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Connecticut All Grantees Meeting July 11, 2012 · 11/7/2012 · Connecticut All Grantees Meeting...
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Connecticut All Grantees Meeting July 11, 2012
Measuring Success in ACRES
Assessment, Cleanup, & Redevelopment Exchange
System (ACRES)
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Connecticut Accomplishments
• 426 Properties with Assessments Completed
• 14 Properties Cleaned Up/Ready for Re-use
• 208 Acres Cleaned Up/Ready for Re-use
• Cleanup Completions at 19 Properties (Funded)
• 3,187 Jobs Leveraged
• $406M Leveraged
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Phase I
Assessment
Phase II
Assessment
Supplemental
Assessment
Assessment
Complete
Cleanup Required
Cleanup Not Required
Ready For Re-use
Cleanup
Complete
Cleanup Started
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Assessment Grants in CT
- $14.3M since 1994
- 49 CAs
RLF Grants in CT
- $17.2M since 1994
- 21 CAs
Cleanup Grants in CT
- 11.8k M since 1994
- 48 CAs
128a Grants in CT
- $5.9M since 1994
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How Are These Successes Measured?
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Who needs to use ACRES?
What is ACRES?
When do we use ACRES?
Why do we have ACRES?
How can we get help with ACRES?
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Everyone!
• All Grantees are required to use ACRES to
input Property Profile Form data.
Who Needs to Use ACRES?
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What Is ACRES?
• Web-based reporting tool tracks your RLF
cleanup milestones, redevelopment info, jobs
and dollars leveraged, and other key data.
• Eliminates paper Property Profile Forms and
also help to achieve goals under Paperwork
Reduction Act
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When Do We Use ACRES?
• When Assessment Activities Begin
Phase 1
Phase 2
Supplemental Assessment
Cleanup Planning
• When Cleanup Activities Begin
Cleanup activities in the field
Show Cleanup Funding
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When Do We Use ACRES?
• Assessment Completion
• Cleanup Completion
Completion date (definition)
Jobs and dollars leveraged (report only once)
Match dates to cleanup grant (if any)
• Post-Cleanup
Institutional controls
Redevelopment dates, jobs, and dollars
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Why Do We Have ACRES?
The Government Performance and Results Act
(GPRA) requires federal programs to
demonstrate programmatic results for funding
received and/or requested. As such, the success
of each federal program hinges on its ability to
produce verifiable results and outcomes.
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Why Do We Have ACRES?
So what does this mean?.....
That in order to justify and continue
funding the Brownfields program we
have to collect and report data on our
accomplishments
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Did You hear Something?
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How Can I Use the Data in ACRES?
• Manage information about your brownfields
projects
Quarterly Reporting
Budget Tracking
Contractor Performance
• Build your case locally
• Show economic benefits and leveraging
• JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!
• Project tax revenue expected from public investment
• Outreach / property access
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How Can I Use the Data in ACRES?
• Writing your next EPA Brownfields grant proposal
• Programmatic Capability, Outputs and Outcomes,
Leveraging
• All funders, including EPA, like to see measurable
results
• Could also be included in transportation, housing, and
other grants
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ACRES – April 2011
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How Does EPA use the Data in ACRES?
• Documenting program success
Environmental metrics
Leveraging metrics
• Responding to:
Congressional inquiry
Administration
Press
Public
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Brownfields At A
Glance – July 2010
Brownfields Program
Analysis – Sept
2010
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Are My Data Publicly Available? Yes!
• Brownfields Grant Fact Sheet Search Tool
http://cfpub.epa.gov/bf_factsheets/index.cfm
• Cleanups in My Community (CIMC)
http://www.epa.gov/cimc
Powerful tool with robust mapping capabilities
Includes data from several EPA Programs: Brownfields,
Superfund, RCRA Corrective Action, and Federal Facilities
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Data Organization in ACRES
• Each Cooperative Agreement is one record in
ACRES
• A single property may be associated with more
than one grant
Assessment
Grant
57 Chestnut Street Arthur’s Auto
Cleanup
Grant or RLF
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Common Data Issues in CT
Different Names for Same Site
Duplicate property records
Cleanup completion date definition
Misreporting of leveraging info
Leveraged funds – Other People’s Money (not EPA)
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Recent Enhancements
• Work Package Sharing
• Data Entry for Closed Grants
• Faster Loading of Search Page
• Google Maps Function
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Coming Soon / PPF Revision:
- Additional Media
- Cost Share vs. Leveraging
- More Automation
- Quarterly Reporting??
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Quiz Time!
• How often should you enter data in ACRES?
• What types of EPA funding can be reported as
leveraged?
• How many Cooperative Agreements can be
associated with a single Property record?
• When should you go back and enter
redevelopment data?
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Questions?
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Help with ACRES?
“Contact Us” link in ACRES at top right hand corner.
Phone number and email for help.
ACRES EPA Regional Contact
Frank Gardner
617-918-1278
EPA HQ online ACRES Info and Training www.epa.gov/acres