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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 Utica for a Brownfields
Pilot. Utica is a relatively small metropolitan area
located along the Mohawk River and Erie Canal. In the
1800s and early 1900s, the majority of businesses were
paper and textile milling companies. In the mid-1900s,
the area began to support high-tech manufacturing and
the textile mills began to shut down. Like many industrial
cities in the northeast, Utica (population 61,368) has
experienced a significant decline in its tax and job base
over the past 50 years. Today, most textile mills are
closed or being used by different businesses, and most
high-tech industries have moved out of the State.
While many of the abandoned industrial sites in Utica
have known contamination, others are only perceived to
be contaminated. Adjacent industries are unwilling to
purchase properties due to the perceived environmental
contamination and associated liabilities. There are many
small abandoned and underused commercial/industrial
sites in Utica. The City is making active efforts to
demolish these buildings, remove the environmental and
health threats, and make room for new economic
growth. In the past two years, 300 abandoned structures
have been demolished; 250 of these sites have been
marketed, and some have been sold for redevelopment.
The Pilot will focus on the Foster Paper Company site,
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 07/01/1998
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot will target the Foster Paper
Company site, an abandoned paper manufacturing
facility, and three additional sites.
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 2 Brownfields Team
(212) 637-4309
EPA Region 2 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region02/brownfields/)
Grant Recipient: City of Utica,NY
(315) 792-0152
Objectives
The Pilot's objective is to prepare the Foster Paper
Company site and three additional sites for cleanup and
redevelopment. The Pilot plans to: perform site
assessments to characterize the extent and degree of
contamination; design cleanup plans to prepare the
properties for purchase and redevelopment; and provide
Utica community members with an understanding of
potential environmental and ownership concerns to
enable them.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
•	Conducting Phase I and II environmental
assessments of the Foster Paper Company site
and three additional sites to determine cleanup
levels and objectives required under the New
York State Voluntary Cleanup Program;
•	Integrating the assessment results into cleanup
plans for the sites; and
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an abandoned paper manufacturing facility, and three
additional sites.
• Conducting a Community Involvement Plan to
encourage community input and decision making
for reuse of the sites.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet
been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this
fact sheet are subject to change.
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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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 Utica to receive
supplemental assistance for its Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilot. Utica is a relatively small
metropolitan area located along the Mohawk River and
Erie Canal. In the 1800s and early 1900s, the majority of
businesses were paper and textile milling companies. In
the mid-1900s, the area began to support high-tech
manufacturing and the textile mills began to shut down.
Like many industrial cities in the northeast, Utica
(population 61,368) has experienced a significant decline
in its tax and job base over the past 50 years. Today,
most textile mills are closed or being used by different
businesses, and most high-tech industries have moved
out of the state.
While many of the abandoned industrial sites in Utica
have known contamination, others are only perceived to
be contaminated. One area that has many brownfields is
the Broad Street Corridor, an old industrial area where
some redevelopment has begun. The city has formed a
partnership with the Utica Municipal Housing Authority
and Oneida County to implement Utica's new Gateway
Plan, which merges the housing and economic
development objectives. These objectives will be
achieved, in part, by reusing the area's brownfields.
Further, the city hopes to attract technology-based
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Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 07/15/1998
Amount: $150,000
Profile: The Pilot plans to assess three brownfields
sites in the Gateway-Corridor area of Utica to help
spur their cleanup and redevelopment and revitalize
the area.
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 2 Brownfields Team
(212) 637-4309
EPA Region 2 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region02/brownfields/)
Grant Recipient: City of Utica,NY
(315) 792-0152
Objectives
The City of Utica plans to use supplemental assistance
funds to spur cleanup and revitalization of the Broad
Street Corridor area as well as the area encompassed in
the Gateway Plan (Gateway-Corridor area) by assessing
three area brownfield sites. The city has recently
refocused its brownfields efforts from single-site
redevelopment to a broader community-based
redevelopment effort, which has resulted in the
identification and historical review of brownfields
within the Broad Street Corridor.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
•	Complete Phase I and Phase II environmental
assessments on three sites in the targeted area:
the Goldbas site, the Durr Packing site, and the
Schuyler Street property; and
•	Identify cleanup levels and objectives and
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which surrounds the areas considered in the Gateway
Plan and the Broad Street Corridor Initiative.
develop a cleanup plan for each site.
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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