&EPA
                   United States
                   Environmental
                   Protection Agency
                   Washington, D.C. 20460
                           Solid Waste
                           and Emergency
                           Response (5101)
      EPA 500-F-98-176
      July 1998
                                 Assessment
Demonstration  Pilot
                                         Paterson, NJ
  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 Paterson for  a
Brownfields Pilot. Paterson (population 148,400) is
located in northeast New Jersey, approximately 10
miles from the Hudson River and New York City. As
the first planned industrial city in the nation, some of
the country's oldest brownfields are located here.
Hazardous substances generated from many years of
industrial activities have contaminated  several
properties and the City's aquifers.  The State has
identified over 70 contaminated sites in Paterson.
The brownfields have contributed to blight  and
economic distress.

With the assistance of the New Jersey Hazardous
Discharge Site Remediation Fund and the New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection, the City
has been able to take the first steps toward identifying
and assessing its contaminated properties.  Some
progress has been made, including the redevelopment
of the 7-acre Allied Textile Printers site into a 64-unit
housing complex.

OBJECTIVES

Paterson  aims to  develop  a community-based
brownfields response model in the form of aguidance
document to help steer the City in the planning and
                             PILOT SNAPSHOT
                            Paterson, New Jersey
    Date of Announcement:
    July 1998

    Amount: $200,000

    Profile: The Pilot will
    assess and develop
    cleanup and
    redevelopment plans for
    six large, abandoned
    brownfields located
    across the City.
                           Contacts:

                           City of Paterson
                           (973)881-3365
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 Browrrfields web site at:
                                   http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/

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redevelopment of its brownfields.  This will include
characterizing milestones that impact brownfields
such as environmental issues and land use.  The Pilot
will aid this effort through the creation of outreach
activities that will include residents in cleanup and
reuse decision making; assessment of the  six target
sites; and cleanup and redevelopment planning. The
City will coordinate the Pilot public outreach program
with its existing Consolidated Plan outreachprocess.

The  Pilot will evaluate the guidance document by
applying the model to six brownfields in the City:
Paterson Paperboard, Kaysam, Leader Dye, 69-83
Straight  Street,  95 Cliff Street, and 62 Garfield
Avenue sites.  These sites were selected as target
sites because they are in the City's Hazardous Site
Remediation program, are over one acre in size, have
not been productive for at least one year, and have not
attracted interest from developers.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Developing a contaminated sites guidance document,
 which will incorporate key  milestones  affecting
 brownfields development;

• Developing bilingual outreach activities to include
 public  input on  cleanup and  future  land-use
 decisions; and

• Conducting  site  assessments  at six  targeted
 brownfields.

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 Pilot                                              Paterson, New Jersey
July 1998                                                                            EPA500-F-98-176

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