The Western Region TAB Program is currently working on several
community-based projects.
You can read a little about them below.
For more information, please
contact us.
Organization or Project: Nevada Division of Environmental
Protection
TAB Contact: Michael Fernandez, michael.fernandez@orst.edu,
541-737-4023
Date TAB learned about the community: 9/1/2000
Description: TAB is exploring opportunities to collaborate
with the state brownfields coordinator, most likely on a rural brownfields
conference.
Notes on TAB Involvement:
- 11/4/2002
- TOSC met with state Department of Environmental Protection
representatives to discuss the planning and organization of a
Nevada brownfields conference in 2003. TOSC provided suggestions
about how to gage potential interest in such a conference and
provided information about their experiences organizing similar
conferences in
- 1 /24/2003
- Nevada Department of Environmental Protection is working with
a consultant to develop a 2003 Brownfields Conference. They have
asked TAB to assist with planning the agenda.
Organization or Project: Clackamas County
TAB Contact: Michael Fernandez, michael.fernandez@orst.edu,
541-737-4023
Date TAB learned about the community: 10/1/2001
Description: The County was recently selected as
a brownfields grant recipient. TAB has agreed to assist the County
in its community outreach and education program. TAB anticipates preparing
and presenting workshops on site assessment and cleanup for community
members and selected property owners.
Notes on TAB Involvement:
- 12/3/2001
- TAB has provided assistance to the county economic development
agency to assess potential brownfield redevelopment sites. TAB
provided input on a brownfields utilization plan to evaluate strategic
brownfields sites in Clackamas County. The plan is intended to
enable the county to determine the nature and extent of contamination
at these sites and develop an approach and costs analysis for
cleanup. TAB also assisted the county in developing a comprehensive
brownfields redevelopment strategy and provided a letter of support
for the county's 2001 EPA
- 1 /7/2002
- TOSC prepared a letter of support for the County's EPA pilot
grant application.
- 9/30/2002
- TOSC discussed the county's community outreach needs and the
possibility of holding workshops on issues such as liability,
financing, and cleanup.
- 1/21/2003
- TAB has assisted Clackamas County with selection of a consultant
to do environmental assessments throughout the County. TAB activities
included: review and comment on the Request For Proposal prepared
by the County, service on the committee charged with reviewing
incoming proposals and selecting a consulting/engineering firm.
Organization or Project: Oregon Brownfields Conference
TAB Contact: Michael Fernandez, michael.fernandez@orst.edu,
541-737-4023
Date TAB learned about the community: 1/1/1999
Description: TAB helps coordinate this annual conference
in partnership with Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and
Oregon Economic and Community Development Department.
Notes on TAB Involvement:
- 12/3 /2001
- Planned and staged its third annual conference to assist communities
in redeveloping brownfields. The conference took place on October
8 and 9, 2001 and included presentations from thirty-six speakers
on topics including environmental assessment and cleanup, managing
legal liability, financing cleanup and redevelopment, and actual
case studies of brownfields redevelopment projects. Ninety representatives
of municipal, county, regional, state, and federal government,
as well private sector consultants and attorneys attended the
conference.
- 9 /11/2002
- TAB participated in the 4th Annual Conference on Sept 5-6.
Michael Fernandez gave a presentation on brownfields basics with
Charlie Bartsch from the Northeast Midwest Center and helped facilitate
the Brownfields Mystery Theater session. Approximately 200 people
participated in this year's conference.
- 6/1/2002
- There will not be a 2003 Oregon Brownfields Conference since
the National Brownfields Conference will be held in Portland this
fall. More information about the National Conference is available
on-line at: http://www.brownfields2003.org
Organization or Project: Oregon DEQ Brownfields
Program
TAB Contact: Michael Fernandez, michael.fernandez@orst.edu,
541-737-4023
Date TAB learned about the community: 3/1/2000
Description: We act as a resource to the ODEQ brownfields
program. ODEQ has asked TAB to prepare and administer a survey of
community brownfields needs this year.
Items in Letter of Agreement:
Notes on TAB Involvement:
- 12/1 /1998
- Working with Oregon DEQ and EPA Region 10 Brownfields Coordinator
in developing a series of one day workshops to be held in communities
around Oregon. Workshops are targeted to area municipal and development
leaders, and will provide Brownfields basics, a handbook of tools
and information resources, as well as consideration of some local/regional
brownfield issues. First workshop held this fall in Klamath Falls,
OR.
- 9 /30/2002
- TAB participated in the Oregon Department of Environmental
Quality brownfields meeting.
- 1 /13/2003
- At ODEQ's request, TAB is developing a web-based brownfields
needs assessment survey.
