Iowa Department of Economic Development Business and Regulatory Assistance Team

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Iowa Department of Economic DevelopmentBusiness
and Regulatory Assistance Team

• Sherry Timmins
• Regulatory Assistance Coordinator
• 515.242.4901
• Sherry.Timmins_at_iowalifechanging.com

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Business and Regulatory Assistance

• Principles
• Strategies
• Services
• Future Issues

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Principles

• Non-regulatory and confidential
• All customers deserve timely and comprehensive
  service
• Enhances the ability of a customer to operate
  efficiently, avoid planning mistakes, increases
  compliance effectiveness
• Critical to start-up and small business whose
  resources are limited
• Catalyst for environmental sustainability -
  facilitating best practices and partnerships
• Help communities become vital and healthy areas
  for business to expand and attract skilled work
  forces

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Strategies

• Partnerships - leverage resources, increases
  knowledge, credibility, and services
• Communication - win-win for regulatory
  agencies, assistance providers and customers
• Challenge - ask why or why not to break down
  perception and process barriers
• Anticipate - key customer, partner and
  stakeholder needs

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Questions!
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Questions!

• We are looking at Iowa for an expansion,
  environmental permits the following
• Is a handling period of 3 months from turning in
  the application to final approval possible?
• Is it possible to have emissions from our paint
  shop / curing facilities with the following
  characteristics without treatment?

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Questions!

• Our waste water treatment permit has expired.
• The application is confusing!
• Our small community will have to tighten our
  control limits!
• Is there anyone that can help?

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Questions!

• We are thinking of purchasing a brownfield
  property, what to be aware of before purchasing?
• Ideas on how can we reduce our regulatory costs
  and protect the environment?

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Questions!

• Where do I find verification of a business name?
• How do I apply for a new state withholding tax
  account...we do not have a business in your
  state, but we are hiring employees in Iowa and
  will also work in Iowa

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Small Business Environmental Liaison
1990 U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments Small
Business Environmental Liaison Assist small
business with understanding regulations Ensure
access to technical assistance resources
Outreach and communication to the small
business community Ombudsman between IDNR and
small business
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Business Assistance Council for Environmental
Sustainability (BACES)

• EPA Blue Skyways Collaborative
• Clipper Wind Turbine Facility
• Institute for Environmental Research and
  Education at the Iowa Waste Reduction Center
• Des Moines Energy and Environment Task Force
• Sundance Summit on Climate Protection

• Des Moines Capacity Center of International
  Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
  (ICLEI)
• Ethanol's Impact on Iowa's Groundwater, Watershed
  and Air Quality.
• Certified Environmental Management Systems for
  Agriculture
• Evolving World of Renewable Fuels

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Tools of Success

• 2008 Construction and Demolition (CD) workshops
• Sustainability Educators Roundtable
• County Grain Elevators Workshops
• IDED DNR Environmental Resources Lunch and
  Learn

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Contact

• Jan Loyson, Small Business Environmental Liaison
• Jan.Loyson_at_iowalifechanging.com
• Environmental Business Assistance
  1-800-351-4668
• 515.242.4761

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Water Quality Advocate

• 2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2540, Sec.27
• Funding to IDED for an Environmental Advocate to
  provide technical assistance to NPDES permit
  holders

• Point of contact between regulatory agencies,
  businesses and communities on water quality
  issues
• Outreach and assistance, including permitting and
  compliance requirements
• Connect businesses and communities with water
  quality programs and expert resources

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Water Quality Advocate
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Water Quality Advocate

• November 20
• Mason City , Iowa
• Lime Creek Nature Center
• 9 a.m. to noon

• 2007 NPDES 101 Assistance Workshops
• Assist - waste water treatment operators and city
  clerks
• Understand Clean Water Act requirements, answer
  questions, complete an accurate permit renewal
  form

• November 28
• Atlantic, Iowa
• Iowa Western Community College
• 9 a.m. to noon

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Contact

• Jessica Montana, Water Quality Advocate
• Jessica.Montana_at_iowalifechanging.com
• Environmental Business Assistance
  1-800-351-4668
• 515.242.4871

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Brownfield RedevelopmentRecycling Assistance

• 15.292 BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
• IDED shall administer a brownfield redevelopment
  program to provide financial and technical
  assistance for the acquisition, remediation, or
  redevelopment of brownfield sites

• 455E.11 GROUNDWATER PROTECTION FUND ESTABLISHED
• Three percent (of the solid waste tonnage fee) to
  IDED to assist the recycling industry

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Brownfield Redevelopment

• Reuse existing infrastructure
• Reinvest in underutilized properties
• Conserve green space
• Sustainable land and building design
• RESOURCES

• Information and resources for prospective
  purchasers
• Technical assessment for communities
• FY 07 Brownfield Funding Round

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Recycling

• Iowa Waste Exchange
• Matches byproducts and waste to groups able to
  re-use or recycle materials
• Online database of materials
• Avoids storage, transportation and storage fees

