Programmatic Systematic Planning
Programmatic systematic planning aspects are particularly relevant for regional or corridor-oriented undertakings such as: performing inventories to establish the petroleum brownfield universe in Tacoma, Washington; redevelopment of the Delaware River Riverfront Development; The Brownfield Economic Redevelopment Project for the Northern New Jersey Port District; the Route 66 Initiative (Arizona); and UST Sites in Indian Country (Apache, Hopi [see highlight box].)
Programmatic planning can also serve the important role of bringing end users into the process. As noted in the highlight box, area-wide assessments can identify and communicate opportunities for redevelopment. If done properly, area-wide assessments inevitably involve public/private sector partners in planning end use and thus tend to involve end users in the planning process.
For example, systematic program planning could be used to:
- Empower and charter the "A" team or Reuse Team. This Reuse Team would consist of any and all stakeholders that have a stake or that can influence the reuse of local sites affected or perceived to be affected by contamination. The Reuse Team could establish an agreement with a single regulatory agency for the review and approval of reuse-related project documents and activities.
- Establish criteria for selecting candidate petroleum release sites (e.g., abandoned UST sites, transportation corridors, watersheds, aquifer recharge zones, and/or geographic regions affected by single or multiple petroleum releases) for a given revitalization program (see highlight box);
- Prepare programmatic field sampling, data management, and quality assurance plans;
- Create funding instruments to assist in revitalization or in maintaining cost-effective land use controls (International City/County Management Association 2003);
- Leverage state and federal funding resources such as Economic Development Administration grants, Department of Transportation funds, Small Business Administration loans (Northeast Midwest Institute 2005) (see highlight box)
- Link programmatic activities with regional zoning, land use planning, and economic development organizations; and,
- Conduct outreach to potential redevelopers, reusers, banks, insurers, and major and minor petroleum marketers.
- Develop analytical, sampling, and remediation tools and strategies that can be applied at similar or geographically aligned sites to maximize resources and get economic benefit from "batching" sites (see highlight box).
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