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Weekly Update

20 July 2009

 

 

*	Funding for HUD Brownfields Programs Restored
*	Upper Mississippi River Basin Association Meeting
*	Visions of a Sustainable Mississippi River Conference

 

 

Funding for HUD Brownfields Programs Restored

 

The House Transportation-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee allocated $25
million to the Brownfields Economic Development Initiative (BEDI)
program, and $6 million to HUD Section 108.  After the Obama
Administration's budget "zeroed" both programs, the National
Brownfields Coalition wrote letters to the respective House
<http://www.nemw.org/images/HUD%20brownfields%20budget%20follow-up%20l
tr%20house.pdf>  and Senate
<http://www.nemw.org/images/HUD%20brownfields%20budget%20follow-up%20l
tr%20senate.pdf>  appropriations committees.  The letters call
attention to the unique role these programs play in financing large
scale redevelopment projects, including site preparation not funded by
the EPA Brownfields Program.  The $25 million for the BEDI Program
brings the program back to the level of funding typical of the years
2002-2005.

 

Contact Evans
<mailto:epaull at nemw.org?subject=HUD%20Brownfields%20Program%20Funding%
20Restoration>  Paull (202/329-4282) at the Northeast-Midwest
Institute.

 

 

Upper Mississippi River Basin Association Meeting

 

The Upper Mississippi River Basin Association (UMRBA) has announced
the agenda for its August 4-6 meetings
<http://www.umrba.org/meetings.htm>  in Peoria, Illinois.

 

The UMRBA's goal is to facilitate dialogue and cooperative action
regarding water and related land resource issues in the Upper
Mississippi River Basin region.  Issues addressed by the UMRBA include
nonpoint pollution, water quality planning and management, inter-basin
diversions, cost-sharing strategies, water project financing, sediment
and erosion, hazardous spills, toxic pollution, habitat restoration,
navigation capacity, channel maintenance, flood response and recovery,
floodplain management, wetland protection, hydropower development and
licensing, and drought planning.

 

For more information about the meetings contact Margie Daniels
<mailto:mdaniels at umrba.org?subject=August%20Meeting>  (651/224-2880)
at the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association.

 

 

Visions of a Sustainable Mississippi River Conference

 

The Visions of a
<http://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/mississippiriver/index.html>
Sustainable Mississippi River Conference will be held in Collinsville,
Illinois, from August 10-13.  According to the hosts (The National
Great Rivers Research and Education Center, and The Nature
Conservancy), the conference "will attract diverse participants with
interest in our nation's largest river, including stakeholders in the
recreational, navigation, and agricultural sectors, researchers, and
natural resource professionals."  The conference will have four focus
areas:

 

*	ecosystem services and economic value;
*	flood plain connectivity, flood control and hydrologic regime;
*	ethanol production, and
*	clean water uses and threats.

 

The conference will include a session, "Policy Forum:  Presentations
to Elected Officials and Other Decision Makers," on the last morning
of the conference.  The goal of that session is to summarize the
proceedings of the conference, and present key policy issues to an
audience of elected officials and other decision makers governing the
Mississippi River basin.

 

Contact Mark
<mailto:mgordon at nemw.org?subject=Mississippi%20River%20Conference>
Gorman (202/464-4015) at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.

 

 

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