- 2 /21/2003
- TAB met with DEQ staff and members of the Oregon Brownfields
Conference planning committee on February 20 to discuss potential
case studies, format, field trips, and other activities for the
EPA national brownfields conference to be held in Portland on
October 26, 27, and 28, 2003. These will be used to create suggestions
for the contractor EPA will assign to organize and present the
conference.
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- 5/27/2003
- TAB participated in the May 16 brownfields conference planning
meeting. The meeting's purpose was to provide opportunities for
participants to help develop concepts for Oregon-focused sessions
for the upcoming EPA national brownfields conference.
- 7/7/2003
- TAB completed the needs assessment survey Oregon DEQ requested.
We are in the process of distributing the survey with the assistance
of other organizations such as the League of Oregon Cities and
Association of Oregon Counties. More information about the survey
is available at: http://www.tosc.orst.edu/about/news/newsletters/2003_07.htm
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Organization or Project: Portland Showcase
TAB Contact: Michael Fernandez, michael.fernandez@orst.edu,
541-737-4023
Date TAB learned about the community:
Description: TAB continues to assist this showcase
community as a regulatory liaison and community involvement resource.
We also continue to provide technical assistance as needed.
Items in Letter of Agreement: Prepare "master" site
cleanup fact sheet; evaluate current state/federal interagency workgroup
for opportunitites to expand and build improved partnerships; review
existing Showcase Program web links and suggest improvements and additions;
recommend 10-12 essential brownfield library documents; evaluate the
exisiting Regulatory Innovation Action Plan and suggest how to build
upon DEQ reforms; evaluate implications of the Endangered Species
Act.
Notes on TAB Involvement:
- 2 /11/1999
- Currently working with the City of Portland, OR to develop
a list of potential redevelopment sites and to perform community
outreach related to redevelopment. Partnering with the The Urban
League to obtain a Brownfields Job Training grant.
- 12/3/2001
- TAB will continue to participate in Technical Committee meetings
and provide technical assistance in the form of report and data
review as needed.
Organization or Project: City of Spokane
TAB Contact: Jerry Orlando, jerry.orlando@orst.edu,
541-737-5736
Date TAB learned about the community: 6/1/2002
Description: The City of Spokane received a brownfields
assessment grant from EPA. TOSC is providing information about the
assessment process.
Notes on TAB Involvement:
- 9 /24/2002
- The City Council approvded acceptance of the brownfields assessment
grant.
- 10/14/2002
- TOSC answered questions about preparing RFP's and selecting
consultants and recommended written resources about these steps.
- 12/23/2002
- TAB is assisting Spokane in tasks related to brownfields redevelopment.
Activites include guidance on writing Request For Proposals from
consultants and increasing stakeholder participation through marketing
and PR.
- 2 /10/2003
- TAB visited Spokane 2/5/03 to discuss working on their brownfields
assessment grant and to tour redevelopment sites.
- 3 /19/2003
- TAB submitted a proposal of ways we could assist Spokane with
outreach activities related to brownfields. Activities include
a stakeholder survey and an interagency workshop that will create
a systematic process of site selection and prioritization that
reflects local values and redevelopment needs. TAB presented Spokane
with the survey templates that are being conducted this summer
the results of which will be used by the workshop.
- 5 /12/2003
- In April, Spokane was presented with a brownfields survey and
an agenda for a workshop to be held later in the summer. The survey
is designed to get a local feel for setting criteria for site
selection and promotion. The workshop will incorporate that data
in a meeting of agency leaders who will further refine the criteria.
Once criteria is decided upon they will be applied to the sites
in Spokane's neighborhoods of interest to select the best sites
for redevelopment.
- 7 /14/2003
- The city is moving forward on getting the stakeholder survey
completed. The survey will be used in the interagency group planned
for later in the summer.
Organization or Project: Portland Development
Commission
Site: Grant Warehouse, Eliot Neighborhood
TAB Contact: Jerry Orlando, jerry.orlando@orst.edu,
541-737-5736
Date TAB learned about the community: 1/10/2003
Description: The Portland Development Commission
(PDC) has gone through the process of applying for an EPA Brownfields
Assessment Grant for a contaminated property in the Eliot Neighborhood
and asked TAB to assist the community with technical issues.
Notes on TAB Involvement:
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- 3 /19/2003
- TAB attended a community meeting 3/13 with PDC, reps from the
Eliot neighborhood and others to discuss the second phase of the
grant application for the Grant Warehouse in NE Portland.
- 6 /1 /2003
- TAB attended a neighborhood meeting organized by PDC that was
intended to inform the community of the grant and related activities.
- 7 /1 /2003
- TAB reviewed and gave comment on an RFP prepared by PDC for
a previous EPA assessment grant project in Portland. TAB also
brought together PDC staff and a consultant whose unique services
will be beneficial to the project.
- 7 /1 /2003
- PDC received a brownfields grant for the project but its future
is unknown because of land transfer issues.
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