United States
                       Environmental
                       Protection Agency
                       Washington, D.C. 20460
  Solid Waste
  and Emergency
  Response (5101)
EPA500-F-97-110
April 1997

                       National   Brownfields
                       Assessment  Pilot
                                                        Greenfield, MA
  Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5101)
                 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. Between 1995 and 1996, EPA funded 76 National and Regional Brownfields
Assessment Pilots, at up to $200,000 each, to support creative two-year explorations and demonstrations of brownfields
solutions. EPAis funding morethan 27 Pilots in 1997. The Pilots 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.
OVERVIEW

EPA has selected the Town of Greenfield as a
Brownfields Pilot. Greenfield is the seat of Franklin
County and a major regional employment center.
The town has experienced a significant decline in its
industrial base over the last 20 years as a result of the
abandonment of many older industrial/commercial
buildings in the town's center. The town also has
experienced a 37 percent loss in manufacturing jobs
between 1980 and 1990, and estimates that 900
additional jobs were lost between  1990 and 1995.
Greenfield and other Franklin County towns have
been designated by  the Commonwealth  as an
Economic Target Area.   This designation enables
Greenfield to receive priority for state capital funding
and to offer tax incentives to prospective property
developers.

The pilot site consists of an abandoned, 145,000
square-foot, machine tool manufacturing plant located
along the Green River and dating back to the 1870s.
Since the Greenfield Tap and Dye plant closed in
1993, the site has been vandalized, and open containers
of hazardous materials have been identified on the
property. Redevelopment of this site could provide
needed space for expansion by local manufacturers,
and is highly desirable  with respect to existing
transportation and infrastructure support. The pilot
  PILOT SNAPSHOT
Greenfield, Massachusetts
                     Date of Award:
                     April 1997

                     Amount: $125,000
                     Site Profile: The pilot will
                     focus on an abandoned
                     145,000 square-foot
                     manufacturing plant along
                     the Green River in a rural
                     area of Greenfield.
Contacts:

Teri Anderson
Office of Planning and
Community Development
(413)772-1548
 John Podgurski
 U.S. EPA Region 1
 (617)573-9681
 podgurski.john@
 epamail.epa.gov
        Visit the EPA Brownfields Website at:
        http://www.epa.gov/brownfields

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project will develop a partnership between the town,
Commonwealth environmental agencies, University
of Massachusetts students, and private consultants to
prepare an environmental assessment and remediation
plan for this site.

OBJECTIVES

Greenfield's goals are to evaluate the environmental
concerns at the pilot site, explore an innovative
cooperative model  for site  assessment, create
redevelopment opportunities, and  plan for the
restoration of the site  as an  asset to a  blighted
neighborhood.  In particular, the pilot will focus on
model approaches to reducing site assessment costs,
and these models will be evaluated to determine their
applicability for use at other sites in the area. Pilot
goals  also include the determination of future land
use options and cleanup levels for the pilot site and
are directed toward job training and workforce
development for students.

ACTIVITIES

Activities planned as part of this pilot include:

• Conducting  additional  site  assessments,
 characterizing hazardous wastes, and preparing a
 remediation work plan for the Greenfields Tap and
 Dye facility;

• Determining future land-use options forthe facility;

• Identifying funding sources  and private  sector
 developers to assist in cleanup and redevelopment;
 and

• Expanding a cooperative partnership model between
 the  local government, the Commonwealth,  and
 University of Massachusetts.

The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been
negotiated; therefore, activities described in this fact
sheet are subject to change.
 National Brownfields Assessment Pilot                                            Greenfield, Massachusetts
 April 1997                                                                        EPA500-F-97-110

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