Public Comment Invited About Brownfield Cleanup Program Application for Site on Granite St., Brooklyn

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has received a Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) application from Medford Ber LLC for a site known as 99 Granite Redevelopment, site ID #C224269. This site is in the City of New York, within the County of Kings, and is located at 99-101 Granite Street, Brooklyn 11207.

A copy of the application and other relevant documents are available at the document repositories located at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Saratoga Library, 8 Thomas S. Boyland Street, Brooklyn 11233 and Brooklyn Community Board 4, 1420 Bushwick Avenue, Suite 370, Brooklyn 11207.

There are several ways to comment on BCP applications. Comments can be submitted to the site Project Manager James Drumm at NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Division of Environmental Remediation, 625 Broadway, Albany NY 12233-7016; via email at james.drumm@dec.ny.gov or by calling 518-402-9768. All comments must be submitted by February 16, 2018.

Site information can be viewed by entering the site ID noted above at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/derexternal/index.cfm?pageid=3

What is the Brownfield Cleanup Program?

New York’s Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) is designed is to encourage private-sector cleanups of brownfields and to promote their redevelopment as a means to revitalize economically blighted communities. The BCP is an alternative to “greenfield” (land not previously developed or contaminated) development and is intended to remove some of the barriers to, and provide tax incentives for, the redevelopment of brownfields. Since its inception (2003), the BCP has catalyzed the cleanup of more than 300 contaminated sites statewide and incentivized redevelopment. There are more than 350 active sites in the BCP.

Additional information on the State's Brownfield program is available at DEC’s website: http://www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/8450.html