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COVER STORY --
By Scott Broekstra, Grant Gilezan, Mark Jacobs
Congress had good intentions when, on January 11, 2002, it reformed parts of Superfund (CERCLA) by enacting the Small Business Relief and Brownfield Revitalization Act and its amendments. Congress attempted to start brownfield investment by providing funding for brownfield redevelopment and by exempting from liability new owners of contaminated sites, otherwise known as “bona-fide prospective purchasers” or “BFPPs”, as long as they satisfy the, and do not impede the performance of a response action or natural resource restoration.
The incentives to …
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Covers Story
By Scott Broekstra, Grant Gilezan, Mark Jacobs
Congress had good intentions when, on January 11, 2002, it reformed parts of Superfund (CERCLA) by enacting the Small Business Relief and Brownfield Revitalization Act and its amendments. Congress attempted to start brownfield investment by providing funding for brownfield redevelopment …
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Event: U.S. Conference of Mayors holds first
Brownfield Forum at their 1994 Annual Summer Meeting in Portland, Ore.
Action: Mayors across the country awoke to the
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Event: The first wave of specialty development companies that were dedicated to acquiring brownfields on a consistent basis began to form.
Action: The companies that entered the market included LandBank, Cherokee Industries, Brookhill, Brownfield Remediation, Hemisphere, Greenfield, Greenpark, Mars Equity and …
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Event: The insurance industry begins to issue
expanded insurance policies that cover the wide range of risks associated
with remediating and transferring environmentally impaired properties.
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Event: The state of Michigan first to adopt new
legislation (Part 201 of the Michigan Natural Resources and Environmental
Protection Act) that replaces strict liability …
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Event: The EPA issues first Memorandum of
Agreement to Illinois with additional MOA’s negotiated with the
states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Indiana. The MOA recognizes the
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Event: ASTM RBCA Standard is passed, Cherokee establishes first brownfield opportunity Fund, Brownfield News magazine goes into production and many other events take place.
Action: Rash of activity occurs on multiple fronts.
Connection: Government awakens the private sector to a new market …
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Event: In 1997 the Oxford English Dictionary was
the first dictionary to define the word brownfield.
Action: Establishes a common definition for
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Event: The EPA provides Stamford, Conn. with $500,000 to capitalized their revolving loan fund program. In November Stamford makes a loan to the first private firm to help fund cleanup.
Action: Brings attention to the problem of capitalizing cleanup and the …
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Event: Brownfield Economic Development Initiative
funding begins in 1999 supplementing EDI grants and enhancing HUD’s
Section 108 Loan Programs and Community Development Block Grants (CDBGs),
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Event: New Republican administration takes office
in unusual election; economy turns from prosperous to sluggish, corporate
accounting scandals and bankruptcies increase and America experiences major
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Congress began to look at ways to support the reuse of
contaminated properties and in each congressional session from 1993 onward
members introduced more then 25 bills from …
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In our introduction to the first part of this history we asked, “Did people make the events, or did the events make the people?” If we had answered that question at the end of Part I, we would have leaned …
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By Charlie Bartsch
State brownfield program initiatives continue to evolve and mature, in the face of turbulent economic times, even as their basic goals remain the same.
States are struggling with significant budget pressures, and trying to balance the need to do things like …
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In the Hopper
Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Jim Jeffords ( I-Vt.)
and Susan Collins (R-Maine), have introduced legislation to assist
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Renewal Magazine
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With the Washington budget showing no signs of a quick-and-easy resolution, federal brownfields programs are unlikely to get much of …
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Brownfields and crop development—for the express intent of producing foods—are concepts that have always been strange bedfellows. Mutually exclusive. An…
At this abandoned, blighted factory—consisting of 187,227 square feet in 21 different structures on 13.5 acres in the three…
PROJECT GOAL: To revitalize land that had been sitting idle for years by putting the property back into productive…
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Industry Profiles
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Jason Seyler Helena, Mont.
Hazardous Substance Brownfield Coordinator, Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality
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Eric Williams Denver, Colo.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Frontier Renewal
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Brownfield Stateside Report
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by Staff Report
In Michigan, some are predicting a better business climate for redevelopment and regulatory closure of contaminated properties thanks to a bill Michigan Governor Rick Snyder was scheduled to sign last week. The new regulations should have a positive impact on commercial real estate development and brownfields redevelopment resulting in the creation of jobs. |
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