Office of Site Remediation 

Enforcement (2271A) February 2007 

Washington, DC 20460 Issue #32 

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inside 

New Hampshire Plating 2 

Veterans Administration Ready for Reuse

Program Revitalizing Spectron Settlement 3 

Malibu Bay Development Brownfields in Region 6 

Cardwell Redevelopment 4 

n January 24, 2007, Gautreaux, Deputy Secretary of LDEQ, BKK Landfill Redevelopment Othe Louisiana Depart- helped present the determinations to

ment of Environmental Qual- Mr. Ken Massett of CS Metals and Mr. Roosevelt Roads 5 

ity (LDEQ) and EPA Region 6 presented Ralph Caddell of Syngenta. Potomac Yard 

Ready for Reuse (RfR) determinations Although the RfR determination 

to CS Metals of Louisiana, LLC and does not bind the regulatory authority In the Courts 6 

Syngenta ARC Cert. Petition Granted 

Crop Protec- Successor Liability Ruling Reversed 

tion, Inc. The 

Ready for Re- Tidbits 7 

Geospatial Data Access use program,

launched by Innovative Campus Opens 

Region 6 in Brownfields Tax Incentive 

2003, offers a 

technical de- Calendar 8 

termination Glossary 

that the extent of site Officials sign the RfR determination letters ing a transparent 

contamina- and certificates for CS Metals and statement on the 

not to take future action at a site, most 

Ready for Reuse 

sites do not require 

further remediation. 

The accuracy of RfR 

determinations has 

made them a valuable tool for developers and financial institutions by providSyngenta. Featured (from left to right) tion has been environmental risk 

determined are: Ralph Cadell, Syngenta Plant associated with a 

and cleaned Manager; Karen Gautreaux, LDEQ Deputy cleaned up property. 

up to levels Secretary; Troy Hill, EPA Region 6 RCRA 

Associate Director; and Ken Massett, CS A Ready for Reuse 

appropriate pilot program has Metals Plant Manager. Looking on is Dr. for the also been adopted as James Brent, LDEQ Principal Assistant to planned or the Assistant Secretary. part of EPA’s Nacurrent land tional Land RevitalCleanupNews is a monthly use. To date, Region 6 has issued 27 ization Agenda, announced in April 

newsletter highlighting hazardous RfR determinations, eight of which have 2003, to implement a policy of reuse waste cleanup cases, policies, 

settlements and technologies. been issued jointly with LDEQ. During for all cleaned-up properties. Under 

the presentation in Baton Rouge, Troy this program, at least one Superfund 

Hill, Assistant Director of Region 6’s site in each EPA region has received a 

RCRA Multimedia Planning and Per- Ready for Reuse determination. 

mitting Division, noted that, “One of the LDEQ has embraced the RfR program 

advantages of the Ready for Reuse Pro- as the capstone of its innovative apgram is its ability to focus up the facil- proach to RCRA cleanups, which relies 

ity, state, and EPA to work on a streamlined corrective action 

collaboratively to resolve issues and strategy developed by Region 6 as well 

move forward quickly with the investi- as the state’s risk-based regulations. 

gation and cleanup process.” Karen Citizens can help by reporting continued on page 5

potential environmental violations 

at (800) 424-8802. 

EPA’s mission is to protect our 

nation’s land, air and water. 

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EPA Reaches Construction Complete

Milestone at New Hampshire Plating

Highlights

The 13-acre New Hampshire 

Plating site in Merrimack, 

New Hampshire recently 

reached the Construction Complete 

milestone as the result of a joint effort 

of EPA and the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services 

(NHDES). Construction at the site 

consisted of completing soil excavation 

and treatment and installing an impermeable cap. 

The New Hampshire Plating site 

operated as an electroplating facility 

from 1962 to 1985, discharging waste 

water containing metals, solvents, and 

cyanide into building drains that 

flowed into unlined lagoons. Leaching 

from the lagoons led to contamination 

of on-site wetlands, surface and subsurface soils, and area ground water. 

