ENABLING LEGISLATION:
The 1994 Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act (Act 451, P.A. 1994) consolidates Michigan environmental law. See: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/mcl/pdf/mcl-act-451-of-1994.pdf

The Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act (Act 381, P.A. 1996) describes the process for establishing a brownfield authority, approving brownfield plans, and financing brownfield eligible activities. See: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/mcl/pdf/mcl-act-381-of-1996.pdf

The Single Business Tax Act, Brownfield (Act 228, P.A. 1975, as amended, MCL 208.38(g)) establishes tax incentives for brownfield redevelopment. See: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/mcl/pdf/mcl-208-38g.pdf

MICHIGAN AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS:
Instructions for Preparing and Submitting Work Plans Under the Authority of the Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act, 1996 PA 381, as Amended, to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
http://www.deq.state.mi.us/documents/deq-rrd-act381-wpinstr.doc

Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act Annual Report — 2004, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
http://www.deq.state.mi.us/documents/deq-rrd-Act381Report2004.pdf

Consolidated Report on the Environmental Protection Bond Fund, Cleanup and Redevelopment Fund, and the Clean Michigan Initiative Bond Fund, Fiscal Year 2000, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
http://www.deq.state.mi.us/documents/deq-rrd-FY04ConsolidatedReport.pdf

Brownfield Projects Summary
Grand Traverse County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority
http://www.co.grand-traverse.mi.us 

Core communities in northern Michigan and the eastern Upper Peninsula include: Alpena, Baldwin, Cadillac, Cheboygan, Grayling, Ludington, Manistee, Manistique, Onaway, Pinconning, Sault Ste. Marie, and Traverse City. For a complete list of Qualified Local Government Units, go to: http://www.deq.state.mi.us/documents/deq-rrd-Qualified-LUGs.doc

 

OTHER INFORMATION:
An Assessment of Brownfield Redevelopment Policies: The Michigan Experience PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government, November 1999
www.businessofgovernment.org/pdfs/Hula.pdf

Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, September 2004.
http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/pg/fy05guidelines_final.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/pg/guidelines_2005_toc_fy05.htm

Grant Announcement: Listing of Past Awards by Fiscal Year
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Brownfield Cleanup and Redevelopment
http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/archive/pilot_arch.htm

“Urban Revitalization”
Michigan in Brief: 1998-99
http://www.michiganinbrief.org/edition06/text/issues/issue-63.htm

“Recycling Land”
From the Ground Up
Ecology Center, June/July 2000
http://www.ecocenter.org/200004/land.shtml

Citizen Assessment of the Michigan Brownfield Initiative
Michigan State University
http://www.ippsr.msu.edu/Documents/SOSSRelated/Hula.pdf

Brownfields State of the States
Charles Bartsch and Rachel Deane
Northeast-Midwest Institute, December 2002.
http://www.nemw.org/brown_stateof.pdf

CONTACTS:
For more information on Act 381 environmental work plans:
Darlene VanDale
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Phone: 989-705-3453
Email: vandaled@michigan.gov

For more information on Act 381
non-environmental work plan and the Brownfield Single Business Tax:
Vern Taylor
Michigan Economic Development Corporation
Phone: 517-373-7696
Email: taylorv.@michigan.gov

For more information on Michigan Brownfield Grants in northern Michigan:
Susan Sandell
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Phone: 231-775-3960 ext 6312
Email: sandells@michigan.gov