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  • 04 Jan 2024 11:19 AM | Michael Lazo (Administrator)

    Here is an Environmental Law Alert from one of BCONE’s annual sponsors, Pullman & Comley.

    Is Connecticut’s Transfer Act Going Away Anytime Soon? No, But Progress Is Being Made

    The Connecticut General Assembly passed Public Act 20-09 in the fall of 2020 with the promise that the Connecticut Transfer Act would be abolished in favor of a released-based, rather than a transaction-based, remediation program.  Under Public Act 20-09’s terms, once the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) adopts release-based regulations pursuant to section 22a-134tt of the General Statutes, the Transfer Act will cease to apply to future transactions in Connecticut; only those  sites  already in the Transfer Act program will need to be remediated in accordance with the Transfer Act’s requirements.

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  • 03 Jan 2024 11:07 AM | Michael Lazo (Administrator)

    Pittsburgh, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today announced that the Beaver County Environmental Mitigation Community Fund steering committee has finalized a protocol implementation plan, which establishes the advisory board’s role in executing projects.

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  • 03 Jan 2024 11:05 AM | Michael Lazo (Administrator)

    EPA to hold hybrid public hearing on January 10 in Woodstock, Conn.

    January 3, 2024

    Contact Information

    Mikayla Rumph (rumph.mikayla@epa.gov)

    (617) 918-1016

    WOODSTOCK, CONN. (Jan. 3, 2024) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be holding a hybrid public hearing on the amended Proposed Plan for the cleanup of the Linemaster Switch Corp. Superfund Site in Woodstock, Conn on January 10, 2024.

    Public Hearing: January 10, 2024, 7:00 p.m. until all comments are heard.

    In-person: Woodstock Middle School Cafeteria, 147B Route 169, Woodstock, CT 06281

    Virtually: epa.gov/superfund/linemaster.

    During the public hearing, EPA will be accepting oral comments on the preferred remedial alternative identified in the Proposed Plan. No new information will be presented at the hearing. The Proposed Plan presents EPA's proposed changes to the current (ongoing) remedy for the site.

    In a 1993 Record of Decision, EPA selected a cleanup plan for the entire site. This remedy required the construction and operation of a groundwater and soil vapor extraction system within the "source area," as well as the extraction and treatment of contaminated groundwater outside the source area (i.e., downgradient areas). Despite 25 years of active site remediation, and evidence that the concentration of contaminants is declining, significant impacts to the soil and groundwater remain. As a result, EPA is proposing to amend the 1993 Record of Decision. The proposed revised remedy includes additional treatment of contaminated soil, as well as modifying the existing groundwater extraction and treatment system. The proposed amended remedy is estimated to cost approximately $11.4 million and is estimated to take approximately one to two years to design and implement.

    EPA will be accepting public comments on the Proposed Plan until midnight January 12, 2024. EPA will formally respond to all comments, both written and oral, received during the comment period in a responsiveness summary which will be part of the formal record. EPA will then release its Amended Record of Decision. 

    More Information on the Public Comment Opportunity:

    EPA's Proposed Plan for Linemaster Site, its Administrative Record File, as well as other site related documents and other technical documents related to the site, are available for review online at EPA's webpage: epa.gov/superfund/linemaster.

    The Woodstock Town Hall can be used as an access point for EPA's Linemaster Switch Corp. Superfund Site webpage.

    EPA's Records Center is located within EPA's regional office at 5 Post Office Square in Boston, Mass. EPA's Records Center is open Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. To make an appointment to view the records at EPA's regional office, please call at (617) 918-1440.

    If you would like a copy of the Proposed Plan mailed to you, contact Charlotte Gray at gray.charlotte@epa.gov or (617) 918-1243.

    Submit your comments during the 30-day public comment period on the Proposed Plan no later than midnight January 12, 2024 by mail, hand delivery/courier, or email to:

    John Bryant, Remedial Project Manager

    Linemaster Switch Corp. Superfund Site

    U.S. EPA New England

    5 Post Office Square, Suite 100

    Mail Code: 7-MI

    Boston, MA 02109

    Email: Bryant.John@epa.gov

    Phone: (617) 918-1375

    The public hearing on January 10, 2024 is another opportunity for the public to comment on the proposed amended remedy. All verbal comments will be recorded and become part of the official record.