New Hampshire Plating went out of 

business in 1991. As one of the site 

owners died shortly after New Hampshire Plating was dissolved, and the 

other was never located, EPA has had 

to spend over $22 million on interim 

cleanup measures, comprehensive site 

investigations, and final design and 

Laborers installing erosion control 

matting at the New Hampshire 

Plating site. 

cleanup activities at the site, all in close 

coordination with NHDES. 

Contaminated soils were treated using a chemical fixation process that 

binds metal contaminants to soil particles, preventing them from further 

contaminating area ground water. 

Damage to portions of the on-site wetlands was offset by purchase of two 

wetland areas totaling 88 acres in the 

vicinity of Merrimack and Litchfield, 

New Hampshire at a cost of over $1.6 

million. 

In addition to conducting cleanup activities at the site, EPA awarded the 

Town of Merrimack a $99,000 

Superfund Reuse and Study of Reuse 

Grant to facilitate development of a 

reuse plan for the site, which will be 

turned into a recreational area with 

walking and biking trails and ball 

fields. 

For additional information, contact 

David Deegan, EPA New England, (617) 

918-1017 or deegan.dave@epa.gov. 

Veterans Administration Ordered to 

Improve Waste Management 

Pursuant to a consent agree 

ment and final order that 

became effective January 21, 

2007, the Veterans Administration 

(VA) will pay a civil penalty of $49,748 

and spend at least an additional 

$500,000 to implement a supplemental environmental project in response 

to violations of RCRA Sections 3002 

and 3004 at its White River Junction 

Facility in Vermont. The hospital 

placed patients and staff in danger by 

improperly handling hazardous chemicals, including ether and picric acid. 

These explosive wastes have been removed from hospital laboratories and 

pathology areas. EPA has ordered the 

implementation of a chemical tracking program (CTP) in all eight New England VA hospitals. 

The CTP must include an inventory 

control program, a centralized chemical purchasing system, waste tracking 

system, and waste minimization strategies. The inventory control program 

will track purchased chemical products 

by container bar code so the VA will 

know the location of hazardous chemicals down to a specific cabinet within 

any given facility. The program also 

will help minimize waste generation 

by promoting reuse and helping to avoid 

purchasing too much product. Before a 

purchase is made, the chemical purchasing system will help identify a less 

hazardous substitute for dangerous 

chemicals, thereby reducing the amount 

of hazardous chemicals used and requiring disposal. The CTP will also 

track waste chemicals and provide hospital staff with information needed to 

properly store and handle dangerous 

wastes. 

The program must be fully implemented within 16 months of the effective date of the settlement, and will be 

evaluated in 30 months to measure the 

VA’s progress in reaching the goals of 

pollution prevention, waste minimization, and increased recycling and reuse 

of chemicals. The evaluation will measure the hazardous chemical inventories and quantities of hazardous chemicals reused and disposed of. Results 

will be compared to pre-implementation measurements in order to judge the 

program’s effectiveness. 

For additional information, contact 

David Deegan, EPA New England, (617) 

918-1017 or deegan.dave@epa.gov. 

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EPAAnnounces $21.8 Million Announces $21.8 Million

Spectron Settlement on Settlement

On January 18, 2007, EPA ral resources include Little Elk Creek clared bankruptcy in 1975. Shortly 

lodged a consent decree in adjacent to the site. Seepage of sol- thereafter, the operation was rethe U.S. District Court for vent-related contaminants has dis- opened under the name Solvent Disthe District of Maryland that would rupted the migratory patterns of creek tillers, Inc., and operated until 1988, 

bring PRP funding of cleanup of the fish such as the blueback herring. when it went bankrupt under the 

Spectron Superfund site to over 96 name Spectron Inc. PCE and TCE 

percent of estimated cleanup costs. contamination at the site came from 

The settlement addresses improper waste handling methods, 

remediation to be carried out in op- including the storage of waste in onerable units 1 and 2. While there is site lagoons. The site was listed on 

a ROD in place for OU1 (shallow the NPL in May 1994. 

aquifer), remedial investigation is Cleanup of OU1 should begin in 

still continuing for OU2 (deep aqui­ the spring and will include demolifer). In other words, the settling par­ tion of on-site buildings, consolidaties have agreed to cover the cost of tion of soils under a RCRA-approved 

