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Reuse / Revitalization. What is Reuse / Revitalization?. Restoring contaminated and potentially contaminated sites to productive use. Reuse Plans, Goals, and Outcomes. Reuse plans and goals directly affect site outcomes - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Reuse / Revitalization

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Reuse / Revitalization

What is Reuse / Revitalization?

Restoring contaminated and

potentially contaminated

sites to productive use

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Reuse / Revitalization

Reuse Plans, Goals, and Outcomes

• Reuse plans and goals directly affect site outcomes

• Conceptual site model (CSM) drives investigation and remedial approaches

• Technical approaches and site decision requirements together drive tool selection

• Effective investigation and remediation provide basis for successful outcomes

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Reuse / Revitalization

Site Reuse Informs Remedial Strategy

Site Reuse Plan Site Remedial & Staging Plan

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Reuse / Revitalization

Key Reuse / Revitalization Considerations

• Are key stakeholders in alignment on goals?

• Does the community support the reuse plan?

• Does the type of cleanup support the anticipated reuse of the site?

• Will cleanup efforts be performed to meet unique reuse demand, cost constraints, and schedule?

• Will the selected remedies be designed and implemented to remain protective over time?

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Reuse / Revitalization

California Gulch Superfund Site, Colorado

Incorporating Ecological Revitalization into Cleanup Planning and Design

• Amendments• Regulatory Requirements• Attractive Nuisance• Equipment and Utility

Location• Hydrology and Surface

Water Management• Surface Vegetation

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City of Moorehead, Minnesota

Incorporating Urban Reuse into Cleanup Planning and Design

• Protectiveness of health and environment• Sustainable community benefit• Promotes economic, housing, or open space goals • Preservation of cultural identity and resources• Removes safety concern or “eye sore”

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Reuse / Revitalization

The former Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna, NYis now home to the Steel Winds wind farm. Generates enough electricity to power 7,000 homes.

Incorporating Renewable Energy into Contaminated Land Reuse

• Satisfies EPA’s RE-Powering America’s Land initiative

• Contaminated sites beneficial for energy siting because they:– Generally have existing transmission

capacity, infrastructure, and zoning– Take stress off undeveloped lands for

construction of new energy facilities, preserving the land carbon sink

– Provide economically viable reuse for sites with significant cleanup costs or low real estate development demand

– Provide job opportunities in urban and rural communities

Solar photovoltaic (PV) facility at a former landfill in Fort Carson, CO. The 12-acre site generates 3,200 MWh/year.

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Who Can BTSC Help?

Direct Technical Assistance– State and local governments– Tribes– Brownfields Grantees– EPA Regional Coordinators – EPA Remedial Project Managers – EPA On-Scene Coordinators – Other EPA Regional staff

Information Support– Real estate professionals– Developers and financial

institutions– Other private redevelopment

interests– Consultants, engineers and

remediators– Potentially Responsible

Parties (PRPs)– Affected Communities– General public

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Direct Technical Assistance Services● Project Strategy Consultation

– Including use of the Triad Approach, Exit Strategies

● Facilitation of Systematic Project Planning● Review or development of:

– Conceptual Site Models (CSMs)

– Dynamic Work Strategies

● Recommendation of innovative and real-time investigation technologies

● Evaluation of remedial technologies● Review of remedial designs

– Including Green Remediation and Ecological Revitalization

● Training – Live / Webcast / Archived

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Reuse / Revitalization

www.clu-in.org www.triadcentral.orgwww.brownfieldstsc.org

“Self-Help” Information Assistance

• Guidance Documents• Special Issues Primers• Technical Bulletins• Fact Sheets• Case Studies• Technology Descriptions• Internet Resources

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Reuse / Revitalization Summary

• Reuse / Revitalization key aspect of Brownfields

• Comprehensive planning leads to project success

• Effectively integrated solutions ensure sustainability

Contact: Michele Mahoney

Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation

[email protected]

Contact: Michele Mahoney

Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation

[email protected]