&EPA
                   United States
                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C. 20460
                           Solid Waste
                           and Emergency
                           Response (5101)
      EPA 500-F-98-173
      July 1998
                                Assessment
Demonstration  Pilot
                                        Stamford,  CT
  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.  Since 1995, EPA has funded more than 200 Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilots, at up to $200,000 each, to support creative two-year explorations and  demonstrations of
brownfields solutions. 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 has selected the City of Stamford for  a
Brownfields Pilot. The Pilot designation follows as
part  of EPA's commitment to Stamford  as  a
Brownfields Showcase  Community.   Stamford
(population 110,000) focuses its brownfields activities
on the  Stamford Harbor Redevelopment Project,
seeking to restore the harbor areato amaj or economic
and recreational resource. Restoration of the harbor
will also provide a much-needed economic boost to
Stamford's two lowest-income neighborhoods,
Waterside and South End, which are located within a
State Enterprise Zone.  Waterside's population is
71 % minority, with 25% of families living below the
poverty level, while South End's residents are 80%
minority with a 16% poverty rate.

The brownfields prevalent throughout these two low-
income neighborhoods contribute to the area's blight
and create an environment that fosters crime.  The
8,300 residents ofthese two neighborhoods are living
in former factory workers' housing, which was built
prior to zoning regulations and is interspersed with
factories, maximizing the potential for exposure to
contaminants. Only 20 of the 250 acres of industrial
land  in the harbor area has been  converted and
redeveloped,  leaving 230  acres  of  underused
brownfields.
                             PILOT SNAPSHOT
                             Stamford, Connecticut
  Date of Announcement:
  July 1998

  Amount: $200,000

  Profile: The Pilot targets
  the harbor area, which
  includes Stamford's two
  lowest-income
  neighborhoods, South End
  and Waterside. The area
  has been designated as a
  State Enterprise Zone.
                           Contacts:
                           Office of Operations
                           City of Stamford
                           (203)977-4141
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 1
(617)573-9681
                                 Visit the EPA Region 1 Brownfields web site at:
                                 http://www.epa.gov/region01/remed/bmfld/

                               Forfurtherinformation, 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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OBJECTIVES

Stamford plans to include the Pilot as an integral part
of the City's redevelopment plan for the harbor area.
The Pilot will stimulate redevelopment of the harbor
and the adjoining neighborhoods by conducting Phase
I and II environmental assessments and integrating
Stamford' s Pilot and Showcase Community activities.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Leveraging Stamford's designation as a Brownfields
 Showcase  Community to form new Federal
 partnerships, and leverage additional public funding
 to stimulate private demand;

• Conducting Phase I assessments on eightbrownfields
 properties;

• Conducting Phase II assessments on sixbrownfields
 properties; and

• Partnering with community residents, particularly in
 Waterside and South End, to assure that existing
 low-income residents in the neighborhoods share in
 the benefits of brownfields redevelopment.

The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been
negotiated; therefore, activities described in this fact sheet
are subject to change.
  Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilos                                           Stamford, Connecticut
  July 1998                                                                        EPA500-F-98-173

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