OU2 remediation without a final- cap, and bioremediation to address 

ized ROD. This will allow the cleanup shallow ground water contaminaof OU2 to get under way as soon as tion. Current investigation work at 

the ROD is completed without hav- Installation of deep aquifer ground water OU2 includes continued study of the 

ing to seek a separate settlement. monitoring wells at the Spectron site. extent of contamination in the deep 

The $21.8 million settlement in- bedrock. 

cludes a payment of $507,300 for natu- Galaxy Chemicals Inc. began solvent For additional information, contact 

ral resource damages. Damaged natu- recycling activities at the site in 1961 David Sternberg, Region 3, (215) 814-

and continued operating until it de- 5548. 

Brownfields Loan Fund Catalyzes 

Cleanup and Reuse in Florida 

The Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (BRLF) provided the catalyst to turn a derelict golf course into a vibrant 

new apartment community in South Florida. The BRLF awarded the South Florida Regional Planning Council 

(SFRPC) a $2.2 pilot program grant in 2001, enabling SFRPC to provide an $800,000 loan to developer Executive 

Trust Limited to assist in cleanup of the former Palm Beach Lakes Golf Course and conversion of part of it into the highdensity Malibu Bay housing development. 

The developer provided additional funding of nearly $3 million, and the Housing Finance Authority of Palm Beach 

County chipped in approximately $22 million raised through issuance of Florida Housing Finance Corporation-guaranteed Multifamily Housing Revenue Bonds. As a result of the Malibu Bay development’s success, housing organizations 

at different levels of government throughout the state have begun to take a more active role in the financing of brownfields 

projects. 

The Palm Beach Lakes Golf Course operated from 1969 until it closed in 1996. The site was found to have high 

concentrations of arsenic in the soil, surface water, and ground water as a result of maintenance of the tees by use of 

fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Contaminated soil was excavated and removed off site, and institutional controls 

are required for the site. A deed restriction will include a statement prohibiting use of ground water for any purpose and 

forbidding installation of irrigation and potable wells. The redevelopment made 264 multi-family apartments available 

to low- and moderate- income people in the West Palm Beach area, and has spurred additional construction of condominiums, retail shops, and restaurants adjacent to Malibu Bay. 

For additional information, contact Wanda Jennings, Region 4, (404) 562-8682, or Terry Manning, South Florida Regional Planning Council, (954) 985-4416. 

Highlights

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Site Redevelopment

Reuse and Redevelopment Planned for

Former Removal Site 

EPA Region 7 completed a 

time-critical removal action at the former Cardwell 

Hospital site in Stella, Missouri in 

September 2006. The action, which 

began in July 2006, included excavation and removal of asbestos-contaminated soil and demolition and 

removal of on-site buildings. The privately owned hospital was built in the 

1920s, served the southwest corner 

of Missouri until the 1970s, and was 

subsequently operated as a nursing 

home until it was abandoned in the 

early 1980s. The site and its buildings were then purchased by a group 

of investors who eventually sold them 

to the town of Stella. 

A group of town officials approached 

Region 7’s Land Revitalization Coordinator at the 2004 Brownfields Conference in St. Louis to discuss concerns 

they had about the site’s safety. As a 

result of that contact, a site assessment was completed in May 2005, revealing both safety and environmental 

problems at the site. In particular, soil 

and ambient air testing determined 

that the buildings were releasing quantities of friable asbestos into the environment. The town used an EPA Technical Assistance for Brownfields grant 

to engage students and faculty at the 

Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design to help 

the community draft a site reuse plan 

that calls for future retail and commercial development of the site. 

The site also was selected for beta 

pilot testing of the SMARTe (Sustainable Management Approaches and 

Revitalization Tools – electronic) system, a web-based, menu-driven, decision analysis support system being 

developed by EPA’s Office of 

Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment for developing and evaluating reuse scenarios for contaminated land. 

This resulted in the development of a 

draft Master Plan for redevelopment 

of the area that will be presented at a 

public meeting in Stella scheduled for 

February 20. 

For additional information, contact 

Belinda Young, Community Involvement Coordinator, Region 7, (913) 551-

7463, or David Doyle, Land Revitalization Coordinator, Region 7, (913) 551-

7667. 

