United States
                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C.  20460
 Solid Waste
 and Emergency
 Response (5101)
 EPA 500-F-00-037
 April 2000
 www.epa.gov/brownfields/
  <&EPA   Brownfields Supplemental
                   Assistance
                                                  Naugatuck  Valley, 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 awarded Naugatuck Valley supplemental
assistance for its  Brownfields  Assessment
Demonstration Pilot.  The Naugatuck River Valley
has a long history of industrial development and
contains at least 168 contaminated sites. In 1992,
there was a 9.9 percent unemployment rate in the
Central Valley. The depressed economy typifies the
troubled economy of the state.  Current projections
for j ob growth in Connecticut through the year 2010
are the lowest in the nation.

The supplemental Pilot will continue the coordinated
efforts of municipalities within the 45-mile-long valley.
The Valley Regional Planning Agency (VRPA)
established the Naugatuck Valley Brownfields Pilot
(NVBP) to act as the Pilot's primary brownfields
broker  and redevelopment facilitator.  Since its
origination, the Pilot has added two municipalities
within the valley for brownfields assessments; the
VRPAnow coordinates brownfields proj ects on behalf
of 10 municipalities within the valley.  Brownfields
within each municipality are selected for assessment
by an advisory committee that includes members
from participating towns.
PILOT  SNAPSHOT
    Naugatuck Valley,
      Connecticut
 Date of Announcement:
 March 2000

 Amount: $150,000

 Profile: The Pilot targets
 brownfields  from  10
 municipalities within the 45-
 mile-long Naugatuck Valley.
Contacts:
Valley Regional
Planning Agency
Naugatuck Valley
(203)735-8688
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 1
(617)918-1209
     Visit the EPA Region 1 Brownfields web site at:
      http://www.epa.gov/region01/remed/brnfld/

   For further 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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OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

The intent of the VRPA's brownfields effort is to
assess, clean up, and reuse contaminated land and
water in the valley.   Utilizing the administrative
capacity of the regional organization and the individual
municipalities facilitated through the original Pilot
funding, the supplemental funding will be usedprimarily
for environmental assessments.  The Pilot will use
established selection criteria to identify priority sites
for redevelopment and then facilitate cleanup and
redevelopment by assessing these sites and creating
final development strategies.

To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:

• Identify brownfields within each of the participating
 municipalities; and

• Conduct Phase n environmental assessments at the
 targeted properties.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
 Brownfields Supplemental Assistance                                              Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut
 April 2000                                                                            EPA 500-F-00-037

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