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1. Region: Atlanta
2. Project:
The Atlanta Regional Team of the Partnership for Regional Livability is focused on three discrete, but related projects:
What binds these three projects is that they all deal with aspects of the larger "regional livability" debate and all fall within the mandate of the new Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA).
The Chattahootchee Riverway project, which has enjoyed broad, multi-sector bi-partisan support, received a recent boost when Governor Barnes announced a solid commitment to open space preservation, and linked it to his commitment to sensible growth. The Mixed Income Housing Initiative evolved from the recently released ReSettling Atlanta program, a joint effort of Atlanta's leading businesses and community organizations along with city and country government. Recognition of the value of this effort also received a recent boost when support to capitalize the necessary financing was announced by the Community Development Financial Institutions program of the federal government.
This request is for the Empowering GRTA project the purpose of which is to help the GRTA board and staff to quickly identify transportation solutions to achieve cleaner air and, over a longer period of time, establish a work plan for its broader mission of statewide land use and comprehensive planning.
3. Status of Reverse RFP:
The Atlanta team seeks guidance for how to turn this request for partnership into a reverse RFP.
4. Assessment of Ripeness of the Project:
With regards to the issues of livability and sustainable growth in the Atlanta region, the creation of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority stands as the single most important recent development. Metropolitan Atlanta's transportation problems were the catalyst for political efforts to pass legislation creating the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA) and to endow it with the powers reserved for the Governor's Development Council (created by the 1980 Georgia Planning Act, but never operational). The development of GRTA is moving extremely quickly and the projects described in this request are at the top of its agenda.
5. Capacity of the Regional Team:
The Atlanta Regional Leadership Team includes a GRTA Board member and a senior staff member. With both board and staff involvement in GRTA, the Regional Team is well positioned to implement the Empower GRTA project.
6. Assessment of the Quality of Regional Partnership.
GRTA enjoys support from numerous sectors, including the Governor's office, the Georgia Legislature, the Georgia National Congressional delegation, and the local business and NGO communities. GRTA is expanding its base of support by building into its process three Advisory Councils, which will be stakeholder groups representing local governments, the business community and NGO interests. Many directly involved with GRTA, including Board members and staffers, have expressed enthusiasm for PRL's assistance. Still, some GRTA decisions are unlikely to be popular with local county officials and others.
7. Current Federal Involvement:
GRTA has already received federal assistance from DOT and elsewhere with specific transportation needs. EPA has assisted the Georgia Environmental Protection Division with the SIP and has assisted GRTA with development of modeling processes. GRTA staff and Board have had extensive talks with FHWA and FTA at the regional and federal level. Jeff Rader and John Sibley have discussed various options for the development of the "Reverse RFP" with Linda Lawson of USDOT and with Harriet Tregoning of USEPA.
8. Desired Federal Involvement:
The Atlanta Regional team is seeking a technical assistance partnership with PRL that could involve the creation of a federal team to respond to the evolving needs and opportunities presented by GRTA. At this point, the Atlanta Team seeks a conference call with representatives from relevant departments within EPA and USDOT to determine how the federal government might respond to GRTA's immediate need for help with the State SIP. Descriptions of this and other potential projects which would fall under a technical assistance partnership include:
1. Region: Atlanta
2. Project:
The Atlanta Regional Team of the Partnership for Regional Livability is focused on three discrete, but related projects:
What binds these three projects is that they all deal with aspects of the larger "regional livability" debate and all fall within the mandate of the new Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA).
The purpose of the Empowering GRTA project is to help the GRTA board and staff to quickly identify transportation solutions to achieve cleaner air and, over a longer period of time, establish a work plan for its broader mission of statewide land use and comprehensive planning.
The purpose of the Chattahoochee Riverway project is to create a 160-mile, near-continuous ribbon of green running diagonally across the state from the North Georgia Mountains to Columbus, protecting safe drinking water and enhancing communities with recreational and natural lands. The Trust for Public Land is leading the negotiations for the Chattahoochee Riverway project in partnership with the Nature Conservancy to acquire an average 500 feet of natural buffer along the river. Land will be protected through donations, easements, and acquisition. Once acquired, the properties will be turned over to local, state, and federal park management agencies. The Chattahoochee Riverway Protection project is part of a broader vision to combat sprawl and to protect open space, parkland and watersheds in metro-Atlanta.
