Annual States/EPA Brownfields Programs Meeting

9:30 Check-in & Continental Breakfast

10:00 Welcome & Introductions

• EPA Staffing Updates

10:15 Presentations & Discussion: EPA’s Sustainability Emphasis

• Green remediation ASTM standard – Laurie O’Connor, EPA Region 1
• Climate change adaption – changes to Analysis of Brownfields Cleanup Alternatives (ABCA) – Jessica Dominguez, EPA Region 1

11:00 Networking Break

11:15 Presentation & Discussion: Massachusetts’ Online Brownfield Sites Database

Mike Gorski and Eva Tor, MassDEP

12:00 Lunch (provided)

12:45 Presentation & Discussion: Connecticut’s Interactive State-specific Online Adaption
of the Prepared Workbook

Mark Lewis, CT DEEP

1:30 States/EPA Roundtable – Proposed Topics:

• EPA Updates & Discussion
  • Initiatives & priorities
  • Program funding
  • 128(a) grant updates
  • Ensuring timely drawdown of existing grants
  • 104(k) grant program – announcements, potential changes
  • RLF program
  • IT related – grants.gov, ACRES, others
  • 2015 Brownfields Conference
• National Project Manager’s (NPM) Guidance FY2016
• BUILD
• Cleanup completion documentation
• Training needs – states and/or consultants; lenders for Phase 1s; others?
• Revised Phase 1 ASTM standard
• Trends in brownfields cleanup (e.g. more building demolitions? more asbestos?)
• Defining state & EPA roles & responsibilities at projects – preventing conflict or duplication
• Building-related issues/expenses – eligibility (e.g. mold, guano, historic preservation)
• Coordination of state and federal funding sources
• Others?

2:15 Networking Break

2:30 States/EPA Roundtable (continued)

4:00 Adjourn