Monday 4/26/99 Brownfields Introductions

[Tony Chenhansa <tonyc@cpeo.org>]

Monday 4/26/99 Brownfields Introductions

28) Peter Meyer     Center of Env. Management, U of Louisville
29) Bruce Klafter     Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

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Subject:  Re: Self-Identification for CPEO-Brownfields
Date:  Sat, 24 Apr 1999 13:56:05 -0400
From:   "Peter B. Meyer" <PBMEYE02@ATHENA.LOUISVILLE.EDU>
Organization: Center for Environmental Management, U of Louisville


I'm Peter Meyer, with an "edu" trailer on my e-mail, but with a foot in
both the academic and business camps on brownfields (and, increasingly,
it appears, on military base closures). I oritinally got into
brownfields from an economic development/sustainable development angle,
and am now heavily into all elements of financing issues.

I am a professor in a PhD program in urban and public affairs and
director of a Center for Environmental Management at the Univeristy of
Louisville, where I also direct our new EPA Environmental Finance
Center. On the side, I run a small consulting firm that has been doing
work for EPA and HUD on brownfields policy development and impacts. In
the latter capacity, I am responsible for the oft-referenced "HUD
Insurance Study" (thanks for the publicity) and am currently doing
analysis of state Voluntary Cleanup Programs and their impacts on
brownfield cleanup and redevelopment efforts.

The EFC will be looking at brownfields in conjunction with work on
urban infill and the general issue of communities and how they are
affected
by the spatial patterns of urban expansion (sprawl). My current
community
involvements include service on the committees that run the Louisville
Brownfield Pilot and our Brownfield Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund.

My hobbies include participant observation in eco-tourism activities
(scuba diving included) when I get the chance... and my work,
especially since I share both with my wife, another CPEO listserv
member, Kristen
Yount.


--
Peter B. Meyer
The E.P. Systems Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 2736
Louisville, KY 40201
 502/896-9448 or 502/852-8032
 Fax: 502/852-4558

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Subject:      Introductions
Date:        Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:53:42 -0700
From:        "Bruce Klafter" <bklafter@orrick.com>


Hello everyone, I'm an environmental lawyer at Orrick, Herrington &
Sutcliffe.  Orrick is a large firm (525 lawyers) with offices in S.F.,
L.A., Sacramento and several other locations (nationally and overseas).
I've
been practicing law for 18 years, the first ten as a California Deputy
Attorney
General and the last eight years  with Orrick.  My practice is varied
and
includes litigation (mostly Prop 65 cases, Clean Water Act litigation
and
contaminated property disputes) as well as counseling and transactions.
In
the brownfields area, I have assisted numerous clients in selling and
buying properties, ranging from former service station sites up to
Superfund
sites. I represent a number of national lenders making commercial and
multi-family loans and have a good feel for their requirements as far as
contaminated
properties are concerned.  FYI-Orrick is the leading public finance law
firm in the entire nation (both in dollar volume and number of issues)
and we
are trying to help public entities find resources and creative financing
for
brownfields development.  Please contact me if you need an introduction
to
one of our public finance attorneys.  Thanks.

Bruce S. Klafter, Esq.
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
400 Sansome St.
San Francisco, Ca.  94111
(415) 773-5576; fax (415) 773-5759
BKlafter@orrick.com


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