United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA500-F-97-126
April 1997
Regional Brownfields
Assessment Pilot
Englewood, CO
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 Region 8 has selected the City of Englewood as
a Regional Brownfields Pilot. Early this century,
Englewood was home to many of the Denver area's
heavy manufacturing industries. Several of the older
facilities have become functionally obsolete, and
residents near these sites suffer from below average
incomes and population growth. In many cases, the
potential for environmental liability has kept
prospective businesses from redeveloping these
obsolete properties.
The pilot will target two sites that are considered to be
essential toward achieving the City's long-range
planning goals. General Iron Works is a 280,000
square-foot former iron foundry on an 18-acre parcel.
Almost one-fifth of the residents living near the Iron
Works site live below the poverty level. Unemploy-
ment and poverty rates in nearby neighborhoods are
much higher than the City average.
OBJECTIVES
Englewood's goal is to establish a brownfields site
assessment revolving loan fund that offers low-inter-
est loans as incentives for private-sector property
owners to voluntarily assess their properties. The
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Date of Award:
April 1997
Amount: $200,000
Site Profile: The pilot will
target two former industrial
sites with known
contamination, ranging in
size from 27,000 square
feet to 18 acres.
Englewood, Colorado
Contacts:
Mark Graham
City of Englewood
Office of Neighborhood
Business Development
(303) 762-2353
David Ostrander
U.S. EPA-Region 8
(303)312-6725
ostrander.david@
epamail.epa.gov
Visit the EPA Brownfields Website at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields
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City's objectives forthe pilot are to encourage assess-
ment, remediation planning, and reuse of known
brownfields; evaluate potentially contaminated sites;
eliminate negative impacts on health and the environ-
ment; and ensure environmental and economic ben-
efits for disadvantaged communities.
ACTIVITIES
Activities planned as part of this pilot include:
• Creating a Brownfields Task Force and establishing
its administrative guidelines;
• Establishing award criteria for a Brownfields Site
Assessment Revolving Loan Fund;
• Continuing outreach efforts to community
organizations and other stakeholders;
• Identifying sources of remediation funds and
potential developers forthe two target sites;
• Dispersing revolving loan funds for environmental
assessments at both target sites; and
• Evaluating commercial and industrial facilities for
environmental risk potential.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been
negotiated; therefore, activities described in this fact
sheet are subject to change.
Regional Brownfields Assessment Pilot Englewood, Colorado
April 1997 EPA 500-F-97-126
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