Past Conference Presentations

2005 Brownfields National Conference TRIAD Presentation: Getting to the Finish Line for Cleanup and into the Starting Block for Reuse with the Triad Approach
Introduction to the Triad approach, real world applications, and cost savings.

2005 Brownfields National Conference TRIAD Presentation: Milltown Redevelopment Project Triad Investigation: Data Management Program
Overview of the Brownfields Redevelopment Project in Milltown, New Jersey.

2005 Brownfields National Conference TRIAD Presentation: Poudre River Site
Overview of the Poudre River Brownfields Project in Fort Collins, Colorado.

2005 Brownfields National Conference TRIAD Presentation: Triad Gone Wild
Background information on the Triad approach, benefits of the Triad, and Triad use across regions and programs.

Brownfields 2003 Session on Use of the Triad approach
Presentation includes an overview of the Triad approach and case studies. Presentations from the Feeling the Need for Speed: Using the Triad to Tackle Brownfields Session.

Cleaning Up Contaminated Properties for Reuse and REVitalization: Effective TECHnical Approaches and Tools - After Action Information
Information includes the final agenda for the conference with presentations; the list of poster presentations, exhibitors, and technology fair vendors; and abstracts and bio-sketches.

Documents and Publications

Environmental Insurance and Public Sector Brownfields Programs: Factors Affecting Pursuit of Insurance as a Redevelopment Tool

Improving Decision Quality: Making the Case for Adopting Next-Generation Site Characterization Practices
This paper, which was published in Remediation in spring 2003 as a joint effort of EPA OSRTI and the Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA), addresses developments in site characterization and the barriers that hinder improved decision-making. The paper discusses the need for the site cleanup industry to continue its technical advancement by using next-generation models based on current scientific understanding. It addresses data quality assessments and the impacts of matrix heterogeneity on analytical results. The paper also discusses the use of the Triad approach – systematic project planning, dynamic work planning strategies, and real-time data generation – as a means of moving beyond existing data paradigms.

Northeast/Midwest Institute Guide to Federal Brownfields Programs

USACE Technical Project Planning (TPP) Process

Past Events

Introduction to Groundwater Investigations, 165.7
San Francisco, CA
February 18 - 20, 2004
This 3-day introductory course is designed to provide participants with information concerning hydrogeological processes and the necessary elements of a sound groundwater site investigation. It is intended for personnel who are involved in groundwater contamination investigations but have little prior hydrogeological experience. This course is not designed for geologists or hydrogeologists.
http://www.trainex.org/

Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling Optimization Workshop at the International Ground Water Monitoring Center (IGWMC)
Golden, CO
March 17 - 19, 2004
This course, sponsored by DoD and EPA, is intended to increase awareness of environmental project managers and the groundwater modeling community regarding the use of modeling optimization to optimize pumping strategies for real-world plume remediation problems. It will provide fundamental concepts to all attendees (managers and modelers) during the first day and then provide more detailed instruction on the use of two codes: Simulation/Optimization Modeling System (SOMOS) and Modular Groundwater Optimizer (MGO). Contact Sophia Seo at IGWMC (hseo@Mines.EDU) or Yan Zhang at GeoTrans, Inc. (yzhang@geotransinc.com) for course details.
http://clu-in.org/courses/

Air & Waste Management Association’s Hazardous Waste Combustors Conference
San Antonio, TX
May 10 - 12, 2004
This conference will include presentations and participation in panel discussions on a wide range of topics, in areas related to the combustion of waste in combustion units, including: boilers, cement kilns, lightweight aggregate kilns, and incinerators. Industry, government organizations, and nongovernmental organizations will also participate. There will be a special emphasis on the new Hazardous Waste Combustor MACT standards and alternative materials reuse, in addition to the overlapping RCRA regulatory issues.
http://www.awma.org/events/confs/HWCO04/default1.asp

Brownfields 2004
Siena, Italy
June 14 - 16, 2004
Brownfields 2004 provides an international forum to discuss the problems facing the public and private sectors and the engineering and scientific communities in terms of the decrease of available new land for development purposes. The conference aims to look at long term plans for the productive re-use of properties that have been abandoned or lie idle, in order to satisfy current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own requirements.
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2004/brownfields04/index.html

Accelerating Site Closeout, Improving Performance, Improving & Reducing Costs Through Optimization
Dallas, TX
June 15 - 17, 2004
This conference, sponsored by member agencies of the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable, will outline long-term remediation liabilities and optimization needs and opportunities; disseminate existing and emerging optimization strategies, technologies, tools and science; communicate lessons learned; and present remedial optimization within the context of site wide and multi-site management programs.
http://clu-in.org/siteopt/siteopt.htm

Brownfields Conference 2004
St. Louis, MO
September 20 - 22, 2004
The national Brownfields Conferences bring together key experts from all levels of government, business, and finance and from local communities to share ideas and experiences in the field of urban and environmental development.
http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/bfconf.htm

Free Internet Seminar Sustainability and Brownfields Reuse PART I/II. Planning for Success - Brownfields Reuse in the Big Picture
September 29 - 30, 2004
Free Internet Seminar
Sustainability and Brownfields Reuse PART I/II. Planning for Success - Brownfields Reuse in the Big Picture
September 29, 2004, 12:00 - 2:00 Eastern

Available for Brownfields communities, EPA Brownfields Program staff and others. Visit http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/bflessons/ to register.

SEMINAR CONTENT: Join experts whose communities are flourishing as a result of sound ordinances and plans that incorporate the lessons of openspace preservation, smart growth, green building, and brownfields reuse. Hear how smart planning can spur brownfields cleanup and reuse, and benefit local economies, quality of life and the environment. Our guests will present approaches taken in a large urban/sub-urban area, as well as those employed in a small town and its surrounding rural areas. This is Part I of a two-part series; information on Part II, a presentation of case studies of successful and sustainable redevelopments of both large and small brownfields, will be provided in the near future.
http://www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/bflessons/

The FY05 Guidelines for the Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants have been posted to the brownfields website at www.epa.gov/brownfields. The proposal deadline is November 12, 2004.
November 12 - 13, 2004
The FY05 Guidelines for the Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants have been posted to the brownfields website at www.epa.gov/brownfields. The proposal deadline is November 12, 2004.

These grants may be used to address sites contaminated by petroleum and hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum). The brownfields assessment grants (each funded up to $200,000 over two years) provide funding for a grant recipient to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct planning and community involvement related to brownfield sites. The brownfields revolving loan fund grants (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years) provide funding for a grant recipient to capitalize a revolving loan fund and to provide subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites that are owned by the subgrant recipient. The brownfields cleanup grants (each funded up to $200,000 over two years) provide funding for a grant recipient to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites that are owned by the grant recipient. (See Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 66.818).

For the brownfields assessment grants, an applicant may request a waiver of the $200,000 limit and obtain funding up to $350,000 based on the anticipated level of contamination, size, or ownership status of the site. The revolving loan fund and cleanup grants require a 20 percent cost share, which may be in the form of a contribution of money, labor, material, or services from a non-federal source. If the cost share is in the form of contribution of labor, material, or other services, it must be incurred for an eligible and allowable cost under the grant and not for ineligible costs. An applicant may request a waiver of the 20 percent cost share requirement based on hardship.

For more information on EPA's Brownfields Program visit: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/

National Brownfields Conference - Boulder, Colorado, November 2-4, 2005
November 2 - 30, 2005
This annual free conference features interactive discussions, educational presentations, mobile workshops, and plenty of networking opportunities with business, government, and nonprofit organizations working at the enterprising edge of Brownfields redevelopment.
http://www.brownfields2005.org/en/index.aspx