Overview

Enabling Statutes:  C.G.S. 32-769

Eligibility Criteria:

DECD can approve up to 32 applications into the Program in any year. 

1. Property must satisfy the brownfield definition as per C.G.S Section 32-760 and there should be a release of a regulated substance in an amount that is in excess of the remediation standards.
2. Applicant must meet the definition of a bona fide prospective purchaser, innocent landowner or contiguous property owner.
3. Application and proposed redevelopment must satisfy state-wide economic and community development portfolio factors (see below).
4. Applicant has not established, created or maintained a source of pollution and is not responsible for any pollution on the property.
5. Applicant does not have any affiliation to those responsible for the pollution except where the Applicant has leased the property for less than five (5) years as a path to property acquisition.
6. Applicant/Property is not subject to existing enforcement or consent orders by DEEP or the U.S. EPA.
7. Property is not on Superfund National Priority List or the CT Superfund Priority List.
8. Property is not subject to corrective action by the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

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