    If you have questions on the comment period, please contact:

    Charlotte Gray, EPA Community Involvement Coordinator, by email at Gray.Charlotte@epa.gov or by phone at (617) 918-1243.

    Background

    The 92-acre Linemaster Switch Corp. Superfund Site houses a former manufacturing facility in Woodstock, Conn. that produced electrical and pneumatic foot switches and wiring harnesses. As part of the manufacturing operations, several chemicals were used at the site including trichloroethene (TCE). Due to the remaining contamination from the previous manufacturing operations, the site was placed on the Superfund National Priorities List in February of 1990. A cleanup plan for the site was selected in a 1993 Record of Decision. Since then, cleanup activities have included the installation of soil and groundwater treatment systems.

    More information

    Linemaster Switch Corp. Superfund Site Profile Page

  • 02 Jan 2024 11:03 AM | Michael Lazo (Administrator)

    The office of Gov. Ned Lamont said late Tuesday that he would on Wednesday announce plans to redevelop the site of the former New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum and construct a 277,435-square-foot “Class A life sciences and tech office building” there.

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  • 29 Dec 2023 2:59 PM | Michael Lazo (Administrator)

    Possibly contaminated sites in four eastern Connecticut towns are part of a statewide initiative to clean up those sites so that they can be reused for other purposes.

    Governor Ned Lamont’s Office announced on Dec. 18 that $7.2 million in grants statewide would be distributed to help the remediation and assessment of 713 acres of blighted properties in nine towns, including the four eastern Connecticut towns of Griswold, Sprague, Putnam and Lisbon, according to the press release.

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  • 28 Dec 2023 3:01 PM | Michael Lazo (Administrator)

    Last week, as part of President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a $50 million Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant for the Bronx’s Fordham University to serve as a Regional Grantmaker.

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  • 19 Dec 2023 3:11 PM | Michael Lazo (Administrator)

    By Craig S. Semon, Worcester Telegram & Gazette (KA)

    If you're driving along Interstate 190 and glance at the Saint-Gobain industrial campus in the Greendale section of the city, you may notice that some of the long-standing factory buildings that used to be the home of the old Norton Co. are being demolished.

    Not only are the buildings being leveled, the demolition project is also part of the largest brownfield reclamation project ever in Massachusetts and quite possibly New England, according to Worcester Business Development Corp. President Craig L. Blais.

    Right now, just for the reclamation, just for the cleanup and the demolition and all the infrastructure, we're over $50 million just to get this site ready,? Blais said.  ?And then this would be upward of $500 million once it's all redeveloped. So this is a big deal.?

    For the entire article, see

    https://www.telegram.com/story/business/real-estate/2023/12/16/former-norton-co-site-under-demolition-site-to-be-redeveloped/71933866007/

  • 19 Dec 2023 3:02 PM | Michael Lazo (Administrator)

    On December 19, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul signed S.5512 / A. 6115, known as the “Lead Pipe Right to Know Act.” 

    Lead is a poisonous heavy metal that causes significant adverse health effects, particularly in children, and experts agree that there is no safe level of lead exposure. You can’t see, smell, or taste lead, which is why it is important to know about whether lead may be present in your drinking water.

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  • 18 Dec 2023 3:07 PM | Michael Lazo (Administrator)

    Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he has approved the release of $7.2 million in state grants that will be used to support the remediation and assessment of blighted properties in nine municipalities across Connecticut, consisting of 713 acres of land. The funds will support these communities with investigating and cleaning up these properties so they can be redeveloped and put back into productive use to support economic growth.

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  • 18 Dec 2023 3:06 PM | Michael Lazo (Administrator)

    (HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he has approved the release of $7.2 million in state grants that will be used to support the remediation and assessment of blighted properties in nine municipalities across Connecticut, consisting of 713 acres of land. The funds will support these communities with investigating and cleaning up these properties so they can be redeveloped and put back into productive use to support economic growth.

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