The purpose of the Mixed Income Communities project is to insert the critical issues of affordable housing and jobs/housing balance into public discourse about the region's future. Because the GRTA project has not yet determined what specifically it is asking of the federal government, it is not part of this request. Because the Mixed Income Communities projects does not yet have the official blessing of GRTA, it is not part of this request. The hope is that at some point in the future all three projects will be integrated under the GRTA project.
3. Status of Reverse RFP:
Using the outcomes from the pre-Atlanta federal regional meeting, the Atlanta Team intends to bring a draft one or more reverse RFPs for PRL's October meeting for peer review and discussion.
4. Assessment of Ripeness of the Project:
With regards to the issues of livability and sustainable growth, the creation of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority stands as the single most important recent development in the Atlanta region. One part of GRTA's mission is land use planning. The Chattahoochee River is an important entry point for this planning.
The Chattahoochee River provides drinking water for half of all Georgians and is the most significant natural resource in metro-Atlanta. It is also part of the basin that is the subject of negotiations to allocate water between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. For all its significance, the Chattahoochee is in grave peril. It was named one of the ten "most threatened" rivers in America. Runoff, raw sewage, and toxins foul the water south of Atlanta, and within three years, development will claim virtually all the river land in metro-Atlanta.
Local government and NGO officials have been working to acquire and protect land along the Chattahoochee for many years. The initiative got a boost last year from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who secured $25 million in federal funds to protect land along the river. Former Governor Zell Miller and former Lt. Governor Pierre Howard assisted in securing another $15 million in state funds.
This year saw the launching of the Chattahoochee River Land Protection Campaign, spearheaded by a coalition of environmentalists and government officials. Just recently, Governor Roy Barnes made two important announcements related to the Chattahoochee Riverway. First, Governor Barnes encouraged every county in Georgia to protect 20% of its land base from development. Secondly, the Governor announced that the state would expend surplus funds to acquire land along the Chattahoochee. On another front, the City of Atlanta is poised to fulfill the terms a recent lawsuit, which includes expending $25 million to acquire land along the Chattahoochee and South Rivers and all their tributaries in a 14 county region.
5. Capacity of the Regional Team:
The Atlanta Regional Team is well positioned to deliver on the Chattahoochee Riverway project. Atlanta Regional Team member organizations, the Georgia Conservancy and the Turner Foundation, have worked extensively on Chattahoochee preservation efforts. Both work closely with the Trust for Public Land, the lead NGO on acquiring and protecting land along the Chattahoochee. The Georgia Conservancy is on the Coordinating Committee which provides oversight for the project, in addition to the Trust for Public Land: the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, and private foundation staff.
Atlanta Regional Team members are also well-connected to GRTA which has endorsed the Chattahoochee Riverway project. The Atlanta PRL team includes a GRTA Board member and a senior staff member.
6. Assessment of the Quality of Regional Partnership.
The Chattahoochee Riverway initiative enjoys support from a wide assortment of NGO and government agencies. The partners include the National Park Service, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Atlanta Regional Commission, the Trust for Public Land, the Nature Conservancy, the Georgia Conservancy, the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, the City of Atlanta, the City of Columbus, the City of Douglasville, nine local counties and many others.
Additionally, the Woodruff Foundation has committed $25 million to the capital campaign. The Capital Campaign Committee, Chaired by Roy Richards, CEO of Southwire Company, consists of twenty of Georgia's most prominent business leaders, including Allen Franklin, Georgia Power; Lindsay Thomas, Georgia Chamber of Commerce; Ray Anderson, Interface, Inc.; James Kennedy, Cox Enterprises, and others.
There is bipartisan support for the project in Congress. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has been a strong supporter of the campaign to protect the Chattahoochee. The successor to his House seat, Congressman Johnny Isakson, has been a member of the Capital Campaign Committee. Both Senators Cleland and Coverdell have given their endorsement and helped shepherd the appropriation through Congress with the help of Congressmen Nathan Deal, Mac Collins and John Lewis.
7. Current Federal Involvement:
Current federal involvement in the Chattahoochee Riverway project has been and remains extensive, including aide from the Georgia Congressional delegation and the Department of the Interior's National Park Service, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Army Environmental Institute, and the EPA.
In the near future, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt will visit the region to discuss federal involvement in the project. The Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area is an important link in the Riverway, and the National Park Service has been part of the Coordinating Committee from the outset. The Trust for Public Land is working closely with the NPS to acquire land in the 46-mile section of the river from Lake Lanier to Atlanta, where there is intense pressure from development. The Corps of Engineers controls easements along 20 miles of the river, as well as the shores of Lake Lanier and West Point Lake; and there have been discussions related to access points, parking, and other issues in these areas. The regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency has helped to develop GIS support.
