I caused or contributed to the contamination at a brownfields site. How can I take part in this process?
If you caused or contributed, you may not obtain a brownfields agreement. But the program stands ready to help a prospective developer who desires to buy your brownfields site so that the property can transfer and the asset can be sold (so long as the property is abandoned, idled or underused and the transfer is not a real estate transfer for the purposes of continued operation of an already operating facility). Also, while this might facilitate the sale of this asset, it does not legally alleviate your past or future site liability. The brownfields program is not the program who will be making that determination of future liability for responsible parties. The program of cleanup jurisdiction will remain in that role regarding any responsible parties.
