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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, TheForrester 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 | (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, 747KB About PDF) Chad Howell, St. Louis Development Corporation |
| 9:30-10:00 | (8) | Environmental Public Health Approach to Brownfield Revitalization: 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 TourEPA 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 ofAgriculture, Rural Development (PDF); (8 pp, 272KB 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, TerraconConsultants, 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 |