Redevelopment of Former Landfill 

Gets Underway in Southern California 

A prospective purchaser 

agreement between EPA 

Region 9, the Department 

of Justice, and the City of West 

Covina, California led to 

groundbreaking in October 2006 for 

redevelopment of a former landfill 

site. The agreement facilitated the 

city’s purchase of portions of the BKK 

Landfill site by protecting the city 

from RCRA and CERCLA owner liability for existing contamination. 

The city entered into a similar agreement with the California Department 

of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) 

to protect it from owner liability under state law. 

The BKK site is a 583-acre parcel 

that includes a closed Class I hazardous waste landfill and an inactive 

Class III municipal solid waste landfill. The Class I landfill received 3.4 

million tons of liquid and solid hazardous wastes between 1972 and 

1984, and was certified closed in 1989. 

The Class III facility began operating 

in 1987 and is currently undergoing final closure under California Integrated 

Waste Management Board and city 

oversight. 

The city purchased approximately 

250 acres of the site. Proceeds of the 

sale were deposited into escrow acWest Covina, California recently 

celebrated groundbreaking for the 

Big League Dreams Sports Park. 

counts established in accordance 

with the PPA to fund Class I landfill post-closure activities and environmental monitoring at one of 

the development projects. EPA removed restrictions for parks and 

playgrounds on the portion of the 

site purchased by the city for recreational use in return for landfill 

gas and indoor air monitoring at 

the recreational development to be 

funded from one of the escrow accounts. Development projects include a large commercial area, an 

18-hole public championship golf 

course, and a large recreational 

facility called the Big League 

Dreams Sports Park that will replicate some of the nation’s landmark baseball parks. 

For additional information 

please contact Deirdre Nurre, Region 

9, (415) 947-4290, or Carmen 

Santos, Region 9, (415) 972-3360. 

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Landmark Agreement Reached at

In the Spotlight

Former Naval Station

EPA employees are settling into 

new office space at One and Two 

Potomac Yard in Arlington, Virginia. 

The new buildings were designed to 

meet the gold standard in sustainable construction according to the 

Green Building Council’s LEED® criteria (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). EPA leases 

more than 400,000 of the 650,000 

square feet of the two towers to accommodate approximately 1,600 

EPA employees in the Office of Solid 

Waste and Emergency Response and 

the Office of Prevention, Pesticides, 

and Toxic Substances. The LEED® 

rating system for new construction 

gives points for the redevelopment of 

Brownfields or properties such as 

Potomac Yard that are considered 

“Brownfield-like”. 

Years before the developers broke 

ground, EPA Region 3 and the Virginia Department of Environmental 

Quality issued “no further action” letters for the entire property known as 

Potomac Yard, which was once operated as a railroad switching and maintenance yard, after removal actions had 

addressed metals and petroleum materials contamination.

 EPA and the General Services Administration (GSA) worked with developer Crescent Resources, LLC to upgrade the original site design to meet 

more stringent federal standards that 

require at least a silver LEED® rating 

for new construction as well as post 9/ 

11 security requirements. The two 

buildings earned the gold certification 

by scoring 43 and 44 out of a possible 

69 points for efforts in the following areas: sustainable site planning, water 

efficiency, energy and atmosphere conservation, materials and resources, and 

indoor environmental quality. 

in Green Building 

EPA’s Offices at Potomac 

Yard Set the Gold Standard 

The former Roosevelt Roads 

Naval Station in Puerto 

Rico is the subject of a landmark agreement and administrative 

order between EPA and the U.S. Navy. 

The order, which was signed by EPA 

January 29, 2007, calls for the Navy 

to clean up portions of the 8,600-acre 

site under EPA oversight with the 

ultimate goal of transferring over 

5.400 acres to the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico and local governments. 

Property to be transferred includes 

3,333 acres of wetlands and other 

conservation areas, 1,851 acres devoted to airport and seaport operations, and 291 acres for economic development purposes. Remaining acreage 

will be made available for sale to private buyers with the understanding that 

purchasers will complete cleanup activities not completed by the Navy. 

