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Building a Brownfields Partnership

NALGEP launched the "Building a Brownfields Partnership" Project, funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Regional Operations and State/Local Relations. The project worked with a coalition of local government and other brownfields leaders from across the nation to determine the value and promise of the Administration's Brownfields Action Agenda.
Project Objectives:

Identify the views of local government brownfields leaders on the value of EPA's brownfields programs and policies to those who use them at the community level;
Provide proposals for building the next phase of federal brownfields programs;
Promote new models of local-federal communication and cooperation; and
Communicate the concerns and viewpoints of local officials to EPA.

Project Activities:

Created a Brownfields Advisory Committee, comprised of local government environmental and economic development officials, to guide and oversee the project;
Conducted interviews with more than 25 local brownfields stakeholders across the nation;
Produced the report:
Building a Brownfields Partnership from the Ground Up: Local Government Views on the Value and Promise of National Brownfields Initiatives; and
Organized Washington, DC meetings for local officials to communicate project results to key federal officials at the White House, EPA, HUD, Army Corps of Engineers, and Congress.

Project Status: Completed