Brownfield Redevelopment Process

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Brownfield Redevelopment Process

• Application
• DNR review investigation, remediation needs
  iterative
• Site visits
• Tailor remedial action to future land use
• DED approval of tax credit package
• Conduct remediation, reporting
• Final report review, land use controls
• Closure - certification of completion

Continental Building St. Louis
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Brownfield Redevelopment Process

• Owner, lessee, buyer may apply
• Owner must grant access
• Public involvement
• Oversight cost relatively small
• Entire process averages 1 year
• Team approach to investigation, cleanup
  and redevelopment
• Post Closure inspection
• Restrictions can be lifted if conditions
  change

Eagleton Courthouse St. Louis
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Certification of Completion

• VCP has overseen cleanup
• No further remedial action required
• Site is safe for its intended use
• Reopeners only for
  new or undiscovered
  contamination, fraud
• EPA Memorandum
  of Agreement

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Missouris Drycleaning Environmental Response
Trust (DERT) Fund

• Established by senate bill 577/RSMo 260.920
• Provides funds for the investigation, assessment,
  and remediation of releases of solvents from
  drycleaning facilities
• Dedicated state fund, fees and taxes on dry
  cleaning solvents and
  facilities
• Currently writing rules
• Several pilot projects
• Abandoned sites too

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Brownfield
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Browns Field
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Resources

• Brownfields/Voluntary Cleanup Section
  [phone]
• www.dnr.mo.gov or
• VCP home page www.dnr.mo.gov/alpd/hwp/hwpvcp.htm
• Fact sheets, application forms online

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We cannot solve problems with the same kind of
thinking that created them.