The former naval station is about 33 

miles southeast of San Juan, Puerto 

Rico, and was closed pursuant to a Base 

Realignment and Closure Commission 

decision in 2004. It includes a port facility, a major airfield complex, and two 

uninhabited islands previously used for 

military training. The site is one of the 

largest naval facilities to be subject to 

an EPA cleanup order. 

Major areas of concern during 

cleanup operations include an inactive 

85-acre landfill, scheduled to be capped 

and monitored, petroleum storage areas that have led to localized ground 

water contamination, and a defunct 

power plant contaminated with PCBs. 

Contamination of the station is most 

likely due to operation and maintenance of air and water craft there since 

1941. The agreement and order set 

forth the cleanup requirements that 

must be achieved before the parcels 

may be transferred to the Commonwealth or other governmental entities. 

For additional information, contact 

Leo Rosales, Region 2, (518) 747-4389 

or rosales.leo@epa.gov. 

RfR, continued from page 1 

Under this strategy, CS Metals accomplished clean closure of its metals recovery facility in Convent, Louisiana 

in just over a year and a half. 

Remediation included removal of impacted concrete and soils and demolition of site buildings. The resulting 

RfR determination enabled the owner 

to sell the property back to the previous owner for future industrial use. 

Syngenta received determinations 

for two portions of its St. Gabriel facility used by previous owners as an 

equalization pond and wastewater 

treatment surface impoundments. 

Syngenta and previous site owners 

completed closure and post-closure at 

the equalization pond in 2000 and the 

surface impoundment in 2003. 

Syngenta is working with Region 6 and 

LDEQ to gain an RfR determination 

for the entire St. Gabriel site. 

For additional information, contact 

Jeanne Schulze, Region 6, (214) 665-

7254, or Narendra Dave, LDEQ, (225) 

219-3795. Check out the Ready for Reuse program on line at http:// 

www.epa.gov/region6/ready4reuse/ 

index.htm. 

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In the Courts

Supreme Court to 

Resolve PRP 

CERCLA Section 

107 Costs Issue 

By Clarence E. Featherson, OSRE 

On January 22, 2007, the United 

States Supreme Court granted the 

United States’ petition for a writ of 

certiorari in United States v. Atlantic 

Research Corp., No. 06-562 (October 

24, 2006). The Supreme Court has 

scheduled oral arguments for April 23, 

2007. 

The United States had requested 

that the Supreme Court review the 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth

Circuit’s (Eighth Circuit) decision in 

Atlantic Research Corp. v. United 

States, 459 F.3d 827 (8th Cir. Aug. 11, 

2006) that a PRP may pursue an action for cost recovery or exercise an 

implied right of contribution under 

CERCLA Section 107. The United 

States had asserted that PRPs may 

seek recovery of CERCLA response 

costs only under CERCLA Section 

113. Recent circuit court decisions 

have created a post-Aviall split among 

federal appellate courts as to the ability of PRPs either to bring a claim for 

direct cost recovery or exercise an implied right of contribution for 

CERCLA response costs under 

CERCLA Section 107. The Second, 

Seventh and Eighth Circuits have 

ruled that PRPs may bring claims 

under CERCLA Section 107, but the 

Third Circuit has ruled that PRPs 

may bring claims only under 

CERCLA Section 113. Two other certiorari petitions have been filed with 

the Supreme Court concerning the 

Second Circuit’s decision in 

Consolidated Edison Co. of 

N.Y., Inc. v. UGI Utils., Inc., 

Aug. 29, 2006), that PRPs do not have 

an implied right of contribution under 

Section 107 of CERCLA. The Supreme 

Court has not announced if it will 

grant the certiorari petitions arising 

from those cases. 

For background information on this 

case, see CleanupNews 31, December 

2006. 

For additional information, contact 

Clarence E. Featherson, (202) 564-

4234. 

Successor 

Liability Not 

Established 

Under Substantial 

Continuity Test 

By Clarence E. Featherson, OSRE 

On January 4, 2007, the United 

States Court of Appeals for the Eighth 

Circuit (Eighth Circuit) ruled that a 

district court incorrectly imposed successor liability on DeAngelo Brothers, 

Inc. in a contribution lawsuit under 

CERCLA Section 113 for response 

costs for the cleanup of a portion of the 

Armour Road Superfund site. K.C. 

