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Brownfields 1997 Assessment Pilot Fact Sheet
Hartford, CT
EPA Brownfields Initiative
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states,
communities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the
expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be
complicated by the presence or potential presence of a
hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. On
January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into
law the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields Law, EPA
provides financial assistance to eligible applicants
through four competitive grant programs: assessment
grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and
job training grants. Additionally, funding support is
provided to state and tribal response programs through a
separate mechanism.
Background
EPA has selected the City of Hartford as a Brownfields
Pilot. Of the more than 1,100 acres in the city that were
once in productive use, 30 percent have been abandoned
since 1986. More than 750 buildings, presenting
unknown environmental hazards, are vacant as the result
of industrial migration from the city. The industrial
exodus has presented serious economic and social
problems for the city. In 1995, 62 percent of the city's
population of 125,100 was identified as living below
federal low-to-moderate income guidelines. Between
1989 and 1995, the number of jobs fell by 22 percent.
The city believes that to reverse this decline it must be
able to offer inner city sites of comparable acreage and
accessibility as those offered by suburban locations for
redevelopment.
The pilot will target blighted and deteriorated sites in
three Hartford neighborhoods-Sheldon/Charter Oak,
Upper Albany, and Clay Arsenal. Unemployment rates
in these target areas range from 15 to 24 percent, and
minority population rates range from 80 to 99 percent.
Although each of these neighborhoods has attempted to
address economic problems through community-based
efforts, the perception of environmental contamination
has impeded redevelopment. The city believes that,
without site investigations, potential purchasers will
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 05/13/1997
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The pilot will target blighted and
deteriorated sites in three Hartford neighborhoods -
Sheldon/Charter Oaks, Upper Albany and Clay
Arsenal.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant
contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
news and events, and publications and links, visit the
EPA Brownfields Web site
(http ://www .epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA Region 1 Brownfields Team
(617)918-1424
EPA Region 1 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/regionl/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: City of Hartford,CT
(860) 543-8655
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Objectives
Hartford's goal is to attract manufacturing and
commercial industries to brownfields sites. Pilot
objectives are to select three brownfields sites for
redevelopment, conduct environmental assessments at
the three sites, develop site-specific redevelopment
strategies, and conduct community outreach.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this pilot include:
•	Prioritizing and evaluating brownfields sites to
determine their redevelopment potential, and
selecting three target sites;
•	Conducting preliminary environmental
assessments at the three target sites;
•	Developing site-specific redevelopment
strategies for these sites;
•	Developing a model for community residents
participating in brownfields redevelopment
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
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planning; and
• Educating the community about barriers to
redevelopment.
The information presented in this fact sheet comes from
the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the accuracy of
this information. The cooperative agreement for the
grant has not yet been negotiated. Therefore, activities
described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
Solid Waste
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Brownfields 1997 Supplemental Assessment
Pilot Fact Sheet
City of Hartford, CT
EPA Brownfields Initiative
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states,
communities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the
expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be
complicated by the presence or potential presence of a
hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. On
January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into
law the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields Law, EPA
provides financial assistance to eligible applicants
through four competitive grant programs: assessment
grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and
job training grants. Additionally, funding support is
provided to state and tribal response programs through a
separate mechanism.
Background
EPA awarded the City of Hartford supplemental
assistance for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration
Pilot. During the 1980s and 1990s, the State of
Connecticut experienced a major shift in military and
industrial employment. The industrial exodus created a
number of serious economic and social problems for
Hartford. The number of jobs fell by 22 percent between
1989 and 1995. In 1995, 62 percent of the city's
population of 125,100 was living below federal low- to
moderate-income guidelines. Additionally, industrial
migration resulted in a large number of abandoned sites
and buildings with potential environmental hazards, e.g.,
ash from a time when ash was used as fill for properties
and toxic substances from old plating and manufacturing
processes. Presently, one-third of all land zoned for
commercial or industrial uses in Hartford can be
classified as brownfields.
In 1997, the City of Hartford became part of EPA's
Brownfield Initative. With funds received from EPA and
leveraged from other entities, the city was able to identify
over 30 properties of community concern, contract for 16
Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) and
complete 12 of these ESA's, and conduct 9 Phase II
assessments. The city was also able to add value to its
real estate, and improve its policies regarding the
environmental conditions of abandoned and foreclosed
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 03/01/2000
Amount: $150,000
Profile: City of Hartford, CT. The Pilot will target
four sites for assessment and/or development of
cleanup plans.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant
contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
news and events, and publications and links, visit the
EPA Brownfields Web site
(http ://www .epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA Region 1 Brownfields Team
(617)918-1424
EPA Region 1 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/regionl/brownfields)
Grant Recipient: City of Hartford,CT
(860) 543-8637
Objectives
The City of Hartford will use the supplemental
assistance to help reverse the economic decline of the
past by preparing four sites for redevelopment and
ultimately transferring these properties back to the city
tax roles. Redevelopment of these properties will help
cut down on development in rural areas and, therefore,
help to preserve the identity and historic quality of
Connecticut's small towns and villages.
To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:
•	Conduct Phase II ESA's at three sites on the
city's inventory: Locust Street, 393 Homestead
Avenue, and 17-35 Bartholomew Avenue;
•	Prepare cleanup plans for four sites on the city's
inventory: Locust Street, 393 Homestead
Avenue, 17-35 Bartholomew Avenue, and Sand
Park; and
•	Continue to work with the State of Connecticut
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP),
Department of Health, the U.S. Department of
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
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properties	Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD), Trinity College,
Knox Park Foundation, Co-Opportunity,
Concerned Citizens to Save the Sheldon Charter
Oak Neighborhood, SAND, Parkville Business
Association, and the NRZs through Hartford
2000.
The information presented in this fact sheet comes from
the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the accuracy of
this information. The cooperative agreement for the
grant has not yet been negotiated. Therefore, activities
described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
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