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Brownfield Reports and Advisories:

• Brownfields Tax Incentive Letter Report, a Letter to the Administrator (PDF)  (April 2001)

• Brownfields Tax Incentive Letter Report, a Letter to the Administrator  (March 2000)

• Brownfields Tax Incentive Letter Report, a Letter to the Administrator  (October 1998)

• Expediting Clean-Up and Redevelopment of Brownfields: Addressing the Major Barriers to Private Sector Involvement -- Real or Perceived , an Advisory (December 1997)

• Recommendations Based on EFAB's Five Brownfields Reports - Letter Report , a Letter to the Administrator (March 1997)

• Barriers and Incentives to Financing Brownfields Cleanup and Reuse  - Brownfields Report No. 5 (February 1997)

• EFAB Indianapolis Meeting on Financing Brownfields Redevelopment &nbsp-  Brownfields Report No. 4  (March 1996)

• Financing Strategies for Brownfields Redevelopment  -  Brownfields Report No. 3 (March 1996)

• Financing Brownfields Redevelopment: Linkages to the Empowerment Zone / Enterprise Community Program  - Brownfields Report No. 2 (March 1996)

• Information Needs of Capital Providers in Brownfields Redevelopment  - Brownfields Report No. 1  (September 1995)

Clean Water Action Plan Reports:

• Recommendations and Final Report on Financing Opportunities for the Clean Water Action Plan  (PDF)  (July 1999)

GAP Analysis:

• Proposals with Regard to the Gap Analysis  (May 2000)

State Revolving Fund Reports:

• EFAB's "Coordination of USEPA/SRF and USDA/RUS Water and Sewer Loan Assistance:" 1) Cover letter, 2) Report.(PDFs) (August 2003) 

• "Expanding Lending for Non-Point Source Projects:" 1) Cover letter , 2) Report . (PDFs)  (April 2002)

• "Conservation Savings Increment Loans: A Proposal Concerning The State Revolving Funds:" 1) Cover letter , 2) Report . (PDFs)  (September 2001)

• "Arbitrage Relief Would Increase Funds Available to Meet Critical Water and Sewer Funding Needs:" 1) Cover letter , 2) Report . (PDFs)  (September 2001)

• Environmental State Revolving Funds: Developing a Model to Expand the Scope of the SRF   (PDF)  (June 2001)

• Pace of Lending Issues Regarding State Revolving Funds  (January 2000)

• Ways the State Revolving Funds Could Assist the Better America Bonds Initiative   (PDF)  (June 1999)

• Funding Privately Owned Water Providers through the Safe Drinking Water Act State Revolving Fund  (July 1998)

• Why Longer Loan Terms are Prudent for SRF's  - Technical Report (PDF) (November 1997)

• "State Revolving Fund: A Decade of Successful SRF Performance, 1987-1997"  - Council of Infrastructure Financing Authorities, EFAB Advisory Board

• Applications of the Cross-Collateralization Language to Various State Revolving Fund Structures  (November 1997)

• Follow-up EFAB Letter Regarding Cross-Collateralization  (June 1997)

• Evaluation of the Transferability Provisions in the Safe Drinking Water Act as a Means for Cross-Collateralization  (February 1997)

• Cross-Collateralization Issues Affecting the State Revolving Fund Program  (November 1996)

Superfund Reports:

• "Leveraging the Superfund: Ideas and Opportunities" - Superfund Report No. 2 (March 1996)

• "Increasing Flexibility for Financing the Cleanup of Contaminated Sites" - Superfund Report No. 1 (September 1995)

Cost-Effective Environmental Management Reports:

• Environmental Management Systems Letter Report, a Letter to Marianne L. Horinko, Acting Administrator  (PDF)  (July 2003)  

• Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement 34 Letter Report, a Letter to Marianne L. Horinko, Acting Administrator  (PDF)  (July 2003)  

• "Public Sector Initiatives to Increase Efficiency and Overall Performance in the Water and Wastewater Industry:" 1) Cover letter , 2) Summary Notes of Key Points . (PDFs)  (April 2002)

• Private Sector Initiatives to Improve Efficiencies in Providing Public-Purpose Environmental Services   (PDF)  (July 2001)

• Cost-Effective Environmental Management Case Studies  (January 1998)

International Reports:

• Removing Barriers to Investment in Environmental Infrastructure in Western Europe  - White Paper (PDF) (December 2000)

• Cooperative International Environmental Bond Guaranty Fund  (PDF) (June 1999)

• Comments on the OIA Draft Proposal for the NIS Environmental Bond Guaranty Program , a Letter to the Assistant Administrator for International Activities (August 1998)

• "Creating a Viable Finance Program for the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission and the North American Development Bank Under the North American Free Trade Agreement" (August 1994)

• "Implementing the Environmental Finance Aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement" (April 1994)

• "Financing the Remediation of Hazardous Waste Sites Under the North American Free Trade Agreement" (April 1994)

• "Financing Environmental Infrastructure along the United States- Mexican Border and in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics" (July 1993)

Other Reports:

• Protecting America's Land Legacy: Stewardship Policies, Tools, and Incentives to Protect and Restore America's Land Legacy  (PDF)  (February 2003)

• Letter to ORD on Small Business Innovative Research topics  (PDF)  (September 2001)

• The Environmental Financial Advisory Board's Strategic Action Agenda for Fiscal Years 2001-2002 .  (PDF) (January 2001)

• The Environmental Financial Advisory Board's Strategic Action Agenda for Fiscal Years 2000-2001 .

• The Environmental Financial Advisory Board's Strategic Action Agenda for Fiscal Years 1999-2000 .

• Improving Small Business Access to Capital for Environmental Projects , a Letter to the Administrator  (July 1997)

• Common Sense Initiative Access to Capital "Charrette" , an Environmental Financial Advisory Board / Environmental Finance Center collaborative effort (January 1997)

• Urban Environmental Policy: Steps Toward Environmental Equity, Reduced Environmental and Health Risks, and Urban Revitalization  (March 1993)

• "The Clean Air Act of 1990: A Guide to Public Financing Options." (This report was prepared in collaboration with the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee) (Fall 1992)

• "Narrowing the Gap: Environmental Finance for the 1990s" (Progress Report of the EFAB) (May 1992)

• Public Sector Options to Finance Environmental Facilities  (March 1992)

• "Private Sector Participation in the Provision of Environmental Services: Barriers and Incentives"  (November 1991)

• "Incentives for Environmental Investment: Changing Behavior and Building Capital" (August 1991)

• "Small Community Financing Strategies for Environmental Facilities" (August 1991)

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