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States/Tribes/EPA Brownfields Programs Winter Meeting

Thursday February 7
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
EPA Region 1 Laboratory in Chelmsford, MA

Draft Agenda

9:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:45 Welcome and Introductions
10:00 Program Updates from EPA - Diane Kelley, EPA Region 1
   - Petroleum site eligibility determinations - guidelines for states
   - EPA HQ emphasis on measurement - what this might mean for states
   - Funding and workplans
   - Q&A
10:30 Program Updates from States - Roundtable
   - State priority issues
   - State-specific "All Grantee" meetings - experiences
   - the use of RLF by the states - experiences
   - additional funding sources/options are states exploring (e.g. tax increment financing districts, bonding for infrastructure improvements, etc.)?
   - smart growth incentives - ideas/experiences
12:00 Lunch (provided)
1:00 Greener Cleanups - Ed Chu, EPA HQ Center for Program Analysis
2:15 Break
2:30 Massachusetts' Brownfields Partners Program - Catherine Finneran, MA DEP
Includes representatives from various parts of state government, HUD, EPA
   - background on how it formed and how it works
   - discuss the possibility of replication in other states
3:15 Update on NEWMOA waste site cleanup projects and plans for upcoming trainings - Jennifer Griffith, NEWMOA
3:30 Adjourn


 

 

 

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