8. Desired Federal Involvement:
The Atlanta Regional team would like to build a PRL federal support team for the Chattahoochee Riverway project. The Atlanta team is seeking assistance in the following specific areas:
9. The Regional Federal Representatives Desired for a Federal Meeting Concerning the Chattahoochee Riverway
George Martin Supervisor US Forest Service 1755 Cleveland Highway Gainesville, GA 30501 (770) 536-0541
John Hankinson Regional Administrator, Region 4 US Environmental Protection Agency 61 Forsyth Street, NW Atlanta, GA 30303 (404) 562-8357
Suzanne Lewis Superintendent National Park Service Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area 1978 Island Ford Parkway Atlanta, GA 30350-3400 (770) 399-8074 x221
Jerry Belson National Park Service Atlanta Federal Center, 1924 Building 100 Alabama Street, SW Atlanta, GA 30303 (404) 562-3148
Rebecca R. Rubin Director Army Environmental Policy Institute Georgia Institute of Technology 430 10th Street, NW Suite S-206 Atlanta, GA 30318-5768 (404) 892-3099 x298
Gary W. McConnell Director Georgia Emergency Management Agency PO Box 18055 Atlanta, GA 30316-0055 (404) 635-7001
Sam Hamilton US Fish and Wildlife Service 1875 Century Blvd., #403 Atlanta, GA 30345 (404) 679-4000
David Huckabee Rural Development Manager, USDA 12 Felton Place, Suite A Cartersville, GA 30120 (770) 386-3393
Dennis Barnett South Atlantic Division Office US Army Corps of Engineers 77 Forsyth Street, SW Atlanta, GA 30303-3490 (404) 562-5225
1. Project: Community Capital Investment Initiative (CCII):
The purpose of the CCII is to create a mechanism to engage business, community, and government leadership in the use of market forces and access to capital to reduce poverty and create healthy and prosperous communities in the 46 communities in the Bay Area with concentrated persistent poverty. CCII will focus on identifying and encouraging completion of keystone housing, commercial, industrial, and business developments that will create significant deal-flow and lead to economic, social, and environmental benefits in the targeted communities. The Bay Area Alliance Steering Committee for CCII has agreed to a basic Work Plan and Time Line (See below) and a nomination process for the Business, Community and Government Councils which will carry out its mission.
The key elements of the Work Plan are:
a) Develop a set of economic, environmental and equity due diligence criteria to evaluate keystone developments (Target for completion of Criteria by 12/99)
b) Develop a new set of tools to enable existing low-income residents of communities to have financial equity in keystone developments, to prevent displacement (As soon as possible).
c) Develop a RFP process for keystone developments to apply to CCII (Target for RFP to solicit proposals is 1/00) d) Assembling the package of financing and capacity to enable capital to flow to 3-5 pilot keystone developments by 6/00)
2. Status of Reverse RFP: CCII has had strong participation from HUD Community Builders from their regional office in San Francisco. An initial take at reverse-RFP is being drafted and should be ready for review within the next two weeks. As conceived today, the reverse-RFP would be an Omnibus MOU providing a context for each appropriate federal agency to sign on to and designate their participation.
3. Assessment of Ripeness of the Project:
The Community Capital Investment Initiative tests the premise that greater collaboration and learning among mainstream business, community development, and government leadership can encourage smart growth and sustainable development in the targeted communities. This premise has been vetted extensively throughout the Bay Area. The current work plan reflects input and support from stakeholders from the economic development, environmental, and social equity communities, as well as local government representatives. There is broad support for the premise and the plan. There are also immediate opportunities related to CRA, HUD Community Builders, etc.
4. Capacity of the Regional Team:
The CCII project has been spearheaded by the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development. The Bay Area Alliance Executive Committee is made up of leadership from the Bay Area Council, Urban Habitat Program, the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Sierra Club, and PG&E. It is in liaison with and was formed as an outgrowth of the President's Council on Sustainable Development.
This leadership team has created a process to move forward the premise of CCII, something that did not seem likely to happen without their leadership. They kept a broad array of participants at the table throughout the process, and, in fact, continually broadened participation. The right types of leaders are engaged in CCII to branch out and draw additional champions from each of the Three E perspectives -- environment, economy, and equity -- and government sector.
