United States
                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C. 20460
 Solid Waste
 and Emergency
 Response (5101)
 EPA 500-F-00-022
 April 2000
 www.epa.gov/brownfields/
  <&EPA  BrownfieldsSupplemental
                   Assistance
                                                                  Hartford,  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 the City of Hartford supplemental
assistance for  its  Brownfields Assessment
DemonstrationPilot. Duringthe 1980s and 1990s, the
State of Connecticut experienced a major shift in
military and industrial employment. The industrial
exodus created a number of serious economic and
social problems for Hartford. The number of j obs fell
by 22 percent between 1989 and 1995.  In 1995, 62
percent of the city' s population of!25,100 was living
below federal low- to moderate-income guidelines.
Additionally, industrial migration resulted in a large
number of abandoned sites and buildings with potential
environmental hazards, e.g., ash from a time when
ash was used as fill for properties and toxic substances
from old plating  and manufacturing processes.
Presently, one-third of all land zoned for commercial
or industrial uses in Hartford can be classified as
brownfields.

In 1997, the City of Hartford became part of EPA's
Brownfield Initative. With funds received from EPA
and leveraged from other entities, the city was able to
identify over 30 properties  of community concern,
contract for  16  Phase I Environmental Site
Assessments (ESAs) and complete 12 of these ES A's,
PILOT  SNAPSHOT
  Hartford, Connecticut
  Date of Announcement:
  March 2000

  Amount: $150,000

  Profile: The Pilot will target
  four sites for assessment
  and/or development of
  cleanup plans.
Contacts:
Office of Property Acquisition
and Disposition
City of Hartford
(860)543-8637
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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and conduct 9 Phase II assessments. The city was
also able to add value to its real estate, and improve
its policies regarding the environmental conditions of
abandoned and foreclosed properties.

OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

The  City  of Hartford  will use the supplemental
assistance to help reverse the economic decline of the
past by preparing  four sites for redevelopment and
ultimately transferring these properties back to the
city tax roles. Redevelopment of these properties will
help cut down on development in rural areas and,
therefore, help to preserve the identity and historic
quality of Connecticut's small towns and villages.

To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:

• Conduct Phase n ESA's at three sites on the city's
 inventory-Locust Street, 393 Homestead Avenue,
 and 17-35 Bartholomew Avenue;

• Prepare cleanup  plans for four sites on the city's
 inventory-Locust Street, 393 Homestead Avenue,
 17-35 Bartholomew Avenue, and Sand Park; and

• Continue to work with the State of Connecticut
 Department of Environmental Protection (DEP),
 Department of Health, the U.S. Department of
 Agriculture (USDA),  the Department of Housing
 and Urban Development (HUD), Trinity College,
 KnoxParkFoundation, Co-Opportunity, Concerned
 Citizens  to Save the  Sheldon Charter Oak
 Neighborhood, SAND, Parkville  Business
 Association, and the NRZs through Hartford 2000.

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                                                   Hartford, Connecticut
 April 2000                                                                       EPA 500-F:-00-022

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