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Brownfields Roundtables January 26, 2009

  

Quarterly Brownfield Roundtable: January 26, 2009

Date
Monday, January 26

Time and Location
All meetings are held from from 10:00 to 4:00 (see note below)**

DEP Hearing Room
401 East State Street—First Floor
Trenton, NJ

**Note:
10:00 to 12:00 for municipalities, counties, federal and non-profit organizations
1:00 to 4:00 for all brownfield stakeholder groups

Background
The Roundtables are a forum designed to promote information sharing among both public and private entities involved with the remediation and reuse of brownfields in New Jersey. These Roundtables are held in the Public Hearing Room on the first floor of the Department of Environmental Protection building, 401 East State Street in Trenton. No pre-registration is required.

The morning sessions, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon, are workshops for municipal, county, state, federal and non-profit communities only. Consultants or other private entities are only admitted at the request of one of these public communities. DEP uses this forum to learn, from our public entities, what is working and what is challenging their brownfield redevelopment efforts.

The afternoon session, from 1:00 to 4:00, is a forum open to all interested in New Jersey brownfields redevelopment. A regular feature of the afternoon session is a regulatory and legislative update from representatives of the US EPA and the Office of Brownfield Resue. The afternoon sessions also include presentations on various topics relevant to brownfield remediation and reuse.

This office will announce the 2009 Brownfield Development Area (BDA) application round in later this month. The submittal deadline will again be March 31. At the January Roundtable, we will discuss the BDA application process and provide guidance on how to successfully apply for the BDA designation. We try very hard to make the Roundtable agenda relevant and useful. Please let me know if there are topics you feel would be useful at future Roundtables.

Other Brownfield Information

Vapor Intrusion Guidance - A new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section and updated versions of the Evaluating Indoor Air Near VOC Contaminated Sites and Subsurface Depressurization System fact sheets have been added to the NJDEP Vapor Intrusion website. This information may be accessed at http://www.nj.gov/dep/srp/guidance/vaporintrusion/.

NJ EDA InvestNJ Business Grant Program - The NJ EDA InvestNJ Business Grant Program will  be used to put underutilized brownfield sites back to productive use. In short, the InvestNJ Business Grant Program was created as a core component of Governor Corzine's New Jersey Economic Recovery Plan. It is a limited-term program designed to provide new capital investment and employment grants to help improve New Jersey's economic, job growth and business retention capabilities during this challenging economic period.

NJ EDA Main Street Business Assistance Program - The NJ Main Street Business Assistance Program is another component of Governor Corzine's New Jersey Economic Recovery Plan. This program will provide eligible lending institutions with financing to maintain their business customers' existing employee base, expand or renovate their location, buy equipment or refinance a loan.
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