TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT:

Please click here for the registration form.

You may also register by calling 212-431-2135.

COST:

Attendance with no CLE credit: $125.00

Attendance with CLE credit (5 CLE credits in Professional Practice): $325.00

Refunds: Written notice of cancellation must be received by New York Law School no later than January 7, 2008 for refund of registration fee.

SCHEDULE:

January 11, 2008  

8:30 a.m.–9:15 a.m.  Registration and Breakfast

9:15 a.m.–9:30 a.m.  Welcome:

                                    Professor Andrew R. Berman

                                    Director, Center for Real Estate Studies

Session 1

9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Overview of the New York State Brownfield Cleanup Program                     

            Speakers:

Lawrence Schnapf, Adjunct Professor, New York Law School            

Val Washington, Deputy Commissioner, NYS DEC Office of Remediation & Materials Management               

1 CLE credit in Professional Practice

10:30 a.m.–10:45 a.m.  Break

Session 2

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Brownfield Tax Credits- Are the Benefits Too Generous?

            Speakers:

10:45 a.m.-11:10 a.m.Philip S. Bousquet, Esq., Green & Seifter, Attorneys, PLLC

11:10 a.m.-11:35 a.m. Steven A. Taylor, Associate Legislative Analyst, New York State Senate Finance

11:35 a.m.-12:00p.m. Urvashi Kaul, Assistant Vice President, NYC Economic Development Corporation

Adjunct Faculty, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University

 1 CLE credit in Professional Practice

12:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m.  Lunch

Session 3

1:15 p.m.–2:15 p.m. The NYC “e” Designation Program and Restrictive Declarations as Cleanup Tools

            Speakers:

Dan Cole, Deputy Director, NYC DEP, BEPA

Mark D. London, Partner, M.D. London Associates, LLC

1 CLE credit in Professional Practice

Session 4

2:15 p.m.–3:15 p.m.  Alternatives to Remediating Contaminated Sites in NYC

            Speakers:

Anne Hohenstein, Executive Director, New York Environmental Protection & Spill Compensation Fund, Office of the State Comptroller

Kevin McCarty, Vice President, Director, Site Investigations, HDR | LMS

Mark McIntyre, Special Counsel, Mayor’s Office of Environmental Coordination

1 CLE credit in Professional Practice

 3:15- p.m.–3:35 p.m. Break

Session 5

3:35 p.m.–4:35 p.m. Sustainable Development & Brownfields

            Speakers:

Michael B. Gerrard, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP

Sarah Lansdale, AICP, Executive Director, Sustainable Long Island

E. Gail Suchman, Environmental Practice Group, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

1 CLE credit in Professional Practice

Redeveloping Brownfields in New York: Where Do We Go From Here? is a cutting-edge symposium presented by the Center for Real Estate Studies at New York Law School and cosponsored with the Environmental Business Association of New York State and the Environmental Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. This symposium will address a wide-range of difficult issues frequently encountered when seeking to remediate and redevelop contaminated sites in the New York metropolitan area, including recent guidance and application procedures for the NYS Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP), legislative proposals for amending the BCP tax credits, case studies on tax credits reimbursements awarded to date, how to interweave the NYC DEP “e” designation program with the BCP or other NYSDEC remediation programs, alternative mechanisms for remediating sites that are not eligible for the BCP, financial incentives for petroleum-contaminated sites and green buildings, and how to work with local community groups to plan and promote sustainable redevelopment . The New York Law School Law Review will publish a symposium issue comprised of papers from this conference.  

Should you require special accommodations, please contact Melissa Rumbold, Associate Director of the Center for Real Estate Studies, at 212-431-2135.  New York Law School has been certified by the New York State Board of Continuing Legal Education as an Accredited Provider of Continuing Legal Education in the State of New York.  This program is approved for newly admitted and experienced attorneys.

CLE inquiries for this program may be addressed to Melissa Rumbold at the Center for Real Estate Studies:           212-431-2135 or mrumbold@nyls.edu.  New York Law School has a financial aid policy for CLE programs.