2014 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:16:03 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] New Life for Closed Gas Stations Conference & Exhibition Kicks Off in Two Days (June 4, 2014)
 
From: Michael Goldstein <MGoldstein@Goldsteinenvlaw.com>
Date: June 2, 2014 9:46:24 AM PDT

One last email regarding this important conference in the two days before the first session convenes to give you a very detailed understanding of the scope of the program and how it may be of benefit.
The program is designed to tell a detailed but very practical story  
about how to best and most cost-efficiently repurpose closed gas  
stations (almost always contaminated) and incorporate them into any  
one of several dozen different end-uses or combinations of end- 
uses.   We do this by first looking at the architecture and  
mechanics of gas stations; that is, how they’re put together and  
designed to function safely and efficiently (1 hr).  We then pivot  
and begin to tell the tale of what happens when gas stations break  
down; that is, common causes of discharge and sources of  
contamination (1 hr) and what happens in the subsurface when  
contamination is released (1 hr).  We then explore cost-effective  
strategies for pre-acquisition due diligence of closed gas station;  
that is, where would you want to look to find areas of  
contamination and what methodologies would you use and why (1 hr).
We’ll next spend some time carefully evaluating gas station cleanup  
strategies and costs, with an emphasis on trying to understand how  
to tailor a technical cleanup remedy to the anticipated reuse in  
order to save money (45 minutes).   We’ll also have a lengthy  
discussion on how cleanup costs and technologies can be seamlessly  
folded into construction, so seamlessly that in many cases it may  
be impossible to distinguish between the construction activity and  
the cleanup strategy, which could provide for dramatic cost savings  
(1 hr). To supplement that discussion, the next session will focus  
entirely on budgeting for cleanup costs and incremental  
construction costs caused by contamination (1 hr).
In the final session on the first day, US EPA officials from  
Washington D.C. and several regional offices across the country  
will discuss the federal regulatory and economic incentive programs  
that have been developed and successfully implemented over the past  
15 years to limit cost and manage legal liability at closed gas  
station reuse projects (45 minutes).  To properly frame this  
discussion, earlier in the day, Carolyn Hoskinson,  the US EPA  
Director of the Office of Underground Storage Tanks, will present  
the Keynote.
The second day will kick off with an address from one of US EPA’s  
chief economic policy analysts and advisors, who will provide a  
broad overview of economic development market conditions across the  
country as well as dozens of case studies where private and public  
sectors partners have pulled from various capital sources,  
including public financing sources, to render otherwise difficult  
projects feasible (45 minutes).  The next session will involve more  
insight and guidance from the US EPA Petroleum Brownfields program  
on regulatory assistance and agency partnering opportunities (1  
hr).   From that point forward, we’ll start to get into the various  
elements of planning, design and reuse.
We’ll have a primer on preventing vapor intrusion at redeveloped  
gas station sites (45 minutes), an important discussion on proper  
stormwater management issues (30 minutes), and insight from the  
private sector and from a state regulatory official on the use of  
deed restrictions and engineering controls to allow for residual  
contamination to remain in place, thus lowering cleanup and  
construction costs (45 minutes).
At this point, we pivot again and begin to look at specific types  
of closed gas station reuse projects.  In the first reuse session,  
we’ll have a focus on retail, commercial, and housing (50 minutes),  
in the second a focus on health care (40 minutes), in the third a  
focus on community parks and gardens, and in the fourth a focus on  
alternate energy, like CNG, solar, electric, and biodiesel (45  
minutes).  Finally, we’ll wrap up the day with important roundtable  
discussions that explore gas station redevelopment opportunities  
from the developers’ perspective (45 minutes) and then from the  
lenders’ (1 hr).
The Keynote presentation for the second day will be given by  
Elizabeth Schilling with Smart Growth America. Elizabeth is one of  
the principal authors of “From Vacancy to Vibrancy: A Guide to  
Redeveloping UST Sites through Area-wide Planning.”   Another  
featured speaker on this second day is Caley Johnson, with the US  
Dept. of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab, the principal  
author of “Guide for Identifying and Converting High-Potential  
Petroleum Brownfield Sites to Alternative Fuel Stations.”
The third and final day of the program provides an emphasis on  
liability identification, analysis, and management.  The program  
kicks off with an important policy address from the Director of  
Waste Management for the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection,  
who is intending to discuss the ongoing and future initiatives of  
the Governor Scott administration to incentivize and reward the  
investment of private capital in cleanup, redevelopment, and reuse  
of closed gas station sites (30 minutes).  The next presentation  
will be a facilitated dialogue between the largest owner of  
independent gas stations in New York City and his counsel to  
illuminate the many interconnected planning, design, engineering,  
liability, schedule, and budget issues they’ve had to overcome as  
the company converts its portfolio of gas stations sites into high- 
end retail, commercial, and mixed use projects (45 minutes).    
We’ll then work through a series of environmental legal  
presentations from some of the top private sector and state  
regulatory agency lawyers in the country (45 min., 30 min., and 45  
minutes), with a specific emphasis on the actions to take and to  
avoid in the context of redeveloping contaminated gas station sites  
specifically and contaminated construction sites generally.
The program will conclude its discussion on legal liability  
management with two in-depth presentation on environmental  
insurance.  We’ll first have a representative from AIG provide a  
general survey of the environmental insurance products that are  
available for reuse of closed gas station sites and then offer  
personal insight into the state of the environmental insurance  
marketplace (45 minutes).  In the second session, one of the most  
effective brokers we’ve ever worked with will walk the conference  
through the nuts and bolts of negotiating coverages, drafting  
endorsements, and limiting premiums (45 minutes).
In addition to the 9 US EPA representatives either attending or  
speaking, we’ll have over a dozen environmental agency  
representatives from the following states:
·         Alabama
·         Connecticut
·         Florida
·         Indiana
·         Minnesota
·         Rhode Island

A copy of the educational program is attached above, and the conference agenda can be accessed by clicking here: https:// www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/qkpccv. To register, click here: www.closedgasstationconference.com.
While we believe the educational offerings alone create tremendous  
value, we are equally excited about the networking, bridge- 
building, and business generation opportunities that will exist  
throughout the conference as a result of the diversity of  
backgrounds, perspectives, and constituencies reflected by those  
who have registered to date.
We hope to see you in Orlando this week.  However, if you can’t  
make it and would be interested in the materials, please let us know.
Best regards,
Michael

Michael R. Goldstein, Esq.
The Goldstein Environmental Law Firm, P.A.
One SE Third Avenue, Suite 2120
Miami, FL 33131
Direct Telephone: (305) 777-1682
Cell Phone: (305) 962-7669
Facsimile: (305) 777-1681
Email: mgoldstein@goldsteinenvlaw.com


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