1986 Limited Partnership v. Reade 

Manufacturing, No. 05-2064 (8th Cir. 

Jan. 4, 2007). 

The site was contaminated by herbicides produced there by several 

firms, including U.S. Borax. In 1986, 

the site was purchased by Habco, Inc., 

which was principally owned by Donald 

Horne. Contamination of the site continued under Habco, which sold its operating assets, but not the site, to a 

new company, Habco-Loram, Inc. 

Donald Horne remained involved with 

Habco-Loram, which subsequently exUPDATE

perienced financial problems and sold 

him its assets. Horne then formed a 

new company, Habco International, 

Inc., which carried on many of Habco’s 

and Habco-Loram’s operations at a 

different location and did not own or 

lease the site. In 1997, DeAngelo 

Brothers purchased Habco International, which merged with DeAngelo 

Brothers in 1998. In January 2005, in 

a CERCLA contribution lawsuit 

brought by U.S. Borax, the district 

court, using the substantial continuity test, allocated 15 percent of past 

and future response costs for the site 

to DeAngelo Brothers as a successor 

corporation to Habco. 

On appeal, the Eighth Circuit stated 

that the “arm’s length nature” of the 

transactions between Habco and 

Habco-Loram was only for a sale of 

assets. (Habco-Loram’s agreement to 

purchase Habco’s assets expressly 

stated that it was not assuming 

Habco’s liabilities.) The Eighth Circuit stated that the assets acquired 

by DeAngelo Brothers never became 

“magically re-entangled” with the contaminated property that constituted 

the site. The court also stated that it 

did not have to address the issues of 

whether the substantial continuity 

test is still valid or if state law should 

have been applied to determine successor liability, because there was 

never a continuity of shareholders between Habco and Habco-International. 

Such continuity is a key element needed 

to find successor liability under either 

state corporate law or federal common 

law. The Eighth Circuit reversed the 

district court’s decision and remanded 

the case to allocate DeAngelo Brother’s 

liability to Donald Horne, who was held 

to be 40 percent liable by the district 

court based on his involvement in Habco. 

For additional informa- 423 F.3d 90, (2d Cir. 2005), On January 8, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the tion, contact Clarence E. and the Third Circuit’s deci- petition for a writ of certiorari filed in The Coy/Superior 

sion in DuPont v. United Team v. BNFL, Inc., No. 06-656. See “In the Courts”, Featherson, (202) 564-

States, 460 F.3d 515 (3rd Cir. CleanupNews # 31, December 2006. 4234. 

6 cleanupnews
EPA Geospatial 

Data Access 

Project Launches 

XML Service 

The EPA Geospatial Data Access 

Project launched an XML download 

service at a public meeting in Alexandria, Virginia on January 17, 2007. 

The service enables download to an 

Internet-accessible, XML (extensible 

markup language) file of geospatial 

information on facilities and sites of 

environmental interest to the Agency. 

The XML files contain the name, location (latitude/longitude) of, and program information for specific facilities 

and sites. They can be used with mapping applications, and include a URL 

(uniform resource locator) providing 

access to further information about a 

specific location. 

The download service is an effort of 

the Office of Environmental Information (OEI) to increase public awareness 

of environmental activities and access 

to environmental data. Geospatial 

information allows the Agency to integrate records across programs (e.g., 

air, water, toxics, cleanup) by location, 

providing a source of coordinated environmental data. The first installment of data consists of information 

about sites on the Superfund National 

Priorities List. OEI plans to post 

monthly data updates and users can 

elect to receive e-mail notifications of 

them. The second installment, due the 

end of February, will include information on treatment, disposal, and storage facilities and large-quantity generators, and the 2004 Toxic Release 

Inventory. In addition to XML, a 

shapefile format will also be available 

for download. 

The download service is available at 

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/. The only 

system requirements for using the 

service are a web browser and connection to the World Wide Web. The service also functions as a data quality 

assurance tool as it offers users the 

opportunity to notify EPA of data errors by way of a Report an Error button. 

