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Report Date: 7 Feb 08 Summary of the Current Revitalization of Brownfields Sites where EPA Funded Targeted Brownfields Assessments (TBAs) Have Been Completed­ EPA Region III Compiled by Jerry Curtin (3HW51) Land Revitalization Team; Brownfields and Land Revitalization Branch 1 Items of Interest 1. The cover page shows the Stainless site in Perkasie, PA before a Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA) was performed (upper photo) and the site after a TBA and appropriate revitalization (lower photo). The site is discussed in Table A of this report, item 8. Over an 80­year period, the site was used as an old site mill, a truck body manufacturing company and a stainless steel production facility. It is now the First Savings Bank Administrative Building. The cover photo is from the following website: http://www.gjdonovan.com/current.htm 2 Table of Contents Page A. Preface and Abbreviations 5 B. Background 9 C. Sites included in this report and their Table location 11 D. Results of the Evaluation 15 Table 1 Overall Revitalization Results 17 Table 2 Category of Revitalization for each site 18 E. Some of the Success Stories (Completely Redeveloped Sites) 19 F. Status of Sites 21 Table A: Completed TBAs and their status 23 Table B: Completed State Led SSAs and their status 39 Table C: Completed State SSAs overseen by the States 53 Table D: GAO specified TBAs­1998­99 101 G. Acknowledgements 105 H. Photos of Some of the Success Stories 107 I. Maps: Locations of Sites in Each State 123 Enclosures/Attachments/Appendices In a Separate Document 3 4 A. Preface and Abbreviations 1. What is a Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA)? A Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA) is an assessment conducted by EPA, states, and municipalities, using Federal EPA funding, to determine, in most cases, the nature and extent of environmental contamination at a Brownfields site. TBAs can be studies to determine the past and current owners of a site, as well as a detailed environmental sampling investigation of a site to determine the extent a property may be contaminated from past industrial practices. The purpose of a TBA is to assist states, municipalities and non­ profit organizations in redeveloping contaminated properties in their communities. A TBA will minimize the uncertainty surrounding the actual or perceived contamination associated with a property. Some state environmental agencies refer to TBAs as State Superfund Assessments (SSAs). For the purposes of this report from a definitional standpoint, TBA will refer to studies performed and managed by EPA at the request of a state, municipality, or non­profit using Federal funding. SSAs will be defined as TBAs performed and managed by the states using dedicated Federal Brownfields funding. The real difference between TBAs and SSAs, is that EPA actually directs the implementation of a TBA, while the states, municipalities, or non­profits, direct the SSAs. In all cases, Federal funding is used for the studies. 2. Purpose of this Report: This report examined the current ongoing and planned revitalization of Brownfields Sites in EPA Region III where EPA funded TBAs and SSAs have been completed. A effort was made not to double count sites as the important factor being investigated was the number of sites revitalized, and not the number of investigations performed. In some instances, it was difficult to distinguish between sites because of name changes or gaps of time between investigations or due to reporting inconsistencies. At sites where EPA performed the TBA we did not count any sites twice, even if the site had several parcels of land (like the War, WV site) or if the site had more than 1 TBA performed there (like the Kelly Springfield Site). Based on this parameter, there were 19 sites listed in this report where EPA performed TBAs since 1997. 1 Regarding SSAs, a site often was identified in the ACRES report as having several large parcels of land each having a separate SSA performed there. The individual parcels were large enough to have a specific parcel number or letter 1 Assessment, Cleanup and Redevelopment Exchange System (ACRES) 5 associated with it. An example of this was the Triumph Industrial Park as shown in Table C.149­169. At Triumph, 21 specific parcels were identified separately in ACRES. In these instances, we counted each parcel as a Site (with its own SSA) because that is what was reported in ACRES. However, we were able to identify 4 SSAs, outlined later, which were believed to be duplicate sites. (The same site with a different name.) These duplicate sites were not counted twice. 