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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 selected the City of Trenton for a Brownfields
Pilot. Trenton, a city of 89,000 people located in central
New Jersey, was a prominent 19th-century
manufacturing center. Initially producing flour and steel,
the City later attracted manufacturers of other products
such as paper, wood, cotton, bricks, and pottery. As its
manufacturing industry declined, Trenton was left with a
host of abandoned industrial buildings that pose potential
environmental threats.
Trenton has formed a partnership with a private,
non-profit community redevelopment organization, Isles
Inc., and has established working relationships with the
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
(NJDEP), the New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Rutgers University, and local community
development corporations to address these issues.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 09/01/1995
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot targets more than 600 acres of
potential brownfields within Trenton's Urban
Enterprise Zone.
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 Trenton,NJ
(609)989-3504
Objectives
The objectives of Trenton's brownfields effort are to
identify the problems, opportunities, and resources of
Trenton's brownfields sites. This will be accomplished
by integrating environmental, technical, and financial
resources to develop a comprehensive strategy for site
assessment, cleanup, and reuse. The Pilot intends to
emphasize community training, education, and outreach
to involve low-income, minority citizens in its
brownfields effort.
Trenton plans to foster an accelerated process of moving
vacant/abandoned brownfields sites to community
assets. The Brownfields Environmental Solutions for
Trenton (BEST) Advisory Council will be used to
evaluate the program.
Activities
The Pilot has:
Begun environmental investigations at 15 abandoned
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industrial sites, and completed Preliminary
Assessment/Site Inspection (PA/SI) activities on the
first four sites; and Created the Brownfields
Environmental Solution for Trenton (BEST) Advisory
Council, consisting of area professionals, to advise the
City and its partners on redevelopment issues. The Pilot
is:
•	Undertaking further intensive community
outreach efforts in neighborhoods affected by
brownfields, as in the case of the Magic Marker
Plant, the City's largest brownfields site. With the
help of community members, in-home
presentations and education workshops at
Rutgers University have been held;
•	Planning cleanup and reuse of one site as part of
the development of a revolving funding
mechanism for the cleanup ofbrownfield sites;
•	Performing environmentally-related market
analyses to identify industries suitable for
brownfields initiatives; and
•	Forming an Eco-Industrial Roundtable
Discussion group for the Eco-Industrial program
in Trenton.
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Experience with the Trenton Pilot has been a catalyst
for related activities including the following.
•	Conducted cleanup, with the help of public and
private dollars, and preparing several properties
at the Crane site for redevelopment. A
12,000-square foot manufacturing plant is being
constructed that will produce upscale candles. In
addition, a turkey processing plant will begin
construction shortly. A slaughterhouse will also
be built within the next few years. The
development of two more facilities is currently in
the planning process. With these potential
developments in place, this future reuse of the
property is expected to result in several hundred
new jobs, primarily construction, assembly line,
foremen, and management jobs.
•	The former Champlale Warehouse will be
converted into a food processing plant, with a
retail outlet and cafe, and the Reservoir Street
Site will be developed into an affordable housing
project.
•	Working with Mercer County Community
College and the Department of Environmental
Protection to explore the potential for "green" job
opportunities.
•	Partnerships with organizations such as Rutgers
Center for Environmental Communication,
NJDEP, and NJIT will provide the opportunity
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for the evaluation of the success of project
initiatives.
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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Brownfields 1995 Supplemental Assessment
Pilot Fact Sheet
City of Trenton, NJ
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 Trenton supplemental
assistance for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration
Pilot and additional funding for assessments at
brownfields properties to be used for greenspace
purposes. Trenton (population 89,000), located in central
New Jersey, was a prominent nineteenth-century
manufacturing center. Initially producing flour and steel,
the city later attracted manufacturers of other products
such as paper, wood, cotton, bricks, and pottery. As its
manufacturing industry declined, Trenton was left with a
host of abandoned industrial buildings that pose potential
environmental threats.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 03/01/2000
Amount: $150,000
$50,000 for Greenspace
Profile: City of Trenton, NJ. The Pilot targets a
number of sites throughout the city, including the
Lenox site, the Roebling Complex, and sites along
Assunpink Creek.
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 Trenton,NJ
(609)989-3603
Objectives
Trenton will use the supplemental assistance to continue
its brownfields efforts that focus on neighborhood
revitalization and economic development. Trenton's
goal is to identify the reuse potential of each brownfield
site within the context of the larger neighborhood or
economic strategy, work with the community to develop
a more focused plan, and seek a developer who is
willing to work within the community's vision. Trenton's
aggressive redevelopment efforts follow the Master
Land Use Plan, which was developed with significant
community input.
The Pilot will use the greenspace funding to target
brownfield sites along the Assunpink Creek. The city
would like to acquire, assess, and ultimately develop
these sites into a greenway that will provide
recreational, economic, and educational opportunities to
the community. The city believes that creation of the
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greenway will revitalize surrounding industrial parks,
thus creating jobs for Trenton residents, and will
increase open space to help protect the watershed and
prevent recurrent flooding problems. Additionally, the
greenway will create a link between neighborhoods,
places of work and recreation, and historic sites.
To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:
•	Upgrade and maintain the Trenton brownfields
database to prepare for integration into a planned
statewide brownfields database;
•	Develop redevelopment plans for the remaining
portion of the Roebling Steel and Wire Works
•	Create a national model for dealing with the
revitalization of urban schools, as it impacts
neighborhood development and economic
opportunity at brownfield sites;
•	Engage in comprehensive planning for
integrating redevelopment efforts, identifying
appropriate locations for new public facilities,
addressing ownership issues, performing site
assessments, and involving the community; and
•	Conduct site assessments of the properties along
Assunpink Creek, as part of the city's plan to
develop the Assunpink Creek Greenway.
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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