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Brownfield Incentive Marketing in Ohio

Amy Yersavich, Ohio EPA

ASTSWMO Brownfields and Superfund Symposium

Brownfields Benefits and Marketing Session

Thursday, August 4, 2016

First, there was CLEAN OHIO!

• Beginning in 2001 and running until early 2013, the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund provided over $400MM in grant funding to 386 brownfield projects throughout Ohio. (Four year state bond issue voted for twice. Total return on investment = 10.99%. Over 9,000 jobs created and almost 9,500 jobs retained.)

• Clean Ohio provided communities with Assessment grants up to $200,000 and clean up grants up to $3.5MM

All Good Things Must Come to an End….

The final round of grants were awarded in early 2013, thus ending over a decade where Ohio cities, counties, townships, villages and port authorities had the opportunity to address some of the most problematic/complicated brownfields in their jurisdictions and, in many cases, see very successful redevelopment occur. The big question was ….

WHAT’S NEXT????

What’s Next???

• Well….we knew there wasn’t going to be another Clean Ohio Fund –or at least not for a long while. JobsOhio was replacement but, as name implies, funding was tied to committed end users with certain types and numbers of jobs.

• One thing we could do fairly easily (no bond issues, new legislation or giant boulder moving needed) was increase the amount of our 128(a) funds dedicated to providing assessments.

Ohio’s TBA Program

• We began devoting 50% of Ohio EPA’s annual federal brownfield grant to conducting Targeted Brownfield Assessments or TBAs. In addition, Ohio EPA receives approximately $100,000 a year from the state of Ohio budget for TBA work.

• FFY15’s Total TBA Budget: $580,000

• # of TBAs conducted by end of FFY15: 33

• FFY16’s Total TBA Budget: $550,000

Time to step up our marketing!

With the increase in funding (prior to FFY15 we devoted 20%-25% of our 128(a) funds to TBAs), we needed to step up our marketing of this newer, larger incentive. With the Clean Ohio Fund available until 2013, most communities weren’t really aware of the TBA program, especially since during the Clean Ohio era we focused on providing TBAs to help potential Clean Ohio applicants get Phase Is and sampling needed to qualify for the grants.

Brownfield Funding Workshops

We had started putting on day-long workshops in counties and regions throughout the state a few years prior and decided we needed to offer more of these workshops where we not only advertised our TBA program but also the other local, state and federal brownfield incentives that communities could take advantage of.

Local, State & Federal Resources to Redevelop Blighted Properties WorkshopExample Agenda

9:30 – 10:00 Registration & Continental Breakfast sponsored by ABC Environmental

10:00 – 10:30 Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) ProgramBlase Leven, Kansas State University TAB Program

10:30 – 11:00 U.S. EPA Brownfield GrantsKarla Auker, U.S. EPA, R5

11:00 – 11:15 Rural Community Assistance ProgramWayne Cannon, Great Lakes RCAP

11:15 – 11:35 County Land Utilization Corp., aka Land BanksIldi Pallos, Ohio EPA

11:35 – 12:00 Brownfield Success in PiquaChris Schmiesing, Piqua City Planner

12:00 – 12:45 Networking Lunch sponsored by XYZ Environmental

12:45 – 1:00 Introduction to Ohio's Voluntary Action Program (VAP)Martin Smith, Ohio EPA

1:00 – 1:25 OH Development Service Agency’s Brownfield ProgramSusan Miller and Annie van Blaricom, ODSA

1:25 – 1:40 Jobs Ohio Revitalization Program –Diana Rife, JobsOhio1:40 – 2:00 Targeted Brownfield Assessments

Katie Courtright, Ohio EPA2:00 – 2:10 Putting It All Together – Amy Yersavich, Ohio EPA

Identify BrownfieldsFor Redevelopment

Phase IAssessment

OhioBrownfield Inventory

U.S. EPAAssessment

Grant

HelpFromTAB

Phase IIAssessment

Ohio EPATBA

U.S. EPAAssessment

Grant

Ohio EPATBA

ODSABrownfield

Loans

TABBITTool

Jobs Ohio Revitalization

Grant

Demolition(as part of Cleanup)

Cleanup

ODSABrownfield

Loans

U.S. EPACleanupGrant

ODSABrownfield

Loans

“Green –up”Storm Water Infrastructure

Loan

Jobs Ohio Revitalization

Grant

Jobs Ohio Revitalization

Loan

Don’t forget OEPA’s Community Brownfield Funding, epa.ohio.gov/derr/SABR/CommunityBrownfieldFundingResources.aspx, for other possible funding options. Contact [email protected] for assistance.

Direct Marketing

• In person meetings with community officials (in larger cities meeting with brownfield coordinator, economic development director, land bank director, etc).

• Provide more detailed information on our TBA program (also Grant Technical Assistance incentive) and some of our Development Department’s incentives.

• More time to answer questions about specific sites they are dealing with and suggest what brownfield incentive(s) can help them best.

Community Consults

• Just began conducting these, starting at our Ohio Brownfield Conference in April 2016.

• Have the community complete a property information form for a brownfield site(s) they are having trouble working on. Questions like:– Age, condition of buildings on property?

– Ownership status? Abandoned or underutilized? Access status?

– Phase I or other assessment work been performed at any point?

– End use anticipated? Property attributes?

– Pictures, maps, other info?

Community Consults

• Set up in-person meeting and/or conference call with community. Ohio EPA tries to bring, along with brownfield staff, U.S. EPA Westlake Office brownfield coordinator, TAB coordinator and a staffer from Ohio’s Development Dept.

• Follow-up with additional meetings/conference calls, visioning sessions, workshops – depending on the needs of the community and the site(s) they are focused on.

Questions????