5. Assessment of Quality of Regional Partnership:
The CCII project has high level and broad support in the region. Barbara Desoer, Northern California President of Bank of America, and Edward Jensen, retired President, CEO, of VISA International have agreed to be corporate champions. The community capital intermediaries in the Bay Area have participated in the creation of CCII and indicated support, as have the National Community Capital Association, The Calvert Foundation, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Oakland Advisors (many other supporters to be added). Several local cities including Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose are supportive of the Program. To date we have received written letters of support and desire to participate from the Mayors of East Palo Alto and Richmond and verbal assurance from the Mayor of San Francisco. The State Treasurers Office has designated a liaison, Sam Smalls, Executive Director of the California Pollution Control Authority, to work on CCII.
6. Current Federal Involvement:
HUD Community Builders from the regional office, Tom Jones and Jim Myers, have been active in CCII and the Bay Area Livability Footprint since July 1999. HUD has offered to provide guidance on the drafting of a master reverse RFP with assistance from PRL leadership. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President and Community Affairs staff has been actively engaged in CCII and provided input to what the structure of CCII should be. An initial discussion also has occurred with the newly opened Fannie Mae Regional Center a few months back.
7. Desired Federal Involvement:
The Bay Area team would like to meet with a federal team prior to the PRL meeting in October to discuss how to integrate the federal team into the CCII Government Council now under development and explore whether the members of the federal team can play the roles proposed later in this request in the areas of development finance and investments and related regulatory issues.
It is envisioned that HUD would be the lead federal agency and that the California Treasurer's Office would co-chair the Government Council. Steve Sachs, HUD Community Planning and Development, may be the designated lead person if Art Agnos the Regional Secretary for HUD makes that determination. Richie Post and Jay Smith would likely provide staffing to the Government Council. Also Keith Axtell of HUD has been active in the Federal Regional Council for North Richmond and in the Bay Area Partnership. The Federal Reserve Bank also has been invited to play a role in the Government Council. Participation is also sought from HHS, DOL, EPA, and Treasury Department (oversight of CDFIs), and Department of Commerce (SBA Administration). Also from Department of Transportation (Metropolitan Transportation Commission), General Service Administration, Department of Energy (Smart buildings design), and Department of Education.
The Government Council would develop criteria with which to evaluate "keystone development" projects for investment (financial, information, leadership, etc. ). The Council might consider, for example, whether keystone developments qualify for programs such as CRA credits or TEA-21 grants. The Council would also explore ways to smoothly move projects to completion.
It is the preference that headquarters be involved in authorizing and designating regional office staff and other resources to CCII. Where feasible, we would prefer federal staff located in the Bay Area to participate in CCII. The specific talents which federal participants in the Government Council are being asked to provide are as follows:
1. Project: Bay Area
2. Project: Livability Footprint (Footprint)
The purpose of the Livability Footprint project is to use state of the art information and planning tools to help communities throughout the Bay Area region identify and implement alternative development options that ultimately will reverse the current urban trends of suburban sprawl, heavy traffic congestion, inner-city disinvestment, and ecological degradation. The Footprint will provide a crucial decision-making tool by mapping alternative future growth, natural resource preservation, and community revitalization scenarios.
The Bay Area Alliance Steering Committee will provide ultimate oversight over the Footprint project. A leadership team composed of leaders from the government, business, social eauity, and environmental community will privide policy direction. A technical team will provide the technical capability to integrate information on some common information platforms (e.g. Geographic Information Systems). Throughout the development of the Footprint tool, leadership will identify forums for the community members to participate in its development.
3. Status of Reverse RFP:
The form and content of a reverse RFP has not been defined. The Bay Area would like to meet with a federal team after the PRL meeting in Atlanta to begin work on a RFP.
4. Assessment of "Ripeness": The LF is an important tool to advance the Community Capital Invest Initiative (CCII), which is ripe ready to move ahead. Therefore, the LF initiative must move as quickly as possible to be help meet the planning needs of CCII. The Bay Area needs to determine if and how the Regional Office of EPA can assist them.
The members of Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development have agreed in principle to the direction of the Bay Area Livability Footprint. The Commitment to Action in the Compact for A Sustainable Bay Area were developed between 1998-1999 with input from stakeholders from the economic development, environmental, and social equity community as well as local government representatives.
