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Nuts & Bolts of Redeveloping Brownfields (and Other Contaminated Properties) for Local Government
AGENDA
Nuts & Bolts of Redeveloping Brownfields (and
Other Contaminated Properties) for Local Government
The Discovery Center, 4750 Troost Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri
Day 1: Getting Started (Monday, July 21, 2008)
8:20-8:30 Registration Speaker Bios (PDF): (10 pp, 119KB About PDF)
8:30-8:40 Welcome: Steve Kovac, USEPA, Region 7
8:40-9:40 Course Overview & Introductions: David Doyle, USEPA, Region 7 & Eugene Goldfarb, Great Lakes Environmental Planning (GLEP)
9:40-10:30 (1) A Legacy of Economic Development (PDF): (23 pp, 702KB About PDF) Shawn Grindstaff, The
Forrester Group
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-11:45 (2) Site Identification Strategies (PDF): (19 pp, 1MB About PDF) Olivia Hough, City of Springfield, Missouri
11:45-1:15 LUNCH (3) Lunch speaker: Site Safety (PDF): (5 pp, 192KB About PDF) Manny Schmaedick, USEPA, Region 7
1:15-2:00 (4) Site Identification Model Case Study (PDF): (26 pp, 2MB About PDF) Chad Howell, St. Louis Development Corporation
2:00-3:00 (5) Site Identification Exercise: Eugene Goldfarb, Great Lakes Environmental Planning
3:00-3:15 BREAK
3:15-4:30 (6) Economics of Brownfield Redevelopment: What to Consider Up-Front (PDF): (71 pp, 4MB About PDF) Andrew Bracker, Director, Brownfields Program, Kansas City, MO
5:15-7:00 Mixer: McCoy’s Public House, 4057 Pennsylvania Ave, KCMO
Day 2: Site Assessment Tools (Tuesday, July 22, 2008)
8:30-9:30 (7) Environmental Site Assessments (PDF): (34 pp, 747MB About PDF) Chad Howell, St. Louis Development Corporation
9:30-10:00 (8) Environmental Public Health Approach to Brownfield Revitalization (PDF): (23 pp, 1.5MB About PDF) Jill Shugart, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
10:00-10:30 (9) Case Study (PDF): (16 pp, 1MB About PDF) Emmetsburg, Iowa – Mel Pins, Iowa DNR
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-11:15 (10) Underground Tanks (PDF): (22 pp, 507KB About PDF) Wilfredo Rosado-Chaparro, USEPA, Region 7
11:15-12:30 (11) State Programs Panel: Mel Pins, Iowa DNR (PDF): (5 pp, 273KB About PDF) Charlene Sunderman, Nebraska DEQ (PDF): (10 pp, 441KB About PDF); Christine O’Keefe, Missouri DNR (PDF): (35 pp, 1MB About PDF); Doug Doubeck, Kansas DHE (PDF): (22 pp, 1.5MB About PDF)
12:30-1:30 LUNCH (Question and Answer Period with State Programs Panel)
1:30-2:30 (12) Green Building Tour EPA Science and Technology Center
2:30-4:30 (13) Site Investigation Tour/Exercise: Eugene Goldfarb, GLEP
Day 3: Redevelop to Benefit the Community (Wednesday, July 23, 2008)
8:30-9:30 (14) Site Characterization Exercise: Eugene Goldfarb, GLEP
9:30-10:15 (15) Building Sustainable Rural Communities (PDF): (69 pp, 3.5MB About PDF) Carlton Eley, USEPA Washington, D.C.
10:15-10:30 BREAK
10:30-11:00 (16) Working with an Environmental Consultant (PDF): (13 pp, 72KB About PDF) Jim Halverson, Howard R. Green and Associates
11:00-11:45 (17) Community Development & Planning: Context for Brownfield Redevelopment (PDF): (73 pp, 9MB About PDF) Dan Holderness, City of Coralville, Iowa
11:45-1:15 LUNCH (Tour of Discovery Center)
1:15-1:45 (18) A Developer's View (PDF): (7 pp, 1.5MB About PDF) George Birt, Downtown Developers, Kansas City, Missouri
1:45-2:15 (19) Sustainable Management Approaches and Revitalization Tools – electronic (SMARTe): (19 pp, 3MB About PDF) Terrie Boguski, Kansas State University TAB (PDF): (9 pp, 433KB About PDF)
2:15-2:30 BREAK
2:30-3:15 (20) Historic Preservation Incentives (PDF): (30 pp, 629KB About PDF) Katrina Ringler, Kansas State Historical Society
3:15-4:00 (21) Environmental Justice & Citizen Participation (PDF): (24 pp, 749KB About PDF) Althea Moses, USEPA, Region 7
4:00-4:30 (22) Financing Case Study (PDF): (27 pp, 498KB About PDF) Michelle Brady, City of Sioux City, Iowa
Day 4: Financial Resources (Thursday, July 24, 2008)
8:15-8:30 (23) Financial Resources Overview (PDF): (12 pp, 211KB About PDF) Charlie Bartsch, ICF Consulting
8:30-9:30 (24) Federal Programs: Steve Tharman, Business and Community Programs Specialist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development (PDF); ( pp, B About PDF) Mark Werthmann, U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration; (8 pp, 272KB About PDF) Susan Klein, Brownfields Coordinator, Region 7, US EPA (PDF) (29 pp, 1.6MB About PDF),
9:30-10:00 (25) Private Financing (PDF): (33 pp, 655KB About PDF) Charlie Bartsch, ICF Consulting
10:00-10:15 BREAK
10:15-12:00 (26) State and Local Sources of Funding (PDF): (42 pp, 1MB About PDF) Charlie Bartsch, ICF Consulting, David Koch, Terracon Consultants, Inc.
12:00-1:30 LUNCH (Panel Addresses Specific Community Funding Situation(s))
1:30-4:30 (27) Pro Forma Exercise (PDF): (22 pp, 888KB About PDF) Eugene Goldfarb, Great Lakes Environmental Planning; Charlie Bartsch, ICF Consulting; David Koch, Terracon Consultants, Inc.
Day 5: Tying It All Together (Friday, July 25, 2008)
8:30-9:30 (28) Legal Deal Stoppers & How to Prevent Them (PDF): (4 pp, 52KB About PDF) Bob Richards, Office of Regional Counsel, USEPA, Region 7
9:30-10:15 (29) Final Case Study (PDF): (17 pp, 628KB About PDF) Charlie Bartsch, ICF Consulting
10:15-10:30 BREAK
10:30-11:00 (30) Redevelopment Plan Exercise: final prep for presentations
11:00-12:00 Presentation of Cases
12:00-12:15 Wrap-Up
