Announcements & News
Brownfields in the News:
4/22/08: Workshop to educate, help create new incentives for sustainable infrastructure
4/8/08: Indiana awarded $2M federal grant to address brownfields statewide
2/22/08: IFA approves first round of assessment through Trails and Parks Initiative
12/18/07: IFA approves first round of brownfield grants for SFY 2008
6/20/07: IFA awards $7.2 million statewide for brownfields redevelopment
Click here to view brownfield-related news articles that have appeared in publications across Indiana.
Program Announcements:
Changes to Indiana's Petroleum Remediation Grants
The Indiana Brownfields Program (Program) has changed the way that the Petroleum Remediation Grant incentive is administered, making it easier and faster for Indiana communities to assess and remediate petroleum-contaminated brownfields. The State of Indiana is now divided into seven regions, and an environmental consulting firm has been assigned to each region, based on the results of a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) process. The following is the list of the seven consulting firms selected and the region to which each has been assigned:
- Region 1: Environmental Management Consultants, Inc.
- Region 2: American Environmental Corporation
- Region 3: IWM Consulting Group, LLC
- Region 4: Keramida Environmental, Inc.
- Region 5: Quality Environmental Professionals, Inc.
- Region 6: Hull & Associates, Inc.
- Region 7: AVANT Group, Inc.
With Program oversight and community input, the consulting firm is responsible for identifying eligible site and completing work on sites within its region. $750,000 has been dedicated per region for the work. Please see the Petroleum Remediation Fact Sheet and Frequently Asked Questions for more information about the Petroleum Remediation Grant incentive, including site eligibility and allowable grant activities, as well as the Petroleum Remediation Map showing the seven regions and the Program project managers assigned to each region. If you want to learn more about this grant incentive, or if you have a site in your community that you feel could potentially benefit from this funding, please contact your region’s Program project manager.
Brownfields Tax Provisions Extended and Expanded
The “tax extenders” bill that Congress recently approved included a provision to extend the “Brownfields Expensing Deduction” through 2007 and to expand the program to include petroleum cleanups. The brownfields tax expensing law, Section 198 of the Tax Code, makes cleanup expenditures deductible in the year that the expenses were incurred. This approach, originally adopted in the Community Renewal Act of 2000, treats cleanup of “Hazardous Substances” as a “repair” to the land, rather than a “capital expenditure” that must be depreciated over time. For more information about the credit, see:
Other Announcements:
Are you a recipient of an U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grant? (Added 1/10/08)
Limited funds may be available to supplement existing Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grantees that have made loan(s) and/or subgrant(s) and substantially depleted their pool of loan funds. Request letters to U.S. EPA must be postmarked by January 28, 2008. If you have questions about RLF supplemental funding, please contact Alison Evans, U.S. EPA’s National Brownfields RLF Technical Lead, at (202) 566-2744. For more information, click here.
U.S. EPA has announced a new competition for Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants. To download the 92-page Guidelines document as a 2.8 MB PDF file, go to
Presentation information from previous workshops can be found below:
U.S. EPA Brownfields Grant Proposal Workshop - Sept. 13, 2007
Brownfields Renewal Workshop - Sept. 6, 2007
Presentations available on NALGEP's website
Project Highlights
Two former gas stations at the intersection of 25th Street and Delaware Street in the Fall Creek Place residential area of Indianapolis have been redeveloped into live-work residences.
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