United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-00-021
April 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
<&EPA BrownfieldsSupplemental
Assistance
Greenfield, MA
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 the Town of Greenfield supplemental
assistance for its Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot. Greenfield is the seat of Franklin
County and a maj or regional employment center. The
town has experienced a significant decline in its
industrial base during the last 20 years, resulting in the
abandonment of many older industrial/commercial
buildings in the town's center. The town also
experienced a 37 percent loss in manufacturing jobs
between 1980 and 1990 and estimates that 900
additional jobs were lost between 1990 and 1995.
The supplemental funds will be directed towards
additional assessment and cleanup design activities at
two sites: (1) the Greenfield Tap & Die (GTD)
facility, which is an abandoned 145,000-square-foot
machine tool manufacturing plant dating back to the
1870s; and 2) the Winer site, which is a former tool
manufacturing building currently used for storage.
The town intends to acquire the Winer site to restore
flood storage capacity to the Maple Book watershed.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Greenfield, Massachusetts
Date of Announcement:
March 2000
Amount: $120,000
Profile: The Pilot targets
two former tool
manufacturing plants for
additional assessment and
cleanup design activities.
Contacts:
Town of Greenfield
Office of Planning and
Community Development
(413)772-1548
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
Based on a clear mandate from the public, the town's
comprehensive redevelopment initiative (dubbed "The
Brownfields to Greenfields" program) seeks to
encourage and support redevelopment of existing
abandoned orunderusedcommercial/industrial sites.
The town has made this an economic development
priority based on input received in several collaborative
planning processes from 1995 through 1999. The
town intends to be an active facilitator in cleanup and
redevelopment activities and will expedite such
activities through a streamlined assessment phase.
The GTD and Winer properties are both targeted
underthe town's initiative. For both of these sites, the
Pilot will finalize assessment and design activities to
enable commencement of cleanup activities.
To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:
• Conduct further assessment investigations at the
GTD site;
• Conduct a bioremediation study of cleanup
alternatives at the GTD site; and
• Develop a risk characterization report for the swarf
area of the GTD site.
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 Greenfield, Massachusetts
April 2000 EPA 500-F-00-021
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