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                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C.  20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
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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