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| Environmental Protection Agency
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| EPA
Home Page - "The
mission of the United States Environmental Protection Agency is to protect
human health and to safeguard the natural environment — air, water, and
land — upon which life depends." |
| EPA
Region 1 Home Page - United
States Environmental Protection Agency - Region 1 serves Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. |
| EPA
Region 1 Brownfields Page - Under this
program, EPA-New England is conducting "Targeted Site Assessments" at Brownfields
sites in New England. A Brownfields site is a vacant or under utilized
industrial or commercial facility where redevelopment
is complicated by actual or perceived contamination. |
| EPA
Headquarters (Washington, D.C.) Brownfields Page - This
program encourages economic development and cooperation to prevent, assess,
safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. |
| EPA
Brownfields Laws & Regulations - This
link contains brownfields related laws and regulations that can be downloaded. |
| EPA
Clu-in (Hazardous Waste Clean-up Information) - This
site provides information about innovative treatment technology to the
hazardous waste remediation community. It describes programs, organizations,
publications, and other tools for federal and state personnel, consulting
engineers, technology developers and vendors, remediation contractors,
researchers, community groups, and individual citizens. |
| EPA
Node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (NSDI) - This
node provides a pathway to find information about geospatial data available
from the EPA. Geospatial data is used in Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) to identify the geographic location and characteristics of natural
or man-made features and boundaries on the earth. |
| EPA
Maps on Demand - These World Wide Web
(WWW)-based mapping applications generate maps that display environmental
information for the entire United States. |
| Brownfields
Program |
| NEDDS
- Economic Development Data System - The
New Hampshire Division of Economic Development and its Office of Business
and Industrial Development (OBID) work to expand the economy of the State
and the opportunities for its citizens by assisting existing New Hampshire
industry and promoting New Hampshire as an excellent place in which to
do business. |
The
Brownfields Center (TBC) - The Brownfields
Center (TBC) was founded on the recognized need to integrate multiple disciplines
to realize potential benefits
from revitalizing idle industrial sites. TBC brings
together a variety of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and University
of Pittsburgh to study relationships among Brownfield development, urban
infrastructure renewal, economic development and the quality of life, in
order to support the process of returning idle industrial sites to productive
uses. It is the mission of TBC to become a catalyst for the development
of Brownfield sites by facilitating the removal of barriers to market entry
for potentially interested parties. |
Institute
for Responsible Management - The Institute
for Responsible Management is chartered to "achieve effective collaboration
and cooperation between the public
and private sectors on public policy issues relating,
but not limited, to environmental, public safety and health concerns." |
| State
Legislation re: The Brownfields Program |
| Office of State Planning |
| New
Hampshire Office of State Planning - The
Office of State Planning (OSP) is a part of the Executive Department within
the Office of the Governor. A few of the OSP's requirements are to
plan for the orderly development of the state and the wise management of
the state's resources, encourage and assist planning, growth management,
and development activities of cities and towns and groups of cities and
towns, and administer federal and State grant-in-aid programs assigned
to the Office by statute or executive order. |
| Community
Development Block Grant Program - This
web site provides information on housing, homelessness, community development
and the planning processes, and provides forums for information exchange
on these topics. |
| United
States Department of Housing and Urban Development - The
mission of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is 'to
help people create communities of opportunity.' |
| EPA's Hazardous Waste Clean-up
Information |
| EPA
Clu-in (Hazardous Waste Clean-up Information) - This
site provides information about innovative treatment technology to the
hazardous waste remediation community. It describes programs, organizations,
publications, and other tools for federal and state personnel, consulting
engineers, technology developers and vendors, remediation contractors,
researchers, community groups, and individual citizens. |
| Site
Remediation Technologies - Various
documents to be viewed and downloaded regarding remediation technologies. |
| Web
Sites Related to Remediation Technologies - Additional
sites on the World Wide Web (WWW) related to remediation technologies such
as the Ground Water Remediation Technology Center (GWRTAC), U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers Innovative Technology Program, and the National Defense Center
for Environmental Excellence (NDCEE). |
| Site
Characterization - Various documents
to be viewed and downloaded regarding site characterization. |
| Environmental
Business Councils of New England - Directory
of the Environmental Business Councils of New England. |
| Miscellaneous |
| The
Water
Science and Technology Board - Established
within the National Research Council, the Board's objective is to improve
the scientific and technological basis for resolving important questions
and issues associated with the efficient management and use of water resources. |
| The
Hydrogeologist Home Page - A collection
of hundreds of links to hydrogeological organizations, software and data
repositories, publications and other resources of potential use to hydrogeologists. |
| The
National Ground Water Association - Provides
professional and technical leadership in the advancement of the groundwater
industry and in the protection, promotion and responsible development and
use of ground water resources. |
| The
United States Geological Survey Global Land Information System - The
Global Land Information System (GLIS) is an interactive computer system
developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for scientists seeking sources
of information about the Earth's land surfaces. |
| EPA's
Center for Environmental Information and Statistics, a one stop
source of data and information on environmental quality, status and trends. |
| The following links are to the
statutes upon which the Groundwater Protection Rules Env-Ws 410 are based. |
| Water
Pollution & Waste Disposal 485-A:1 - The purpose of this chapter
is to protect water supplies, to prevent pollution in the surface and groundwaters
of the state and to prevent nuisances and potential health hazards. |
| Water
Discharge Permits 485-A:13 - "It shall be unlawful for any person or
persons to discharge or dispose of any sewage or waste to
the surface water or groundwater of the state without first obtaining a
written permit from the department of environmental services...." |
| Drinking
Water Rules 485-:3,X - "The commissioner shall adopt under RSA
541-A, following public hearing, drinking water rules
and primary drinking water standards which are necessary to protect the
public health and which shall apply to all public water systems..." |
| Groundwater
Protection Act 485-C:6 - "The commissioner shall establish and
adopt ambient groundwater quality standards for regulated contaminants
which adversely affect human health or the environment..." |
| Groundwater
Protection Act 485-C:13 - The purpose of a groundwaterrelease detection
permit shall be to monitor groundwater for early detection of any impact
to groundwater quality. |
| Groundwater
Permit Fee 485-A:13-a - "Any person, except for state, and local governments,
including counties, and political subdivisions, issued a groundwater permitunder
RSA 485-A:13, I(a) shall pay to the department a fee of $1,000 for the
5-year permit...." |
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