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Brownfield Integrated Planning Grants

Brownfield Integrated Planning Grants. Getting to Redevelopment: Brownfields Funding in Washington State. Jodi Gearon Washington State Department of Ecology October 1, 2014. Moving Beyond Cleanup in WA. Funding and Tools to Incentivize Cleanups. FUNDING:

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Brownfield Integrated Planning Grants

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  1. Brownfield Integrated Planning Grants Getting to Redevelopment: Brownfields Funding in Washington State Jodi Gearon Washington State Department of Ecology October 1, 2014

  2. Moving Beyond Cleanup in WA Funding and Tools to Incentivize Cleanups FUNDING: Provide funding to encourage cleanup & thought about reuse CLEANUP PROCESS: Policy tools to make contamination less of a barrier to development REDEVELOPMENT PLANNING

  3. Legislative Initiative • SB 5296 passed in 2013 authorizing new tools: • Defined Brownfields • Changed RAG program; made IPG program permanent • Created Redevelopment Opportunity Zones • Brownfield Renewal Authority • Brownfield Redevelopment Trust Fund Account • Model Remedies

  4. Remedial Action Grants and LoansChanges Effective September 29, 2014 • RAG Oversight Grants • Extended grant agreements added • Independent • Eligible cost limit increased to $600k • Periodic reimbursements allowed • Area-wide Groundwater Grants • $500k for investigation • Local gov’t does not need to be a PLP • Integrated Planning Grants • No longer a pilot program • $200k/$300k limit with no match requirement

  5. Historic Grant Funding 5 $0.8M 9 $1.6M

  6. IPG Distribution - 32 Grants, $6M 19 active Twisp Douglas Co. PUD Sea Tac Gig Harbor (2) Possible new projects

  7. Initial Phase • Establish ROZ • Establish BRA • Investigation Strategy and Grant Funding IPG - AWG - PPAO • Coordinate with Community Development Planning & Future Use • Environmental Investigation • Site Planning Areawide Groundwater Grant (investigation) Areawide Groundwater Contamination ROZ? Integrated Planning Grant Large site Independent site Independent Remedial Action Grant Pre Purchaser Agreed Order – Oversight RA Grant

  8. Cleanup Phase Agreed Order(s) Grant + Loans • Cleanup Finance Options: • Independent Remedial Action • Pay as you go • Extended Grant Agreements • Consent Decrees • Pre-purchaser • Public/private • Loans , Ecology and Dept. of Commerce • Bond and Revenue Comingled Plumes Source areas Model Remedies Large site Independentsite Port owned Sites Voluntary Cleanup -Independent Remedial Action Grant Consent Decree RAG or Mixed funding RAG + Private + Local Govt.

  9. Ecology Integrated Planning Grant EPA Grant $200,000 $200,000 $198,635 $100,000 HUD $50,000 Property Transfer Cleanup Action $199,635 $ 6,100,000 $0 $ 300,000 $439,000 $ 555,300 $ 156,000 $ 33,000 $ 43,900 $ 61,700 $ 250,000

  10. Need more Information? Jodi Gearon Policy and Technical Support (360)407-7188 Tiffany Johnson Brownfields Planner (360) 407-7336 Sandra Treccani Brownfields Site Manager (509) 329-3412 You can find it at: Whttp://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/tcp/regs/wac173322/1309.html bshttp://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/tcp/brownfields.html

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