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WHAT'S NEW
August 27, 2009
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ASSESSMENT CLEANUP &
REDEVELOPMENT EXCHANGE SYSTEM
ACRES Training
The 2009 online ACRES training schedule is now
available. The dates and times are:
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 2 pm EST
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 2 pm EST
The Assessment, Cleanup and Redevelopment
Exchange System (ACRES) is an online database for
Brownfields grantees to electronically submit data
directly to EPA.
IEDC Annual Conference
October 4-7, 2009
Reno, NV
SiBS
AMUJASie COMMLMriKS:
2009 I6DC
ANNUAL CONFfiNC
OCTOBER 4-7
With the economy in a state of
depression, major employers are
downsizing, factories are closing, unemployment is on
the rise and retailers are struggling to survive. Economic
developers are battling in the trenches against strong
approaching forces.
Serious times call for a serious conference and lEDC's
2009 Annual Conference is the single most important
conference to attend during this global economic crisis. It
will be an unprecedented experience with highly relevant
sessions and top speakers tackling the tough issues
economic developers are facing now.
Brownfields Sustainability Pilot Reports
The Brownfields Sustainability Pilots are an EPA effort to
promote environmental sustainability at local brownfields
projects. Selected communities received technical
assistance to help them achieve greener assessment,
cleanup, and redevelopment at their brownfields.
Some of the resulting technical reports from this
assistance are now posted at:
http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/sustain pits/index.htm#r
eports
\ Real Estate Developer Ordered to Pay
1I $227K Penalty for Hazardous Waste
Violations in North Attleboro, MA
(Boston, Mass. - July 9, 2009) - A Brookline-based real
estate developer and its management company were
ordered to pay a $227,500 fine for violating federal and
state hazardous waste management requirements
during a redevelopment project in North Attleboro, Mass.
Blackinton Commons L.L.C. and CG2, Inc. were found
by a federal administrative law judge to have violated the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by
failing to properly identify and dispose of hazardous
waste during their work to redevelop the former V.H.
Blackinton & Co., Inc. jewellery manufacturing facility at
140 and 148 Commonwealth Avenue in North Attleboro,
Mass. The property was developed into a 38 unit
residential condominium complex named Blackinton
Commons.
The ruling found that Blackinton and CG2 failed to
properly identify the 212 tons of waste excavated from
the lagoons as hazardous waste and improperly sent
212 tons of hazardous waste to a landfill that was not
authorized to received such waste
It is important that developers and their consultants
thoroughly and carefully characterize waste generated
from a development site prior to disposal so that the
waste will be properly managed and disposed of without
becoming a risk to human health and the environment.
- See the complete News Release
- The decision is available for review at
www.epa.gov/oali/orders/blackinton-commons-id-
042309.pdf
- Enforcing hazardous waste reguirements in New
England (www.epa.gov/region1/enforcement/waste')
Send your Brownfields-related items for inclusion in this
newsletter to Joe Ferrari at ferrari.ioe@epa.gov.
Disclaimer: Some of the events, articles and websites listed in
this newsletter are non-EPA sponsored events and websites.
EPA is providing them for your information only and is not
responsible for the content of the websites or the information
distributed at a non-EPA listed event.
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