1. Exploring Renewable Energy on Brownfields and Landfills: RE-Powering America’s Land’s Electronic Decision Tree Tool Brownfields Learning Lounge September 3, 2015

2. Why Renewables on Potentially Contaminated Lands 2 Gain community support Leverage existing infrastructure Improve project economics through reduced land costs & tax incentives Protect open space Build sustainable land development strategy Provide low-cost, clean power to communities Reduce project cycle times with streamlined zoning and permitting

3. Assisting Stakeholders Throughout Cleanup and Development 3 RE-Powering Mapper Decision Trees Feasibility Studies Opportunities Barriers Strategies Come to a discussion on RE-Powering @ 11:30am in Astoria Room

4. Moving from Printed Version to a User Friendly Electronic Version

5. Downloadable Application 5

6. 6 Electronic Decision Tree -Considers potentially contaminated sites, landfills, underutilized sites and rooftops -Explores solar (ground mount and/or rooftop) or wind (ground mount) -Walks users through a series of Yes / No / Skip Questions -Supplements questions with additional information, tips and links to relevant resources -Generates reports of the screening results and user annotations that can be printed or imported into other documents -Data Entry Report -Summary Site Screening Report -Site Comparison Report

7. 7 Electronic Decision Tree: Site Types and Technologies

8. 8 Electronic Decision Tree: Phases of Tool -Home -Site Characteristics and Redevelopment -Redevelopment Considerations -Contamination and Landfill Issues -Load Assessment and Financial -Summary and Results

9. 9 Electronic Decision Tree: Example Question

10. 10 Electronic Decision Tree: Selection from Companion Guide

11. Electronic Decision Tree: Contamination Issues 11 Assessed? -Formal assessment? -Adverse historical uses? -Visual clues? Remediated? -Complete / Unnecessary? -In Progress / Stalled? -Impacting usable acreage?

12. Electronic Decision Tree: Landfill Issues Closure status Institutional controls Settling Compatibility with –piping / collection systems –leachate and landfill gas system Erosion control, Stormwater Management 12

13. 13 Electronic Decision Tree: Load Assessment and Financial Phase

14. 14 Electronic Decision Tree: Project Arrangements

15. 15 Electronic Decision Tree: Exploration of Project Arrangements Sell to Utility Serves Owner’s On-Site Energy Load Serves Owner’s Off-Site Energy Load Sell Power to Off-Site Buyer or Collection Of Buyers

16. 16 Program Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands Alaska Hawai'i kWh/m 2 /day Solar Resource > 6 5 -6 4 -5 3.5 - 4 <3.5 Abandoned Mine Land Brownfield RCRA Superfund Landfill Methane Outreach Program State Tracked (CA, HI, IL, MA, NJ, NY, OR, PA, TX, VA, WV) Lots of sites to further screen…

17. 17 RE-Powering Response Team RE-Powering America’s Land www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/ Regions Region 1 – New England Julieanne Sammut (sammut.julieanne@epa.gov) (617) 918-1426 Katherine Woodward (woodward.katherine@epa.gov) (617) 918-1353 Julieanne Sammut Katherine Woodward Region 2 – New York / New Jersey / PR / USVI Fernando Rosado (rosado.fernando@epa.gov) (212) 637-4346 Fernando Rosado Region 3 – Mid-Atlantic Charles B. Howland (howland.charles@epa.gov) (215) 814-2645 Charles B. Howland Region 4 -- Southeast Margaret Olson (olson.margaret@epa.gov) (404) 562-8601 Margaret Olson Region 5 -- Midwest Tom Bloom (bloom.thomas@epa.gov) (312) 886-1967 Region 6 – South Central Casey Luckett (luckett.casey@epa.gov) (214) 665-7393 Karen PeyckeKaren Peycke (peycke.karen@epa.gov) (214) 665-7273 Region 7 - Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, & Nebraska Brad Eaton (eaton.brad@epa.gov) (913) 551-7265 Brad Eaton Region 8 - Mountain and Plains Timothy Rehder (rehder.timothy@epa.gov) (303) 312-6293 Timothy Rehder Region 9 – Pacific Southwest Andria Benner (benner.andria@epa.gov) (415) 972-3189 Andria Benner ZiZi Searles ZiZi Searles (searles.zizi@epa.gov) (415) 972-3178 Region 10 Pacific Northwest Carolyn GangmarkCarolyn Gangmark (gangmark.carolyn@epa.gov) (206) 553-4072 Headquarters Adam KlingerAdam Klinger (klinger.adam@epa.gov) (202) 566-0546klinger.adam@epa.gov Marc ThomasMarc Thomas (thomas.marc@epa.gov) (202) 566-0791thomas.marc@epa.gov Liability Questions Phil PagePhil Page (page.phillip@epa.gov) (202) 564-4211page.phillip@epa.gov