April 24, 2015 – Partnering for Prepared: CTDEEP’s Web-Based Tool for Brownfield Reuse

Free Course

i.e. the Sustainability Series

Presented By

Kathy Castagna, Brownfields Project Officer at U.S. EPA Region 1
Mark Lewis, Brownfields Coordinator for the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection
Jim Rocco, Risk Management Consultant at Vita Nuova LLC

Description

In 2014, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the U.S. EPA Region 1, and consultant Vita Nuova LLC began the process of web-enabling the USEPA PREPARED Workbook. PREPARED is the Process for Risk Evaluation, Property Analysis, And Reuse Decisions. It is a risk management framework for evaluating various actions a local government (or others) might take to bring about a desired reuse of a brownfield property. After a year of hard work, the CT DEEP’s PREPARED Municipal Workbook Web-Portal is live and ready.

This webinar will highlight the collaboration between the CT DEEP and EPA to marry the PREPARED process with Connecticut specific information and resources to provide a valuable tool to municipalities and others dealing with Brownfield properties in the state. The webinar will walk through the website and the 9 steps of the PREPARED process providing an overview of each step, the PREPARED worksheets, and web-accessible resources including Connecticut cleanup programs, environmental land use restrictions, liability protection programs, funding sources, and property reuse assessment information.  The CT DEEP PREPARED Web-Portal will help municipalities and others dealing with Brownfield properties increase the success of their redevelopment projects by:

•   Identifying, clarifying, and gaining support for brownfield reuse goals and objectives,
•   Identifying and assessing options for involvement in a particular brownfield property,
•   Evaluating the risks associated with different levels of involvement, and
•   Formulating strategies for eliminating or minimizing those risks.

This website can also be a valuable resource to municipalities and others dealing with Brownfield properties outside of the state of Connecticut.