RE-Powering America's Lands

Redevelopment Tools:

• Liability Relief Resources:
  • Brownfields Liability Relief Act
    
    This Act provides certain relief for small businesses from liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, and to amend such Act to promote the cleanup and reuse of brownfields, to provide financial assistance for brownfields revitalization, to enhance State response programs, and for other purposes.
  • Enforcement Tools that Address Liability Concerns
    
    EPA has developed a number of policies and tools that address landowner liability concerns so that protective cleanups and revitalization can take place.
  • Lender Liability Fact Sheet (PDF) (2 pp, 30K, About PDF)
    
    Provides answers to frequently asked questions regarding Superfund, Brownfields and lender liability.
  • The Revitalization Handbook
    
    "Revitalizing Contaminated Sites: Addressing Liability Concerns (The Revitalization Handbook)" addresses environmental cleanup liability risks associated with the revitalization of contaminated property or sites.
  • Top 10 Questions to Ask When Buying a Superfund Site (PDF) (12 pp, 771K, About PDF)
    
    Provides answers to some of the question that a prospective purchaser may have when considering whether to purchase property as a privately owned Superfund site.
• Mine Scarred Lands (MSL) Initiative Tool Kit
  
  The Mine-Scarred Lands (MSL) Initiative is an effort to improve coordination and collaboration among federal agencies on the cleanup and redevelopment of both hard rock and coal mine-scarred lands.

For further information regarding RE-Powering America's Land: Renewable Energy on Contaminated Lands and Mining Sites, please contact: cleanenergy@epa.gov