Brownfields What's New October 8, 2008


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WHAT'S NEW
October 8, 2008
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In This Issue
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>	'09 Assessment, Cleanup & RLF Applications
>	'09 Job Training Applications
>	Green Building on Brownfields
>	"TAB EZ"
>	www.energysavers.gov
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>	Green Remediation: Opening the Door to Field Use
>	Extension of Brownfields Tax incentive
>	Brownfields 2009 Conference
>	New England States Brownfields Websites
'09 Assessment, Cleanup & RLF
Applications
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Only one more month - The FY09 US
EPA Brownfields Assessment,
Cleanup and RLF Guidelines are
posted on-line, and all applications
must be postmarked by November 14,
2008. Good Luck to all. Hit this link for
the Guidelines; hit here for Power Point Presentations.
Fact Sheets. FAQ's and Other Information.
And - Although the proposal deadline for EPA's
Brownfields Assessment, Cleanup & RLF Grants is
quickly approaching, you can still join us for a
National conversation on the new guidelines! This
National outreach session will review the evaluation
criteria and selection process for the grants, but will
dedicate most of the time to Questions and Answers
from applicants. EPA encourages participants to think of
questions they have ahead of time and come prepared
to contribute to the discussion! Registration is free.
Title: The Brownfields Assessment, RLF and Cleanup
Grant Proposal Guidelines: A National Q&A Session
Date: October 16, 2008 2:00pm - 4:00pm Eastern
Sponsored By: U.S. EPA Headquarters Office of
Brownfields and Land Revitalization
To Register please visit:
http://www. cl u- i n. o rg/co nf/t io/bfq a/
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'09 Job Training Applications
Time is almost up - The FY0S US EPA
Brownfields Job Training Guidelines
are posted on-line, and all
applications must be postmarked by
October 15, 2008. Good Luck to all.
Hit this link for the Guidelines; hit here
for Power Point Presentations. FAQ's,
Fact Sheets and Other Information.
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Green Building on Brownfields
If you'd like to download a copy of the PowerPoint
presentation that was given by Charlie Bartsch as a
webinaron September 18, 2008, subject: Green
Building on Brownfields - Obstacles and
Opportunities, please click this link. Participants report
that it is a well-done presentation covering the basics of
green building and funding, in relationship to the
challenges of contaminated properties.
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"TAB EZ" - Kansas State University, one of EPA's
TAB grantees, has developed a software tool called
"TAB EZ" that can assist communities in putting together
their assessment and cleanup proposals. TAB EZ is
available free of costs to everyone nationwide at the
following URL: http://www.tabez.org/
While EPA is not endorsing this tool, we want to make
sure that communities know about its availability.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
ENERGY
Energy Efficiency &
Renewable Energy
www.energysavers.gov
You might want to check out the following website to
help save money staying warm this winter. A lot of it is
pretty much common knowledge now, but you might find
a couple of helpful energy savers in there.
http://www.energysavers.gov/
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Green Remediation:
Opening the Door to Field
Use
This is the first out of three
sessions being offered by EPA
CLU-IN on Green Remediation.
Session A (Introduction and Carbon Calculus: A
RCRA Case Study) - November 24, 2008. In July, EPA
held its annual National Association of Remedial Project
Managers meeting in Portland, OR and one of our most
attended sessions was on Green Remediation (GR).
Because of its success, members of EPA's Technical
Support Project, led by the Engineering Forum, have
taken this full-day session and are bringing back a
number of the same talks as online seminars this fall and
winter. There will be three sessions, each 1.5 hours
long. EPA's definition of Green Remediation includes
the practice of considering the environmental effects of a
remediation strategy (i.e., the remedy selected and the
implementation approach) early in the process, and
incorporating options to maximize the net environmental
benefit of the cleanup action. Some practices are quite
"mature," such as construction site best management
practices including stormwater runoff management and
construction and demolition (C&D) debris recycling.
Others are stili emerging, including the use of renewable
energy sources such as wind and solar to power
remedial systems. Over the three sessions, the online
training will introduce you to the key technical, policy,
and application aspects of GR. For more information on
this and other sessions, and to register, hit
http://clu-in.org/studio .
Extension of Brownfields
Tax Incentives
It's a big bill - but the website
www.senate.gov reports that the
financial industry bailout bill
which is H.R. 1424, which was
just passed and signed as the
"Emergency Economic
Stabilization Act of 2008", includes a Brownfields-related
Section. It is in Division C. Title III, and it is apparently
called Section 318, Expensing of environmental
remediation costs. Check it out for yourself, but it
looks like Section 198 of the IRS Code has been
extended through December 31, 2009, as it pertains to
expenditures after December 31, 2007.
For more general information about the Federal
Brownfields Tax Incentive (but not the new law), go to
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
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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!
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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!
Send your Brownfields-related items for inclusion in this
newsletter to Steve Chase at chase.steve@epa.gov.
Disclaimer: Some of the events, articles arid 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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