• Materials Testing Service
• Replacing mainstream materials with innovative
  composites
• Testing services - chemical, mechanical, and
  physical property tests

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Contact

• Matt Rasmussen, Program Manager
• Matt.Rasmussen_at_iowalifechanging.com
• Environmental Business Assistance
  1-800-351-4668
• 515.242.4906

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Business License Information Center

• Iowa Code, 15E.17
• Enable an individual or business interested in
  establishing a commercial facility or activity to
  obtain information about any registration,
  license or other approval required under state
  law

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Business License Information Center

• On-line data base of professionally licensed
  occupations, registrations, certifications, and
  permits required by the state to legally conduct
  business in Iowa
• Iowa does not have a general business license
• Search engine moves across all agency
  requirements to identify compliance needs

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Business License Information Center
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Contact

• Christine Cavil, Program Manager
• Christine.Cavil_at_iowalifechanging.com
• Business License Information Center
  1-800-532-1216
• 515.242.4755
• http//www.iowalifechanging.com/business/blic.html

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Business and Regulatory Assistance Team

• 2005 Acts, ch 150, 7
• 15E.19 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE
• IDED shall coordinate all regulatory assistance
  for the state of Iowa
• Regulatory agencies shall maintain a coordinator
  within the regulatory agency

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Business and Regulatory Assistance Team

• Regulatory agencies shall maintain a coordinator
  within the agency to
• 1. Provide a primary contact for IDED
• 2. Present regulatory requirements and represent
  the agency to business
• 3. Monitor permit applications and permit status
  to IDED
• 4. Require regulatory staff to participate in
  discussions with businesses
• 5. Notify IDED of rulemaking activities impacting
  business

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Business and Regulatory Assistance Team
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Business and Regulatory Assistance Team

• Administrative Services IT, Mark Uhrin
• Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Margaret
  Thomson
• Human Services Child Support , Doris Taylor
• Iowa Utilities Board, Joan Conrad
• Iowa Workforce Development, Kathleen Uehling

• Professional Licensing Bureau, Glenda Loving
• Public Health, Dean Austin
• Natural Resources, Christine Spackman
• Public Safety, Mike Coveyou
• Revenue, Paul Benson
• Transportation, Bruce Schuck

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Business and Regulatory Assistance Team

• Enterprise thinking approach
• Quick response to email phone inquiries
• Permit consultations help economic development
  projects meet timelines
• More comprehensive accurate information
• Facilitate coordinated outreach by many
  organizations

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Web Portals

• 1. Business Coordinators
• http//regassist.iowa.gov/
• 2. Employer Awareness Guide
• http//regassist.iowa.gov/employer_aware/index.htm
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• 3. Plain Speak on Administrative Rules
• http//www.adminrules.iowa.gov/
• 4. Environmental Business Assistance
• http//regassist.iowa.gov/business_resources/envir
  on_assistance.html

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Assistance Fact Sheets

• Structuring Your New Business
• Business Licensing
• Biodiesel Facility Regulatory Assistance Guide
• Ethanol Facility Regulatory Assistance Guide
• Site Development and Expansion

• Iowa Environmental Regulatory Guide for
  Industries
• Small Business Environmental Assistance Program
• Water Quality Advocacy
• Air Quality - Compliance Information for Economic
  Developers
• Recycling Technical Assistance and Tax Exemptions

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Contact

• Sherry Timmins, Regulatory Assistance Coordinator
  
• Sherry.Timmins_at_iowalifechanging.com
• 1-800-532-1216
• 515.242.4901
• http//www.iowalifechanging.com/business/blic.html

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New York Times, May 17, 2006

• If politics make for strange bedfellows, global
  warming, endangered forests, dwindling water
  supplies and scary new technologies have made for
  even stranger ones. Environmentalists and
  corporations are engaging in a new spirit of
  cooperation.
• The idea that its none of their damned business
  when it comes to environmental risks has
  disappeared, said Ian W. Fowler, a former
  executive at BP and now a consultant to nonprofit
  groups.

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Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2007

• Its an approach that Mr. Krupp, CEO,
  Environmental Defense Fund, says in the soothing
  words that are his style, recognizes the
  realities of the world and deals with them. It
  harnesses market forces and incentives so
  companies are rewarded in the courts of public
  opinion or in the emissions-trading system

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Future Issues

• Global
• USCAP mandatory reductions marketing trading
• REGGI - NE Mid Atl. Carbon trading
• Chicago Climate Exchange - GHG trading
• Quebec Carbon Tax
• California GHG 80 reduction goal

• Iowa
• Greenhouse Gas Inventories
• Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council
• Climate Change Registry
• Office of Energy Independence
• IDED Green Streets

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2 Key Words Mitigation Adaptation

• Alliances
• Transparency
• Facilitating entrepreneurialism
• Consistency across enterprise
• Innovative