3. Abbreviations/Acronyms Used in this Report ACOE (US) Army Corps of Engineers ACRES (EPA) Assessment, cleanup and Redevelopment Exchange System ATSDR (US) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry BFA Brownfields Assessment CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act DCED (PA) Department of Economic Development DNREC (Delaware) Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control EPA (US) Environmental Protection Agency FEMA (US) Federal Emergency Management Agency GAO (US) General Accounting Office GW Groundwater HDG Havre de Grace, MD HW Hazardous Waste LUST Leaking Underground Storage Tanks MDE Maryland Department of the Environment NFA No Further Action NFRD No Further Requirements Determination NKCDC New Kensington Community Development Corporation PADEP Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection PA/SI Preliminary Assessment/ Site Investigation RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RI Remedial Investigation 6 TBA Targeted Brownfields Assessment SCWA Shade Creek (PA) Watershed Association SSA State Superfund Assessment UST Underground Storage Tank VADEQ Virginia Department of Environmental Quality VCP Voluntary Cleanup Program VR Voluntary Remediation WBIDC Wilkes Barre (PA) Industrial Development Corporation WVDEP West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection 7 8 B. Background Since Fiscal Year 1997, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has funded Targeted Brownfields Assessments (TBAs) through their Regional Offices. Based on this investigation, EPA funded TBAs have been completed at 232 Brownfields sites in the EPA Region III five state area since 1997. When a State agency oversees an EPA funded TBA, they often refer to these assessments as a State Superfund Assessments (SSA). The summary and evaluation provided here is based on an investigation of the TBAs/SSAs completed to date. EPA compiled this list of sites and their completion status based on input from several sources. The list of 19 sites, overseen and funded by EPA and listed in Table A, was provided by Drew Lausch, EPA Region III TBA Coordinator, Enclosure A. Some of this information predates Drew’s role as TBA coordinator so additional information was compiled by contacting various owners, EPA project officers, local officials, development agencies, and state environmental agencies. The information in the enclosed summary reflects information available in the existing EPA files, available internet information, fact sheets and input from points of contact. Tables B and C reflects TBAs or SSAs which were done by or overseen by State Environmental Agencies. The Sites listed in Table B were provided by Mark Stephens, the Chief of EPA Region III’s Administrative Support Branch. Mark provided a list of 28 sites where SSAs were completed between 2004­2007. This list is provided as Enclosure B. In addition to these 28 sites, the Assessment, Cleanup and Redevelopment Exchange System (ACRES) data base lists another 188 sites which had TBAs/SSAs completed by State Agencies over the last 10 years. This list is included as Enclosure C. Finally, a list of FY­98/FY­99 EPA funded sites were listed in an October 27, 1999 US General Accounting Office (GAO) letter. In examining this list, most of the sites provided were included in Tables A, B or C. However, there was one new site provided and that site is listed in Enclosure D. EPA Region III has had significant contact with State Environmental Agencies, owners and local development agencies, via e­mail and telephone, in an effort to establish the current status of revitalization of the sites in question. We appreciate their assistance in the compilation of this report. In merging the 4 sources of information listed above, EPA found that there was some overlap of information and some sites were listed twice. EPA attempted to eliminate all duplicate sites from our final count of completed sites. Our final list is broken down as follows: 9 Table A­ EPA Completed TBAs at 19 listed sites­Enclosure A Table B­State Led Completed TBAs/SSAs under Section 128a were conducted at 28 listed sites­ Enclosure B Table C­State Oversight of Completed TBAs done with Superfund Grants (ACRES) were conducted at 188 listed sites 2 (but 4 duplicate sites) ­ Enclosure (C) Table D­GAO specified TBAs in 1998­99 were conducted at 1 listed site ­Enclosure D (Other sites in the Table were previously listed in Tables A­C.) A total of 236 sites (minus 4 duplicate sites) for total of 232 Brownfields sites had EPA funded TBAs completed since 1997. 2 Duplicates are (Table) numbers C23, C25, C84 and C140 10 C. List of Sites examined in this Report Sites are listed alphabetically by state. Next to the Site location, in parenthesis, is the location of the sites in the tables of this report. For Example, in the “250 South Madison St­Wilmington­(C.2)” entry below, the South Madison site can be found in Table C, number 2. Delaware (67) 250 South Madison St­Wilmington­(C.2)

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