5. Assessment of Capacity of Regional Team
HUMAN: Refer to CCII write-up for more details. The regional team of the Partnership for Regional Livability, includes members from the Bay Area Alliance (See Attached for List of Members of the Bay area Alliance) and a broader set of players. These participants are seasoned and politically savvy with strong community recognition and support. The regional regulatory agencies have also actively participated in discussions abou the Fottprint, including the local Council of Governements (ABAG), the Metorpolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), and the Regional Water Quality Control Board.
TECHNICAL: A region-wide information tool based in Geographic Information Systems has been established this summer with the assistance of the University of California. Berkeley Institute of Regional and Urban Planning and the two full time fellows. This tool has the capacity to map information to the parcel level for each of the nine counties. County assessors data for every parcel can now be geocoded and placed on a GIS map as a pont, and as a shpe where the information is already present. A template methodology for identifying under-utilized property and infill potential parcels for bousing has been tested and is now being refined.
6. Assessment of Quality of Regional Partnership.
There is a broad base of support for the Footprint project as evidenced by:
--the number of organizations who attend the planning meetings, that include teams from the Business, Environment and Socal Equity Caucuses:
Other Organizations:
Participants in Regional GIS Meeting:
-- the diversity of organizations representing housing interests, low-income people, environmentalists, local governments, social equity
-- the fact that local regional planing groups, noted above, intend to incorporate the work of the Fottprint in their planning efforts.
Local governments are wary of the Footprint encroaching on their planning authority or coming up with results that are unacceptable to their jurisdiction. There is confidence , however, that they will come around to supporting the Footprint in light of the fact that local government staff from two of the nine counties are currently providing constructive input to the design of the Footprint.
7. Federal Involvement.
HUD Community Builders from the regional office have participated in the brainstorming by the regional team on the Footprint. They have provided conceptual guidance in identifying the various types of human activity that need to be understood for a Footprint on future growth scenarios to be useful.
Elliot Hurwitz, from NOAA headquarters, participated in a brainstorm to see how NOAA could participate in the Footprint.
The Federal Reserve Bank and Fannie Mae are engaged with the CCII initiative and will undoubtedly have interest in and capacity and resources to support the LF.
At this time the Footprint project needs support from the Regional EPA office. The Bay Area team is seeking assistance to make connections with the Regional EPA Office. Current thinking suggests that EPA and the Department of Interior and HUD could provide core federal team leadership for the the Footprint. The Bay Area will seek a meeting with a federal team after the PRL meeting in Atlanta to begin negotiations on a Reverse RFP.
Identification of Agencies to be Involved.
-- The federal inter-agency task force that has been supporting pilot projects on information such as the Aurora Partnership. Agencies include Interior, Energy, EPA and Commerce.
-- Mapping data from USGS and the Census Bureau (especially the data being collected for the year 2000 Census) and Department of Commerce (perhaps Jim Litzman)
--Financial evaluation of infrastructure, for instance through DOT, FHWA, EPA and others.
-- Transportation information - FHA, DOT
-- Baseline data on the Community Reinvestment Act from the Federal Reserve Bank, Treasury Department and the Office of Comptroller.
FOOTPRINT ANALYSES:
KEY QUESTIONS THE FEDERAL AGENCIES CAN HELP ADDRESS
NASA:
NASA Scientific Data Buy (SDB) program provides at no cost to ESIPs, RESACs, and certain other funded efforts. Typically, EarthWatch Global Terrain data are +/- 2.5-m in horizontal accuracy. The data are presnedted in 7.5 min. quadrangle tiles. Coverage extends from the Bay Area to include Sacramento and down the valley of Fresno. The SDB URL is <http://www.globalterrain.com/coverage_ncalif.htm>for coverage specifications. The data are of 2-m verticle accuracy, and wre collected in May 1997
U.S. Department of Interior:
U.S. Geological Survey
Contact: Jay Donnell and Jon Campbell
Through a cooperative research and development agreement, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Chicago Map Corporation (CMC) have formed a partnership to further the development of the National Atlas of the United StatesTM.
New electronic format will allow users to produce customized maps. The electronically based Atlas not only provides a complete range of traditional maps, but also enables citizens to experiment with their own individually created maps in order to explore the social, environmental, and historical dimensions of American life. With the National Atlas, children and adults can better understand the complex relationships between the places and people of the United States.
Department of Energy
The Department of Energy had made a request of interest in developing regional resource centers to employ the decision support tools identified by the Aurora Partnership. The Bay Area Alliance submitted a letter of interest in collaboration with EPRI (Palo Alto).
