United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-00-098
May 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
\>EPA Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot
Glen Falls, NY
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, 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 $200,000 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 $500,000 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
EPA has selected the City of Glen Falls for a
Brownfields Pilot. Glen Falls is a small city (15,023
residents and 3.9 square miles) located in upstate
New York along the Hudson River. Its proximity to
the forest-rich Adirondacks makes it a gateway to the
Adirondack region. The city's location has also made
it a major supplier of paper and the site of
manufacturing industries such as cementprocessing,
textiles, metal fabrication, lumber, pulp, and paper
mills for more than a century. However, over the past
40 years, many of these manufacturing properties
have been abandoned and vacated as international
competition, increased automation, and large-scale
price reductions resulted in factory closings and lost
j obs. The Warren Street Corridor and the surrounding
neighborhood was particularly hard hit by these
losses—the area now has a poverty rate of 20.4
percent. In addition, the numerous brownfields in the
areahave hadablighting influence on the neighborhood,
resulting in alack of investment and pride in properties
and a perception of economic hopelessness. To begin
reversing these conditions, Glen Falls identified the
Warren Street Corridor as a primary target for
economic revitalization.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Glen Falls, NY
Date of Announcement:
May 2000
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot plans to
conduct an area-wide
environmental assessment of
the Warren Street Corridor as
well as environmental
assessments at priority
brownfields sites in the corridor.
Contacts:
City of Glen Falls
(518)761-3864
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, brown fields news and events, and
publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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OBJECTIVES
The aim of the Glen Falls Pilot is to help the city spark
the economic revitalization of the Warren Street
Corridor by conducting environmental assessments
and cleanup planning on priority brownfields sites. To
help guide these activities the Pilot will convene a
Brownfields Team to oversee Pilot activities, conduct
community outreach, and obtain community input to
identify priority sites. The city anticipatesthatcleaning
up and redeveloping sites in the Corridor will create
new jobs, expand the tax base, and jumpstart the
area's economy.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Completing an area-wide assessment ofbrownfields
in the Warren Street Corridor;
• Implementing a community involvement plan to
identify properties for site investigations;
• Conducting environmental investigations onpriority
brownfields;
• Developing cleanup and end-use plans for
investigated, priority brownfields; and
• Establishing a Brownfields Team to coordinate
Pilot activities, including technical assistance and
community outreach activities relating to the
targeted area.
The cooperative agreementforthis Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subjectto change.
Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot Glen Falls, NY
May2000 EPA 500-F-00-098
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