John Podgurski, USEPA Region I and Jim Rocco, Vita Nuova LLC
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Worksheet 1, Worksheet 2, Worksheet 3, Worksheet 4, Worksheet 5, Worksheet 6, Worksheet 7
Description:
The June Sustainability Series webinar will be a presentation of the PREPARED workbook, developed in USEPA Region I. This revolutionary workbook is designed to help government entities facilitate the cleanup and revitalization of contaminated properties. Built around a risk management framework, the workbook utilizes worksheets to help municipalities identify potential obstacles to redevelopment and evaluate appropriate actions to address potential risks and liabilities to move properties forward toward redevelopment. This workbook will be important for individuals associated with government entities and project managers, environmental consultants, and other working with government entities to facilitate the redevelopment process.
The webinar will be led by John Podgurski, Land Revitalization Coordinator for USEPA Region I and Jim Rocco, primary author for Vita Nuova.
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Leslie A. Creane, AICP is the Director of Planning and Zoning for the Town of Hamden, Connecticut. She received a BA in Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University and an M.Arch from the Yale University School of Architecture. Leslie is the primary editor of the first blended Form- and Use-Based Zoning Regulations in the State of Connecticut. She has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences on Smart Growth, Urban Design, Brownfield Restoration, Sustainable Development and New Urbanism. Trained as a community organizer, Ms. Creane has also held positions as an urban designer, architectural designer, project manager, and housing policy analyst. She has been a Teaching Fellow at Yale University and an adjunct professor at the University of New Haven. Ms. Creane has been a guest juror and lecturer at the University of Bridgeport, Southern Connecticut State University, and the University of Hartford. She was an executive board member for Habitat for Humanity; and a juror at the Yale School of Architecture. As an architecture student Ms. Creane was the lead architectural designer on an Inter-Disciplinary Community Development Team for the Chase Bank Urban Development Competition, which won the first place, and was awarded a $25,000 grant allowing continued work on community development and urban design projects in New Haven.
Mr. Michaud is an accomplished regulatory and transactional attorney in the firm's Energy and Environmental practice areas and has expanded the renewable energy practice within those areas. With fifteen years combined law firm and in-house counsel experience, Mr. Michaud has extensive knowledge in renewable energy project development, power plant development and permitting, energy efficiency, and electric utility law. He is formally the Managing and Lead Counsel for the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund where he represented the Fund before various state and federal regulatory and administrative law tribunals, including the Department of Public Utility Control, Siting Council, Department of Environmental Protection, NEPOOL Participants Committee, and the Freedom of Information Commission. Mr. Michaud also drafted and negotiated complex project finance agreements,
power purchase agreements, and other legal instruments including engineering, procurement and construction contracts. He established project documentation and compliance requirements, including reporting requirements for the use of State Energy Program (SEP) funding allocated by the Federal Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).