NORWICH - Responding to interest expressed by an anonymous enterprise in a parcel at the county’s Earl B. Clark Industrial Park in North Norwich, Chenango County Industrial Development Agency President Maureen Carpenter received approval from her board Wednesday to rid the area of excess rubble and have the property appraised.

“We need to clean it up if we are going to market it,” she said.

“It’s been there a long while,” IDA Chairman Hugh Kearney commented. “It’s time to get it cleaned up.”

The park has acreage available for the construction of incubator facilities. These facilities offer IDA benefits such as: below market lease rates, sales tax exemption, and is located in the Greater Norwich Empire Zone. Rivercraft Search and Rescue Airboats and American Blade Corporation are currently tenants.

Carpenter received the go ahead to get quotes for the debris removal. Some of it might involve asbestos, she said. The next step would be to revisit an environmental study completed in 2000. “We need to focus on what types of businesses we might want in there,” she said.