The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s Brownfields and Land Renewal Program is planning an outreach conference on March 1, 2012 to be hosted by the City of Hampton at their conference facility located at 1 Franklin Street, Hampton, Virginia.

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Topics will include Brownfield financing, landfill redevelopment, subslab depressurization, mold, grant opportunities, dewatering groundwater at contaminated sites, success stories, and environmental cleanup topics, all coupled with economic redevelopment and land revitalization.   Representatives from DEQ, the EPA, New Jersey Institute of Technology (EPA's Technical Assistance to Brownfields contractor), Brownfields consultants and local government representatives will be participating in the conference. 

PARKING: You are encouraged to use the free public parking garage at 555 Settlers Landing Road ( http://g.co/maps/4kft4 ) which is less than one block from the facility. 

The doors will open at 8:30 for registration and informal introductions and the conference will start at 9:00.  Our luncheon speaker will be historian and author, John V. Quartein whose talk will be on one of Hampton's largest and most well known redevelopments, Fort Monroe.  John has been involved in the redeployment of Fort Monroe for a number of years as well as other revitalization projects and the title of his talk will be  "Fort Monroe: Freedom's Fortress". 

Lunch sponsored REMSA, Inc. by will be provided for all attendees and speakers as long as you register by February 24, 2012 so we can get a final headcount.  The conference will wrap up by 4:00 however time will be available for questions and answers to specific situations. 

Please note that the conference capacity is 150 attendees so if you are interested in attending please sign up early in case we reach capacity. 

We ask that you complete the registration so we can get a final headcount for the lunch and so that we can provide e-mail updates prior to the conference for the finalized agenda, last minute updates and an upcoming webinar. 

 Thank you and if you have any questions, please contact Meade Anderson at 804-698-4179 or j.meade.anderson@deq.virginia.gov  .