United States
                        Environmental
                        Protection Agency
                        Washington, D.C. 20460
 Solid Waste
 and Emergency
 Response (5105)
 EPA 500-F-01-318
 April 2001
 www.epa.gov/brownfields/
  &EPA
                       Supplemental
                       Assistance
         Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission, VT
 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 work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, and safely clean up
brownfields to promote their sustainable reuse.  Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and
commercial facilities  where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental
contamination. EPA is funding: 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 brownfields to facilitate cleanup
of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental field; and, 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 Southern Windsor County
Regional Planning Commission (SWCRPC) to
receive supplemental assistance for its Brownfields
AssessmentDemonstration Pilot. Southern Windsor
County includes ten towns in southeastern Vermont
with a total population of 24,524. The region borders
the Connecticut River on the east, and includes most
of the Black River watershed. For much of the
nineteenth  and twentieth  centuries, the region
dominated the precision machine tool manufacturing
industry, earning itthe nickname "Precision Valley."
After World War II, the machine tool industry began
to decline. Between 1980 and 1990, the number of
people employed in manufacturing dropped 40
percent and every town in the region experienced a
decrease in per capita  income.  These  old
manufacturing towns have been left with high
unemploymentrates, empty buildings, andsuspected
environmental contamination from a century of
industrial activity.

The original Pilot has conducted,  or will soon
complete, four Phase I assessments, five Phase II
assessments, and one Phase III assessment. In
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Date of Announcement:
April 2001

Amount: $150,000

Profile: The Pilot targets sites in
ten small towns in the Precision
Valley part of the Black River
watershed.
Southern Windsor County Regional
Planning Commission, Vermont
Contacts:
Southern Windsor        Regional Brownfields Team
County Regional         U.S. EPA - Region 1
Planning Commission      (617)918-1424
(802)674-9201

     Visit the E PA Region 1 Brownfields web site at:
      http://www.epa.gov/region01/brownfields/

   Forfurtherinformation,includingspecific 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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addition, the SWCRPC prepared an initial inventory
of brownfields in the region, established an ongoing
community involvement program, created a steering
committee made up of representatives from member
towns,  and  coordinated with  the Vermont
Department of Environmental Conservation on site
assessment activities.

OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

Supplemental assistance will be used to continue
assessments on priority sites in the region, with the
goal of developing remediation plans for high-priority
sites. Supplemental assistance will be used to conduct
three Phase I environmental site assessments, two
Phase II environmental site assessments, and three
Phase III environmental site assessments. Sites
targeted for Phase III assessments are the former
Goodyearfacility in Windsor, the Precision Valley
Development Corporation site in Springfield, and
the Jewell Brook Mill in Ludlow. Supplemental
assistance also will be used for public education and
outreach, continued development of the brownfields
inventory, and the ongoing development of a strategy
for reuse of brownfields properties in the region.

Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Conducting education and outreach to residents
  and other stakeholders in the ten small towns in the
  region;

• Updating the inventory of brownfields in the region;
  and

• Conducting Phase lenvironmental site assessments
  at three sites, Phase II assessments at two sites,
  and Phase III assessments at three sites.

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                        Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission, Vermont
 April 2001                                                                         EPA500-F-01-318

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