NOAA 1. NOAA could participate and assist in the Footprint development with:
a. Photogramtry of the Bay Area would be useful
b. Assistance in the development of standards that can be used for the region to promote compatibility
c. The Environmental Overlay can use the expertise of NOAA in scoping out the type of data that should be included and is available. This would range from superfund sites, to identification of environmentally sensitive areas within the Bay Area (developed to respond to Oil Spills). As soon as possible, we need to speak with someone to help us scope out a Work Plan for this overlay.
d. Provide clearance for the use of maps and data and technical analysis of it to be used by the Bay Area Alliance.
2. Real Time and Sustainable Indicators over time -
a. Identify existing measurement tools in place that could provide real time indicators on the health of the bay and coastal waters, including tools that track the health of Salmon fisheries. Also identify climate tracking tools that may be useful, as well. from the National Data Archive on Climates.
b. Baseline data to track over how the Bay Area is doing to improve the ecosystem health of the Bay.
3. Identify other people and programs in the Department of Commerce that can assist the Bay Area in promoting the sustainable development of the closed military bases, information to assure that a water transit ferry system is an environmental asset for the Bay Area. Contacts with the Census bureau could also be helpful in understanding the latitude of the survey to collect data needed for the Footprint and the Community Capital Investment Initiative.
4. Outreach - Determine whether in working through BCDC, special Coastal Planning Zone programs can be related to the Bay Area-wide outreach effort on Compact for A Sustainable Bay Area, especially as it relates to coastal and bay front communities. Are there resource, personnel, existing community planning efforts that could be connected to the Footprint?
1. Region: Chicago
2. Project: Regional Dialogue on Clean Air and Redevelopment
The Regional Dialogue on Clean Air and Redevelopment (Regional Dialogue) was launched in 1998 to create strategies for attaining Clean Air Act standards in a manner that works for the Chicago metropolitan region. It is designed to engage diverse local interests, such as industry, environmentalists, developers, local governments, labor, academics, and federal and state agencies in identifying strategies that can be implemented in the Chicago region and that can be incorporated in State Implementation Plans for meeting Clean Air Act standards. The Regional Dialogue is a partnership between the Metropolitan Mayors' Caucus (an organization of 270 municipalities in the Chicago region), the Illinois EPA, the U.S. EPA, and it is a project of the Delta Institute - a nonprofit organization focusing on environmental quality and community economic development.
3. Status of Reverse RFP:
A reverse RFP has not yet been prepared. The current plan is to draft the reverse RFP, submit it, and receive word back by December 9, 1999. The initial product from the Regional Dialogue will be a series of strategies or campaigns that together form an integrated approach to addressing clean air issues in the Chicago region. The strategies/campaigns also will include collateral benefits to the region in the areas of transportation, land use, development policy, and energy policy. The reverse RFP will suggest a federal role in helping to implement the strategies/campaigns.
4. Assessment of "Ripeness":
The issues that would be outlined in the reverse RFP have been developed through the Regional Dialogue process which has been on-going since March 1999.
5. Assessment of Capacity of Regional Team.
A regional team has been developed for the Regional Dialogue (150 participants from diverse interests). Key regional participants include:
Numerous non governmental participants, including:
An Implementation Steering Committee is about to be organized of about 30 regional leaders. The RFP would be submitted on behalf of the Steering Committee.
6. Assessment of Quality of Regional Partnership:
The project enjoys broad local support that meets the PRL requirements concerning inclusiveness. This will be formally in place via the Implementation Steering Committee.
Current Federal Involvement:
Federal agencies are currently a part of the Regional Dialogue. They include:
8. Nature of Current Federal Involvement:
The federal participants have been actively contributing to the development of the Regional Dialogue strategies/campaigns.
9. Desired Federal Involvement:
Components of the resulting strategies/campaigns will be targeted to federal agencies. Particular assistance will be necessary to help create incentives, deliver analytical information, and to further refine the strategies/campaigns.
10. Identification of Agencies To Be Involved:
11. Nature of Desired Federal Involvement:
This will be determined after we complete the strategies/campaigns and have an opportunity to brainstorm around the reverse RFP. We would like to arrange such a brainstorming session to occur in Chicago by the end of October 1999.
12. Specific Requests for Federal Involvement in Implementation:
To be determined.
Last updated November 16, 1999.