Brownfields 

Grant Supports 

Innovative 

Campus 

A seven-acre contaminated site in 

Providence, Rhode Island is now the 

location of a new building housing 

educational and developmental programs for children and young adults, 

thanks in part to a $200,000 

Brownfields cleanup grant awarded 

to Meeting Street, a non-profit organization, in September 2004. Meeting Street opened its new facility on 

January 2, 2007 on a former commercial and residential site after cleanup 

of lead, arsenic, and other hazardous 

substances. 

Meeting Street was established in 

1946 to provide integrated educational and therapeutic services to children with disabilities and development delays. Today it is recognized 

as an educational innovator for students of all abilities. Meeting Street’s 

new custom-designed, 76,000-squarefoot, “green” building includes The 

Grace School, a K-8 school that will 

eventually enroll children of all abilities in every classroom; The Carter 

School, a high school for students with 

severe and profound disabilities; the 

fully inclusive, accredited Bright Futures Early Learning Center; Meeting Street Early Intervention; outpatient Specialty Services; and The 

Children’s Network, a school-readiness program for children from lowincome Providence families. The 

building’s clinical facilities, gymnasium, therapeutic pool, and family resource center will also be available to 

the entire community, along with 

about three acres of new green space, 

outdoor play areas, and athletic 

fields. Meeting Street’s new campus 

is expected to foster investment in a 

neighborhood with historically high 

unemployment and poverty rates. 

Michael Schrader, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for 

Meeting Street, said that “the 

$200,000 cooperative agreement with 

the EPA contributed substantially to 

the project’s success. These monies 

were essential for Meeting Street to 

secure the site’s safety as well as donor and public confidence, resulting in 

$24 million in public and private gifts, 

bond funding, and other support.” EPA 

offers brownfields assistance of up to 

$200,000 through three of its four competitive grant programs -- assessment, 

cleanup, and job training -- and up to 

$1 million through its revolving loan 

fund grants. 

Brownfields Tax 

Incentive 

Extended and 

Expanded 

The Tax Relief and Health Care Act 

of 2006, signed into law by President 

Bush on December 20, includes an extension and expansion of the 

Brownfields Tax Incentive. The Act 

renews the tax incentive effective January 1, 2006 and extends it until December 31, 2007. The new law allows 

deduction of cleanup costs in the year 

incurred instead of requiring the deduction to be spread out over time. It also 

expands the incentive’s scope to include 

expenses of cleaning up petroleum 

products, i.e., crude oil, crude oil condensates, and natural gasoline. Such 

expenses had previously been ineligible. Entities seeking to take advantage of the incentive still must receive 

a certification of eligibility from their 

state cleanup program contacts. 

EPA is currently updating guidelines 

and other information resources to reflect changes made by the new law. 

Information on the incentive, including 

state cleanup program contacts, is 

available at http://www.epa.gov/ 

brownfields/bftaxinc.htm. 

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Tidbits
Calendar February 26 - March 3, 2007 

SWANA’s Recycling and Special Waste 

Conference 

Tampa, Florida 

March 13 - 14, 2007 

AWMA Hazardous Waste Combustors 

Conference and Exhibition 

Charleston, South Carolina 

April 4 - 5, 2007 

2007 Conference on Design and 

Construction Issues at Hazardous 

Waste Sites 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

April 4 - 6, 2007 

Long-Term Stewardship Roundtable &


Training


San Diego, California


April 11 - 13, 2007 

Globalizing Clinical Education to Protect 

the World’s Health and Environment 

University of Maryland School of Law 

Baltimore, Maryland 

April 18 - 19, 2007 

36th Annual Solid/Hazardous Waste 

Conference and Exhibition 

Gatlinburg, Tennessee 

Glossary

CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental PCB Polychlorinated biphenyl 

Response, Compensation, and 

Liability Act PCE Perchloroethane 

EPA Environmental Protection Agency PRP Potentially responsible party 

NPL National Priorities List RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act 

OSRE Office of Site Remediation 

Enforcement ROD Record of decision 

OU Operable unit TCE Trichloroethene 

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May 9 - 10, 2007 

International Exhibition & Conference for 

Energy from Waste and Biomass 

Messe Bremen, Germany 

May 21 - 24, 2007 

2007 Joint Services Environmental 

Management Conference 

Columbus, Ohio