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

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