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WHAT'S NEW
August 18, 2008
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New England
In This Issue
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>	Additional Cleanup Grants Awarded
>	Brownfields 2009 Conference
>	Upcoming Tips-and-Tricks Sessions
>	Changes in EPA Brownfields Guidelines
>	Sustainability Assistance Awards
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>	RLF Supplemental Grants
>	Green Remediation Primer
>	New England States Brownfieids Websites
>	Stormwater Management in Dense Urban Areas
>	Federal Brownfields Tax Incentives
>	Online Grant Writing Workshop	


Fairfield Hills Complex, Newtown, CT
Additional Cleanup Grants Awarded
A second round of cleanup grant awards was
announced on July 25, 2008, and New England has
received almost half of the nationwide awards. Included
in New England are:
Borough of Naugatuck, CT (for Parcel C South);
Town of Newtown, CT (for Fairfield Hills Complex);
City of Boston, MA (for 191 Bowdoin Street);
City of Boston, MA (for Modern Electroplating/Enam);
City of Boston, MA (for Lewis Chemical Property);
City of Fitch burg, MA (for Central Steam Plant);
City of Lowell, MA (for 86 Fay Street); and
Town ofWrentham, MA (for Marra Property).
Congratulations to all of the new recipients!
Brownfields 2009
Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana will be
the site for the next National
Brownfields Conference, which
will be from November 16-18,
2009 at the Ernest N. Morial
Convention Center. Plan ahead!
Upcoming Tips-and-Tricks Sessions
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The half-day outreach sessions for applying for next
year's grants are coming up soon!
The grant guidelines are changing drastically this year,
so these "how-to's" and "tips-and-tricks" are more
important than ever! These are for anyone planning on
applying for brownfieids funding, and the sessions are
put on by the EPA New England Brownfields Section.
Three meetings from 9:00am to 12:00pm are planned to
give prospective Brownfields grant applicants some of
the "tips-and-tricks" to promote successful grant writing.
>	Monday September 8, 2008 at the Sheraton
Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, NH!
>	Tuesday September 9, 2008 at the Regency
Inn & Conference Center in Westford, MA!
>	Tuesday September 16, 2008 at Rensselaer
in Hartford, CT!
Webinar sessions will also be offered on Thursday
September 18, 2008, but nothing beats the real thing!
Don't wait! See attached registration form!
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Changes in EPA Brownfields
Guidelines
EPA modified some key areas of its
Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup (ARC)
Grant Proposal Guidelines to improve applicants'
potential for success through:
•	New opportunities for assessment applicants;
•	Streamlined guidelines; and
•	New proposal requirements, designed to help ensure
grantee success.
Visit this site for details of the key guideline changes.
EPA plans to issue a request for proposals (RFP) in late
summer of 2008 for 2009 competitive EPA Brownfields
grants.
Sustainability Assistance Awards
New England has received 2 of the 16 nationwide
awards just announced on August 1, 2008. The New
England recipients of Technical Assistance for
Brownfields Sustainability Pilots are:
Urban Edge, Roxbury, MA (for Jackson Square); and
Burlington Community and Economic Development
Office, Burlington, VT(for the Moran Center).
Good work!
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RLF Supplemental Grants
EPA announced on June 12,
2008 the recipients of a new
round of supplemental cleanup
Revolving Loan Fund (RLF)
awards for Brownfields, with the
following from New England:
YMCA, Bath, ME
City of Bridgeport, CT;
City of Bath, ME;
City of Brewer, ME; and the
NH Department of Environmental Services.
Click to see the >ress release.
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Green Remediation Primer
The new Green Remediation Primer, a publication from
EPA's Brownfields and Land Revitalization Technology
Support Center (BTSC), is now available electronically at
this web site. More info about EPA's BTSC can be
found here.
Green remediation is the practice of considering all
environmental effects of cleanup actions and
incorporating strategies to maximize the net
environmental effects of those actions. The sustainable
practices emphasize the need to more closely evaluate
core elements of a cleanup project such as energy
requirements and air emissions.
New England States
Brownfields Websites
Want a quick link to the
Brownfields web sites of the
various New England state
governments, to see what's
happening there? Click CT. MA.
ME. NH. Ri, or VI!
Stormwater
Management in
Dense Urban Areas
The EPA has
introduced two new
publications on the
subject: Design
Principles for
Stormwater
Management on Compacted. Contaminated Soils in
Dense Urban Areas: and Case Studies for the same.
Check them out!
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Federal Brownfields Tax Incentive
This note responds to inquiries regarding whether the
Federal Brownfields Tax Incentive has been extended.
While there have been a number of bills introduced in
Congress proposing to extend the Brownfields Tax
Incentive, so far, none of the bills has been enacted into
law. The 110th Congress has recessed prior to acting on
the latest bill, the "Jobs, Energy, Families, and Disaster
Relief Act of 2008 (S. 3335)", which included
extending the Federal Brownfields Tax Incentive. The
bill provides a one-year extension of the current
brownfield tax incentive till December 31, 2008,
retroactively from when it expired on December 31,
2007.
For more information about the Federal Brownfields Tax
Incentive, go to http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
Online Grant Writing Workshop
it's not to late to plan on participating in an interactive
online workshop hosted by EPA Region 8, on
September 15, 2008 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm EDT.
This free, internet-based grant writing workshop is
designed to help applicants tap into resources about:
Basics of brownfields
New grant guidelines
Helpful hints on writing effective proposals
Answers to your questions
Visit the Workshop Registration Link at:
http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/r8bfguidelines/


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Disclaimer: Some of the events, articles and websites listed in
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EPA New England Brownfields
Grant Outreach Meetings
Registration Form
To register, please forward your completed form to RegionlBrownfields@sra.com or fax it to
Rachel Olfato at (703) 284-1383.
Please select which meeting you plan on attending:
~	September 8, 2008 in Portsmouth, NH (registration deadline is August 29)
~	September 9, 2008 in Westford, MA (registration deadline is August 29)
~	September 16, 2008 in Hartford, CT (registration deadline is September 8)
Please complete the information below:
Name:
Title:
Organization:
Street Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Telephone:
E-mail:
For further registration information, please contact Rachel Olfato via e-mail at
RegionlBrownfields@sra.com or phone at (703) 284-7369.
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