economic redevelopment, and one
has been designated for greenspace use. By taking
advantage of successful redevelopment efforts already
underway in the Ft. Trumbull area, the Pilot will carry
out  site  assessments and mobilize community
involvement groups to promote development of the
sites. The city has already assessed and cleaned up
two brownfields sites in the Fort Trumbull area, and
the Pilot will address the remaining five. The City of
New London is participating in the economic
revitalization of the entire southeastern Connecticut
area, by seeking to become a major transportation hub
and centerpiece to the region's redevelopment. In
addition, the Pilot will use greenspace funds to address
a fifth brownfields site and create the Bentley Creek
Wetland Restoration Area.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Performing  Phase I and Phase II site assessments;

• Empowering community-involvement groups;

• Generating site reuse plans; and

• Performing  site assessment and working with the
  community on the greenspace project site.

The cooperative agreement for thisPilothas notyet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
 Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot                                                New London, CT
 May 2000                                                                        EPA500-F-00-107

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