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Title: Brownfields Redevelopment


1
Brownfields Redevelopment
  • Madeleine Kellam
  • Georgia Environmental Protection Division

2
What is a Brownfield?
  • Any property where soil or groundwater is
    contaminated with industrial chemicals or
    petroleum.

3
Is this a Brownfield?
4
Or maybe this?
5
Certainly not this!
6
Brownfields are everywhere!
  • Gas stations
  • Automobile service centers
  • Agricultural operations
  • Dry cleaners
  • Manufacturing operations
  • Just to name a few.

7
Doesnt the government make people clean up
contamination?
  • State or federal laws require many property
    owners to clean up contaminated soil and
    groundwater.
  • But many other contaminated properties dont fall
    under any regulatory authority that can require
    cleanup.

8
Hazardous Site Response ActState Superfund
  • Property owners must notify EPD if they find
    contamination on their land.
  • EPD assesses potential risk to the community.
  • Sites that need further investigation or cleanup
    are
  • listed on the hazardous site inventory (HSI).
  • Investigation and cleanup are supervised by EPD.

9
Environmental Liability
  • Owners of contaminated property are liable.
  • If you buy contaminated property,
  • that means
  • YOU.

10
Environmental liability is scary.
  • Cleanup could be long and expensive.
  • Someone might sue you for damages.
  • Result many brownfields are abandoned or
    underutilized.

11
Would you buy this property?
12
Georgia Hazardous Site Reuse and Redevelopment Act
  • The Georgia Brownfields Law

13
Goals of Brownfields Law
  • Return idle property and infrastructure to use.
  • Improve local tax revenues.
  • Bring jobs to city centers and industrial areas.
  • Improve blighted or sprawling communities.

14
How can the law do all that?
  • The law limits prospective purchaser liability.
  • With liability limitation, cleanup costs and
    other uncertainties are reduced.
  • Formerly stigmatized properties become more
    desirable.
  • Redevelopment becomes economically feasible.

15
How does it work?
  • Purchaser investigates soil and groundwater to
    identify pre-existing contamination.
  • Purchaser cleans up soil to Georgia standards.
  • Liability for groundwater contamination stays
    with the seller of the property.

16
Limitation of Liability
  • Applies to groundwater cleanup costs
  • Applies to third party claims
  • Can pass to subsequent purchasers

17
Eligibility Requirements
  • Must have a pre-existing contaminant release
  • Purchaser must have clean hands
  • No federal cleanup actions underway
  • HSRA liens must be satisfied

18
Application for Limitation of Liability
  • Application review fee (3,000)
  • Corrective Action Plan for soil cleanup
    (where needed)
  • Compliance Status Report

19
Why bother?
  • Location, location, location!
  • Brownfields program streamlines cleanup process.
  • Cleanup costs may not be as high as feared.

20
Brownfield cleanup is voluntary!
  • Purchasers are volunteering to clean up
    properties using their own money.
  • (Although companion property tax statute does
    provide opportunity for cost recovery.)
  • EPD recognizes Brownfields purchasers as partners
    in protecting the environment.

21
Partnership Approach
  • We get it.
  • Brownfield cleanup wont happen unless we
    assist with purchasers' redevelopment goals

22
Our partners need
  • Timeliness, because time money
  • Decisiveness, because money is committed based on
    what we say the first time
  • Flexibility, because if we cant adjust to their
    needs, properties wont get cleaned up
  • Results
  • 200 Brownfields projects to date
  • 2,000 acres undergoing voluntary cleanup
  • Millions of dollars invested in cleanup with
    minimal expense to taxpayers
  • Billion dollars statewide being invested in
    properties that were blighted or underutilized

23
Empty
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Available
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Wow!
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And more planned next door
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Questions? Call Us.
  • Georgia Brownfields Program
  • 404/656-7802
  • For HSI Brownfields
  • 404/657-8600
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