United States
                       Environmental
                       Protection Agency
                       Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-97-024
May 1997
                       National  Brownfields
                      Assessment  Pilot
                                                              Newark, NJ
  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.
  BACKGROUND

  EPA selected the City of Newark for a Brownfields
  Pilot.  Industrial decline, disinvestment,  and
  suburbanization of northern New Jersey after World
  War II have left Newark (population 275,000,
  New Jersey's largest city) with more than 700
  acres of largely abandoned and under-used public
  and private property. These properties are known
  or suspected to be contaminated from industrial
  operations and manufacturing.   As a result,
  brownfields  hamper the City's ability to attract
  new investment and retain existing businesses.
  Newark's industrial past has left  a legacy of
  unhealthy  neighborhoods  with  degraded
  environments.  During the 1980s, the City lost
  60,000 residents, and 26 percent of the remaining
  residents are at or below the poverty level.  Newark
  has been designated  a Federal  Enterprise
  Community  and an Urban Enterprise Zone.

  OBJECTIVES

  The focus of the City's brownfields  efforts is to
  return abandoned sites to productive use, generate
  tax revenue, and increase space available for
  business expansion and new jobs. Newark intends
  to integrate  and use  New Jersey's innovative
  legislative and regulatory tools designed to
PILOT SNAPSHOT
                   Date of Award:
                   September 1996

                   Amount: $200,00

                   Site Profile: The Pilot
                   targets four diverse
                   industrial operation and
                   manufacturing sites.
 Newark, New Jersey
Contacts:

Joel Freiser
Newark Economic
Development Corporation
(201)643-2790
    Larry D'Andrea
    U.S. EPA-Region 2
    (212)637-4314
    dandrea.larry@
    epamail.epa.gov
      Visit the EPA Brownfields Website at:
      http://www.epa.gov/brownfields

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streamline brownfields cleanup and redevelopment
efforts.  In addition, the City wants to produce a
pipeline of clean, redeveloped sites while inventing a
model expedited process replicable in other cities.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

The Pilot is:

• Completing  a  comprehensive  geographic
 information system   (GlS)-based brownfields
 inventory;

• Assessing four diverse sites (140 Thomas Street,
 Albert Steel Drum/Prentiss Drug and Pierson Creek,
 Pitt/Consol Dupont, and White Chemical sites) and
 readying them for remediation and development
 and continuing outreach to the community through
 the Newark Brownfields Working Group;

• Encouraging  private investment by making
 information on the assessment and cleanup of each
 site available to potential investors;

• Linkingthe assessmentandredevelopmentplanning
 of demonstration sites to the revitalization of their
 surrounding neighborhoods; and

• Producing and updating a brownfields redevelop-
 ment plan and program.

LEVERAGING OTHER ACTIVITIES

Experience with the Newark Pilot has been a catalyst
for related activities including the following.

• Applying innovative site assessment technologies
 in cooperation with the  New Jersey Institute of
 Technology and Rutgers University.
 National Brownfields Assessment Pilot                                              Newark, New Jersey
 May 1997                                                                     EPA 500-F-97-024

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