Brownfields Supplemental Assistance Fact Sheet

PILOT SNAPSHOT
	Date of Announcement: March 2000 Amount: $120,000
Target Area: Town of Greenfield, MA Profile: The Pilot targets two former tool manufacturing plants for additional assessment and cleanup design activities.

BACKGROUND

EPA awarded the Town of Greenfield supplemental assistance for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot. Greenfield is the seat of Franklin County and a major regional employment center. The town has experienced a significant decline in its industrial base during the last 20 years, resulting in the abandonment of many older industrial/commercial buildings in the town's center. The town also experienced a 37 percent loss in manufacturing jobs between 1980 and 1990 and estimates that 900 additional jobs were lost between 1990 and 1995.

The supplemental funds will be directed towards additional assessment and cleanup design activities at two sites: (1) the Greenfield Tap & Die (GTD) facility, which is an abandoned 145,000-square-foot machine tool manufacturing plant dating back to the 1870s; and 2) the Winer site, which is a former tool manufacturing building currently used for storage. The town intends to acquire the Winer site to restore flood storage capacity to the Maple Book watershed.

OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

Based on a clear mandate from the public, the town's comprehensive redevelopment initiative (dubbed "The Brownfields to Greenfields" program) seeks to encourage and support redevelopment of existing abandoned or underused commercial/industrial sites. The town has made this an economic development priority based on input received in several collaborative planning processes from 1995 through 1999. The town intends to be an active facilitator in cleanup and redevelopment activities and will expedite such activities through a streamlined assessment phase. The GTD and Winer properties are both targeted under the town's initiative. For both of these sites, the Pilot will finalize assessment and design activities to enable commencement of cleanup activities.

To accomplish these objectives, the Pilot plans to:

• Conduct further assessment investigations at the GTD site;

• Conduct a bioremediation study of cleanup alternatives at the GTD site; and

• Develop a risk characterization report for the swarf area of the GTD site.

The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.

CONTACTS

Town of Greenfield
Office of Planning and Community Development
(413) 772-1548

Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 1
(617) 918-1209

Visit the EPA Region 1 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region01/brownfields/index.html

For further information, including specific Pilot contacts, additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/