United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
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State Incentives for Achieving Clean and Renewable
Energy Development on Contaminated Lands
Kansas
The development of clean and renewable energy on formerly used land offers many economic and environmental benefits. Combining clean and renewable energy and
contaminated land cleanup incentives can allow investors and communities to create economically viable clean and renewable energy redevelopment projects. This
document provides information about incentives in your state that can be leveraged for clean and renewable energy and development of contaminated land.
Incentives for Clean and Renewable Energy
Tax Incentives (abatements, deductions, credits, etc.)
Renewable Energy Property Tax Exemption
http://kcc.ks.gov/energy/index.htm
Exempts renewable energy equipment from property taxes. Renewable
energy includes wind, solar thermal electric, photovoltaic (PV), biomass,
hydropower, geothermal, and landfill gas resources or technologies that
are actually and regularly used predominantly to produce and generate
electricity. All personal property used to collect, refine, and treat landfill gas
or transport landfill gas from a landfill to a transmission pipeline (i.e., not
necessarily used for electricity generation) is also exempt from property
taxes.
Technical Assistance and Other Incentives
Solar Easements
www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-statutes/getStatuteFile.do?number=/58-
3801.html
Allows parties to voluntarily enter into solar easement contracts for the
purpose of ensuring adequate exposure of a solar energy system.
Quick Facts
Public Benefit Fund (PBF)
Renewable Portfolio Standard
Net Metering
Interconnection Standards
Yes D No 0
Yes D No 0
Yes D No 0
Yes D No 0
Electric Power Industry Generation by
Primary Energy Source (EIA, 2006)
Petroleum-Fired 0.1% Nuclear 20.5%
Natural Gas-Fired 4.0% Hydroelectric
Coal-Fired 73.1% Other Renewables 2.2%
Points of Contact
Renewable Energy Property Tax Exemption, Solar Easements
Kansas Corporation Commission
Jim Ploger, j.ploger@kcc.ks.gov, (785) 271-3349
Information current as of November 2008; please refer to www.dsireusa.org and the state Web sites
provided, or contact the points of contact identified above for more up to date information.
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Incentives for Development of Contaminated Land
Funding (grants, loans, bonds, etc.)
Brownfields Targeted Assessment (BTA) Program
www.kdheks.gov/brownfields/targeted_assess_prog.html
Provides funding and technical assistance to assist local units of
government, land clearance authorities, regional councils, redevelopment
agencies, tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations, and other quasi-
governmental agencies across the state in performing environmental site
assessments.
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan and Grant Fund
(BCRLGF)
www.kdheks.gov/remedial/articles/article_brownfield.html
Provides low-interest loans and grants to clean up contaminated properties
owned by municipalities or nonprofit organizations. Cleanups must be
conducted through KDHE's Voluntary Cleanup Program for all properties
qualifying for BCRLGF funding.
Kansas Agricultural Remediation Fund (KARF)
http://karb. org/default. htm
Provides funding to assist in the investigation and remediation of qualifying
properties with agriculture-related contaminants. Maximum reimbursement
amount for those who have been assessed a fee is $200,000. For those
who have not paid an assessment fee or for pesticide dealers who have
paid an assessment, maximum reimbursement amount is $10,000.
Limitations on Liability
Voluntary Cleanup and Property Remediation Program -
No Further Action (NFA)
www.kdheks.gov/remedial/vcp/index.html
Grants an NFA determination, which provides protection from potential
future liabilities to developers and buyers who perform successful cleanups
of contaminated properties according to established criteria.
Quick Facts
Limitations on Liability Yes 0 No D
Number of State-Tracked Contaminated Properties: 499
Includes 163 sites issued a No Further Action letter and 336 currently active sites
in the Voluntary Cleanup and Property Redevelopment Program
Number of EPA CERCLIS Sites: 283
Sites identified for potential investigation under the federal Superfund Program
Number of EPA Brownfields Properties: 69
Properties being funded or addressed under the EPA Brownfields Program
There may be some overlap among the categories listed and sites listed may not
represent all potentially contaminated sites in Kansas.
Information current as of November 2008; please refer to
www.epa.gov/brownfields/pubs/st_res_prog_report.htm and the state Web sites provided,
or contact the points of contact identified above for more up to date information.
Points of Contact
Kansas Department of Health and Environment, n/n/n/.M?e/(s.gov/
BTA Program, BCRLGF,
Doug Doubek, ddoubek@kdhe.state.ks.us, (785) 291-3246
NFA, Jeff Poyer, jpoyer@kdhe.state.ks.us, (785) 291-3244
KARF
Kansas Agricultural Remediation Board, karb.org/default.htm
Mary Jane Stankiewicz, mjs@karb.org, (785) 440-0356
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