Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Tennessee Brownfield Toolbox

In 2009, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) created the Brownfields Redevelopment Toolbox in conjunction with the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO) State Response Program and Brownfields Operation Task Force

The purpose of the Toolbox is to explain the Brownfields process in straightforward terms, and provide rural and smaller city governments/entities/communities with a systematic, start-to-finish, guide to Brownfields redevelopment. The Toolbox identifies five (5) steps in the Brownfields renewal process. The Toolbox provides a brief summary of each step, answers a series of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), and lists and summarizes available state and federal tools and incentives local governments may want to utilize in pursuing redevelopment of a Brownfield site in their community. A list of questions is presented at the end of Steps 1 through 3; based on the answers, the reader/user is directed to the appropriate next step for that project.

Here's a LINK.