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Brownfields News and Events Archive - 1999
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News & Events
Archives
Announcements, Press Releases, and Speeches
- Dec. 22, 1999 - EPA is accepting proposals for supplemental assistance
for the National Brownfields Assessment Pilots until Dec. 22.
Assessment pilots awarded on or before Sept. 30 1998, may apply for up to $150,0000 for continuance and expansion of their brownfields assessment efforts.
For more information, visit guidelines, and press releases.
- Brownfields National Partnership Action Agenda
To view the new Brownfields National Partnership Action Agenda accomplishments report, click here.
- Proposal Guidelines for Job Training and Development Demonstration
Pilots
The Environmental Protection Agency will begin accepting applications for Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots through March 3, 2000. The application period will close March 3, 2000 and the Agency intends to competitively select ten Pilots by May, 2000.Proposal Guidelines (PDF) (18 pp, 56K)
Federal Register Notice
Publication Number: EPA 500-F-99-291
November 1999
Volume 64, Number 220, Page 62200-62201
November 16, 1999
For more information, visit our Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots Application Information page. - EPA Expects to Fund 50 New Brownfields Pilots in 2000
EPA is accepting proposals for the National Brownfields Assessment Pilots which are each funded up to $200,000 over two years. EPA expects to select 50 National brownfields assessment pilots by April 2000. All applications must be postmarked no later than Feb. 16, 2000.
Press Announcement
October 7, 1999Federal Register Notice
Volume 64, Number 201, Page 56346-56347
Full Document
October 19, 1999
For more information, visit our Brownfields Application Information page. - First Brownfields Revolving Load Awarded
Press Release
October 7, 1999
- Prepared Statement of Mr. Tim Fields, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Legislative Hearing Legislation to Improve the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act Subcommittee
on Finance & Hazardous Materials - August 4, 1999 (Panel 1,
Witness 1)
Prepared Statement of Mr. Tim Fields
- Energy Department Announces National Initiative to Redevelop
Brownfields with Renewable Energy; Innovative New Approach Utilizes
Solar Energy To Turn Brownfields Into Brightfields - August 4,
1999
Fact Sheet - Vice President Gore Announces $11 Million to Cleanup and Redevelop
Distressed Areas
White House Press Release
June 21, 1999
More information on the Assessment Demonstration Pilots.
- Acting Deputy Administrator Peter D. Robertson's Speech to the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Turning Brownfields into Dreamfields
June 21, 1999 - Vice President Gore Announces Over $30 Million to Help Communities
Clean Up and Redevelop Brownfields: Also Awards $1.9 Million in Job
Training Grants
White House Press Release
For more information on the Revolving Loan Fund Pilots.
- The Brownfields Program Recognized By Renew America
Press Release
April 29, 1999
- EPA Announces Six Additional Pilots: Danbury, CT; Des Moines,
IA; North Stapleton, CO; Phoenix, AZ; Pomona, CA; and San Diego, CA
- Perspectives of Local Governments on Livability.
Testimony of the Honorable Paul Helmke, Mayor of Fort Wayne on behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors before the Senate Enviroment and Public Works Committee on March 17. Testimony
March 17, 1999
- EPA Announces USTfields Initiative at UST/LUST National Conference,
Daytona Beach, FL, March 15 - 17, 1999.
For more information, visit the Office of Underground Storage Tanks Web page on the USTfields Initiative.
- Vice President Gore Announces 23 Assessment Demonstration Pilots
White House Press Release
March 12, 1999More information on the Assessment Pilots.
Meetings and Deadlines
- December 6 - 8, 1999 - Brownfields '99 Conference: Alliances
for 21st Century Livability Environmental Challenges & Solutions
Dallas, Texas
- Fifth Annual Industrial Sites Recycling Conference
September 13-15, 1999, Pittsburgh PennsylvaniaMore information on the ISRC Conference
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Turning Brownfields into Dreamfields,
Washington, D.C. June 21, 1999.
The U.S. Chamber united developers, government leaders, and sports figures with the business community to address the revitalization of Brownfield areas into golf courses, soccer fields and other types of recreational and entertainment facilities.
Acting Deputy Administrator Peter D. Robertson's Speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Turning Brownfields into Dreamfields, June 21, 1999.
Go to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Brownfields page.
- The NEJAC Waste Transfer Station Working Group Meeting took place
on February 17, 1999, at the Washington Convention Center.
More information.
Reports and Documents
- Environmental Insurance and Public Sector Brownfields Programs: Factors Affecting Pursuit of Insurance as a Redevelopment Tool (PDF) (39 pp, 377K)
Northern Kentucky University/University of Louisville Document
November 1999 - Environmental Insurance Products Available for Brownfields Redevelopment (PDF) (84 pp, 221K)
Northern Kentucky University Document
November 1999 -
The Brownfields Tax Incentive: What's In It For you? (PDF) (2 pp, 171K)
Brochure (PDF version has tri-fold design)
EPA Document Number: EPA 500-F-99-165
September 1999 - Brownfields Tax Incentive Guidelines
EPA Document Number: EPA 500-F-99-164
September 1999 - Brownfields Tax Incentive Case Study: ALLIANCE ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS, INC., West Chester, Pennsylvania (PDF) (3 pp, 15K)
EPA Document Number: EPA 500-F-99-166
September 1999
- Brownfields Tax Incentive Case Study: TRIANGLE PARK, LLC, Portland, Oregon (PDF) (3 pp, 15K)
EPA Document Number: EPA 500-F-99-167
September 1999