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From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:09:54 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Fwd: EPA Releases New Fact Sheet on "Potential Advantages of Reusing Potentially Contaminated Land for Renewable Energy"
 

Dear RE-Powering Stakeholders,

The EPA's RE-Powering America's Land Initiative has just released the "Potential Advantages of Reusing Potentially Contaminated Land for Renewable Energy" fact sheet on our website (www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/).

The purpose of this fact sheet is to promote the use of potentially contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites for renewable energy development by highlighting the potentially significant advantages these sites offer when compared to other sites, such as open space. Some of these sites have unique attributes that can lower development costs and shorten development timeframes. Potentially contaminated lands, landfills, and mining sites offer developers a unique value proposition for renewable energy deployment:

Potential advantages include:

  • Leverage existing infrastructure
  • Reduce project cycle times through streamlined permitting and zoning
  • Improve project economics with reduced land costs and tax incentives
  • Build sustainable land development strategy based on using over 15 million acres of Superfund, brownfields, and RCRA sites pre-screened for suitability with renewable energy
  • Gain community support through land revitalization efforts
  • Protect open space

The fact sheet provides examples associated with each advantage, as well as links to references or tools tools to aid interested parties in exploring this redevelopment option. This strategy creates new markets for potentially contaminated lands, while providing a sustainable land development strategy for renewable energy. RE-Powering aims to turn liabilities into assets for surrounding communities by fostering collaborative networks between the energy and remediation sectors.

Please contact a member of the EPA's RE-Powering Rapid Response team if you have any follow-up questions or would like to learn more about the RE-Powering initiative.

Thank you,

Shea Jones
Program Analyst
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER)
Center for Program Analysis (CPA)
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (MC 5101T)
Washington, DC 20460
Phone: (202) 566-0450
Fax: (202) 566-0207
www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918

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