Colorado
Petroleum Brownfields Program
Colorado Petroleum Brownfields Program
The Petroleum Brownfields Program of the Division of Oil and Public Safety (OPS) rests on the Petroleum Cleanup and Redevelopment Fund (PCRF), which OPS also calls the Redevelopment Fund. OPS says the fund was created to support the investigation and cleanup of contamination at abandoned former gas stations and other petroleum storage tank properties that have gone unaddressed for decades.
In a Phase I ESA
ASTM E1527-21 lists state brownfields sites as a standard source, and the general reading of a brownfields listing is on the Brownfields page. The OPS pages read describe a fund and its applications, not a list of sites, so this handbook does not pair the program with that record type. Three details still matter on an old gas station.
- It covers what the tank fund does not. OPS says these properties went unaddressed mainly because they were unregulated former storage tank sites that were not eligible for reimbursement from the Petroleum Storage Tank Fund. On a former station with no registration on record, check whether this program was used.
- What OPS means by a petroleum brownfield. OPS describes petroleum brownfields as often abandoned gas stations with known or perceived contamination that complicates the future sale, reuse or redevelopment of the property, and says they are found in almost every Colorado community.
- The paper it generates. OPS's page lists an eligibility application, a PCRF reimbursement application, a tank removal reimbursement application and a redevelopment and reuse outcomes worksheet. Where a property has been through the program, these are the documents to ask for.
OPS's page links an eligibility application and a Redevelopment Fund Guidebook. Neither was read for this page, so the eligibility rules are not stated here.
Under other potential state funding, OPS's page links the brownfields, voluntary cleanup, revolving loan and tax credit pages of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Those are on the Brownfields Program and Voluntary Cleanup and Redevelopment Program pages.
Where to look a site up
The pages read do not describe a public list of the properties in the program. For the release record of a former station, use the tools on the petroleum release events page. A shared mailbox on OPS's page is cdle_brownfields@state.co.us, given there for requesting a state-issued W-9.
Getting the file
OPS's Petroleum Data & File Request page links a Petroleum File & Data Request form for individual files from a facility, such as reports and letters.
Sources
Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Oil and Public Safety pages, read October 7, 2026, no modified date shown: