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United States
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Solid Waste
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Response (5105)
EPA 500-F-01-352
August 2001
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
State of Colorado Coalition
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving
Loan Fund Pilot Project
State of Colorado Coalition
Outreach and Special Projects Staff
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. EPA is funding assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded
up to $250,000 over two years) to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models; 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 programs (each funded up to $1 million over five years) to capitalize loan funds
to make loans 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
The City of Englewood is part of the Colorado
Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (CBRLF) Coali-
tion, which received its initial Brownfields Cleanup
Revolving Loan Fund (BCRLF) grant in 1999. The
coalition comprises the cities of Englewood, Lake-
wood, Loveland, Denver, Commerce City and
Westminster (joining in 2001) and two state agencies,
the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA)
and the Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment (CDPHE). Englewood is part of the
state Arapaho County Enterprise Zone.
Englewood is undergoing a major redevelopment
initiative to convert environmentally impacted sites
into economically viable properties. The city is an
inner-ring suburb in the Denvermetropolitan area. In
its history, Englewood was home to many heavy
manufacturing industries.
The Centennial Park expansion project involves the
redevelopment of a former landfill into an all-star
baseball field, which incorporates major park en-
hancements benefitting the South Platte River Trail.
This project is significant to the communities of
Englewood, Sheridan, and Littleton as it provides
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Date of Award: August 2001
Amount: $705,041
Profile: The loan to Englewood,
CO is for the Centennial Park
expansion project.
Sfafe of Colorado Coalition
Contacts:
Colorado Department of Public Region 8 BCRLF Coordinator
Health and Environment (303)312-6982
(303)692-3398
City of Englewood
(303)762-2599
Visit the EPA Region 8 Brownfields website at:
www.epa.gov/region08/land waste/bfhome/bfhome.html
Forfurtherinformation, including specificPilot contacts, additional
Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and publications
and links, visit the EPA Brownfields website at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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regional recreational amenities to residents of all
three cities. The demographics of the surrounding
area indicate that the BCRLF loan proceeds will
benefit economically disadvantaged families.
In September 1997, EPA awarded a $200,000
Brownfields Assessment Pilot grant to the City of
Englewood. In April 2000, the city was chosen to
receive $150,000 in Supplemental Assistance to sup-
port Assessment Pilot work along the Santa Fe/Platte
River Corridor. Much of the supplemental funding is
being used for land use planning and community
involvement in transportation, economic, and environ-
mental work along the corridor, which includes Cen-
tennial Park. Within a quarter-mile radius of Centen-
nial Park the unemployment rate is 6.4 percent.
STRUCTURE OF BCRLF PROGRAM
The CBRLF Coalition is a six-city, statewide BCRLF
coalition. The CDPHE functions as both the lead
agency and the site manager. The CHFA acts as the
fund manager.
The coalition's objective is to support local economic
and community development efforts through the
cleanup, redevelopment, and reuse of contaminated
sites. As with the original purpose of the coalition,
Colorado and its coalition members will use the
BCRLF to help fill the financing gap resulting from the
absence of public brownfields cleanup funding
resources in the state.
BCRLF BORROWER
The City of Englewood is borrowing $705,041 from
the CBRLF Coalition. The interest rate on the loan is
2 percent per annum over a loan term of 10 years.
BCRLF CLEANUP SITE
The Centennial Park expansion project involves the
redevelopment of a 9.4-acre former landfill into an all-
star baseball field. The site was mined for gravel
from 1956 to 1970 and land filled with solid waste
materials from about 1963 into the 1970s. Site
investigations identified elevated concentrations of
heavy metals, PCBs, and dioxin in the soil with the
potential for their subsequent leaching into the
groundwater. Groundwater currently meets state
standards at the property line. The site abuts the
South Platte River and Centennial Lake. Groundwater
flow direction parallels the South Platte. Detections
of methane have been below applicable standards.
The site cleanup involves venting methane gas and
putting a clay cap on the former landfill site.
PROPOSED SITE REUSE PLAN
The site reuse plan includes construction of three
lighted ball fields, restrooms, trail connections, and
kayak access to the South Platte River. One field will
be a baseball diamond sponsored by a Colorado
Rockies team member as part of the team's Youth
Field of Dreams program.
This project involves a number of funding partners,
including an EPA BCRLF grant, Colorado lottery
funding, an All Souls grant, and a grant from Brent
Mayne/McCormick Foundation (Colorado Rockies
Baseball Team). The total project cost for the
redevelopment of the former landfill is $2,382,522.
Englewood has committed public improvement
funding in excess of $1 million to develop the ball
fields and enable the park expansion along the South
Platte River corridor. The Colorado BCRLF grant
allows Englewood to move forward with the
development of the ball fields in 2001. Without
BCRLF funding, the city couldhave lostthe designation
of the ball fields and funding from the Colorado
Rockies.
BCRLF LEVERAGING
BCRLF funds will be used in conjunction with tax
incentives in the state's Enterprise Zones, state
Brownfields income tax incentives, and numerous
other financial incentives offered at the local
government level. CHFA's commercial loan program
will also be of assistance in financing the non-cleanup-
related activities associated with the redevelopment
of these brownfields.
CONTACTS
Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment
(303)692-3398
City of Englewood
(303)762-2599
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilot
August 2001
State of Colorado Coalition
EPA 500-F-01-352
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EPA Region 8 Project Officer
(303)312-6982
EPA-OSWER Outreach and Special Projects Staff
(202)260-4039
For additional information, contact the RCRA/
SuperfundHotline at: (800) 424-9346 orvisitthe EPA
Brownfields website at: http://www.epa.gov/
brownfields
Use ofBCRLF Pilot funds must be in accordance -with CERCLA,
and all CERCLA restrictions on use of funding also apply to
BCRLF funds.
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilot State of Colorado Coalition
August2001 EPA 500-F-01-352
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