Center for Environmental Finance (CEF)

The information, letters, advisories, reports and recommendations listed on these pages are the products of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board, an independent board created under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, to provide independent advice and recommendations on the subject of environmental finance to the EPA Administrator. These papers reflect opinions and views of the independent EFAB, and not necessarily the views or opinions of the US EPA or any other government agency.

2002 Publications

• Expanding Lending for Non-Point Source Projects


• Public Sector Initiatives to Increase Efficiency and Overall Performance in the Water and Wastewater Industry:



2001 Publications

• Conservation Savings Increment Loans: A Proposal Concerning The State Revolving Funds


• Arbitrage Relief Would Increase Funds Available to Meet Critical Water and Sewer Funding Needs


• Letter to ORD on Small Business Innovative Research topics


• Private Sector Initiatives to Improve Efficiencies in Providing Public-Purpose Environmental Services


• Environmental State Revolving Funds: Developing a Model to Expand the Scope of the SRF


• Brownfields Tax Incentive Letter Report, a Letter to the Administrator



2000 Publications

• Removing Barriers to Investment in Environmental Infrastructure in Western Europe  - White Paper


• Proposals with Regard to the Gap Analysis


• Brownfields Tax Incentive Letter Report, a Letter to the Administrator


• Pace of Lending Issues Regarding State Revolving Funds
  

1999 Publications

• Recommendations and Final Report on Financing Opportunities for the Clean Water Action Plan


• Cooperative International Environmental Bond Guaranty Fund


• Ways the State Revolving Funds Could Assist the Better America Bonds Initiative


• Strategic Action Agenda for Fiscal Years 1999-2000




1998 Publications

• Brownfields Tax Incentive Letter Report , a Letter to the Administrator


• Comments on the OIA Draft Proposal for the NIS Environmental Bond Guaranty Program, a Letter to the Assistant Administrator for International Activities


• Funding Privately Owned Water Providers Through the Safe Drinking Water Act State Revolving Fund


• Cost-Effective Environmental Management Case Studies

1997 Publications

• State Revolving Fund: A Decade of Successful SRF Performance, 1987-1997  - Council of Infrastructure Financing Authorities, EFAB AdvisoryBoard


• Expediting Clean-Up and Redevelopment of Brownfields: Addressing the Major Barriers to Private Sector Involvement -- Real or Perceived, an Advisory


• Applications of the Cross-Collateralization Language to Various State Revolving Fund Structures


• Why Longer Loan Terms are Prudent for SRF's - Technical Report


• Improving Small Business Access to Capital for Environmental Projects, a Letter to the Administrator


• Follow-up EFAB Letter Regarding Cross-Collateralization


• Recommendations Based on EFAB's Five Brownfields Reports - Letter Report, a Letter to the Administrator


• Barriers and Incentives to Financing Brownfields Cleanup and Reuse  - Brownfields Report No. 5


• Evaluation of the Transferability Provisions in the Safe Drinking Water Act as a Means for Cross-Collateralization

1996 Publications

• Cross-Collateralization Issues Affecting the State Revolving Fund Program


• EFAB Indianapolis Meeting on Financing Brownfields Redevelopment - Brownfields Report No. 4


• Financing Strategies for Brownfields Redevelopment - Brownfields Report No. 3


• Financing Brownfields Redevelopment: Linkages to the Empowerment Zone / Enterprise Community Program - Brownfields Report No. 2


• Leveraging the Superfund: Ideas and Opportunities - Superfund Report No. 2

1995 Publications

• Increasing Flexibility for Financing the Cleanup of ContaminatedSites - Superfund Report No. 1


• Information Needs of Capital Providers in Brownfields Redevelopment - Brownfields Report No. 1

1994 Publications

• Creating a Viable Finance Program for the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission and the North American Development Bank Under the North American Free Trade Agreement


• Financing the Remediation of Hazardous Waste Sites Under the North American Free Trade Agreement


• Implementing the Environmental Finance Aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

1993

• Financing Environmental Infrastructure along the United States - Mexican Border and in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics


• Urban Environmental Policy: Steps Toward Environmental Equity, Reduced Environmental and Health Risks, and Urban Revitalization

1992 Publications

• The Clean Air Act of 1990: A Guide to Public Financing Options. This report was prepared in collaboration with the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee.


• Narrowing the Gap: Environmental Finance for the 1990s


• Public Sector Options to Finance Environmental Facilities

1991 Publications

• Private Sector Participation in the Provision of Environmental Services: Barriers and Incentives


• Incentives for Environmental Investment: Changing Behavior and Building Capital


• Small Community Financing Strategies for Environmental Facilities" (August 1991)

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