United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105)
EPA 500-F-01-299
April 2001
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
<&EPA Brownfields Supplemental
Assistance
Utlca, NY
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 worktogether in atimelymannerto prevent, assess, and safely clean up brownfieldsto promote
their sustainable reuse. Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion
or redevelopment is complicated by real orperceivedenvironmentalcontamination.EPAisfunding: assessment demonstration
pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years, with additional funding provided for greenspace), to test
assessment models and facilitate coordinated assessment and cleanup efforts at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels;
and job training pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years), to provide training for residents of communities
affected by brownfieldsto facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and preparetraineesforfuture employment intheenvironmental
field; and, a cleanup revolving loan fund program (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years) to provide financial assistance
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 has selected the City of Utica to receive
supplemental assistance for its Brownfields
Assessment Demonstration Pilot. Utica is a
relatively small metropolitan area located along
the Mohawk River and Erie Canal. In the 1800s
and early 1900s, the majority of businesses were
paper and textile milling companies. In the mid-
19008, the area began to support high-tech
manufacturing and the textile mills began to shut
down. Like many industrial cities in the northeast,
Utica (population 61,368) has experienced a
significant decline in its tax and job base over the
past 50 years. Today, most textile mills are closed
or being used by different businesses, and most
high-tech industries have moved out of the state.
While many of the abandoned industrial sites in
Utica have known contamination, others are only
perceived to be contaminated. One area that has
many brownfields is the Broad Street Corridor, an
old industrial area where some redevelopmenthas
begun. The city has formed a partnership with the
Utica Municipal Housing Authority and Oneida
County to implement Utica's new Gateway Plan,
which merges the housing and economic
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Date of Award: April 2001
Amount: $150,000
Profile: The Pilot plans to
assessthreebrownfieldssites
inthe Gateway-Corridor area
of Utica to help spur their
cleanupand redevelopment
and revitalize the area.
Utica, New York
Contacts:
City of Utica, Urban and Economic
Development Agency
(315)792-0152
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 2
(212)637-4314
Visit the EPA Region 2 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/r02earth/superfnd/brownfld/bfmainpg.htm
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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development objectives. These objectives will be
achieved, in part, by reusing the area's brownfields.
Further, the city hopes to attract technology-based
industry with its comprehensive fiber optic network,
which surrounds the areas considered in the Gateway
Plan and the Broad Street Corridor Initiative.
OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES
The City of Uticaplans to use supplemental assistance
funds to spur cleanup and revitalization of the Broad
Street Corridor area as well as the area encompassed
in the Gateway Plan (Gateway-Corridor area) by
assessing three area brownfield sites. The city has
recently refocused its brownfields efforts from single-
site redevelopment to a broader community-based
redevelopment effort, which has resulted in the
identification and historical review of brownfields
within the Broad Street Corridor.
The Pilot plans to:
• Complete Phase I and Phase II environmental
assessments on three sites in the targeted area: the
Goldbas site, the Durr Packing site, and the Schuyler
Street property; and
• Identify cleanup levels and obj ectives and develop a
cleanup plan for each 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 Utica, New York
April 2001 EPA 500-F-01-299
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