Iowa Department of Economic Development Business and Regulatory Assistance Team

1. Iowa Department of Economic DevelopmentBusiness and Regulatory Assistance Team Sherry Timmins Regulatory Assistance Coordinator 515.242.4901 Sherry.Timmins@iowalifechanging.com

2. Business and Regulatory Assistance • Principles • Strategies • Services • Future Issues

3. Principles • Non-regulatory and confidential • All customers deserve timely and comprehensive service • Enhances the ability of a customer to operate efficiently, avoid planning mistakes, increases compliance effectiveness • Critical to start-up and small business whose resources are limited • Catalyst for environmental sustainability - facilitating “best practices” and partnerships • Help communities become vital and healthy areas for business to expand and attract skilled work forces

4. Strategies Partnerships - leverage resources, increases knowledge, credibility, and services Communication - “win-win” for regulatory agencies, assistance providers and customers Challenge - ask “why” or “why not” to break down perception and process barriers Anticipate - key customer, partner and stakeholder needs

5. Questions!

6. Questions! We are looking at Iowa for an expansion, environmental permits the following: Is a handling period of 3 months from turning in the application to final approval possible? Is it possible to have emissions from our paint shop / curing facilities with the following characteristics without treatment?

7. Questions! Our waste water treatment permit has expired. The application is confusing! Our small community will have to tighten our control limits! Is there anyone that can help?

8. Questions! We are thinking of purchasing a brownfield property, what to be aware of before purchasing? Ideas on how can we reduce our regulatory costs and protect the environment?

9. Questions! • Where do I find verification of a business name? • How do I apply for a new state withholding tax account...we do not have a business in your state, but we are hiring employees in Iowa and will also work in Iowa

10. Small Business Environmental Liaison • 1990 U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments • Small Business Environmental Liaison • Assist small business with understanding regulations • Ensure access to technical assistance resources • Outreach and communication to the • small business community • Ombudsman between IDNR and small business

11. EPA Blue Skyways Collaborative Clipper Wind Turbine Facility Institute for Environmental Research and Education at the Iowa Waste Reduction Center Des Moines Energy and Environment Task Force Sundance Summit on Climate Protection Des Moines Capacity Center of International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) Ethanol's Impact on Iowa's Groundwater, Watershed and Air Quality. Certified Environmental Management Systems for Agriculture Evolving World of Renewable Fuels Business Assistance Council for Environmental Sustainability (BACES)

12. “Tools” of Success • 2008 Construction and Demolition (C&D) workshops • Sustainability Educators Roundtable • County Grain Elevators Workshops • IDED & DNR Environmental Resources “Lunch and Learn”

13. Contact Jan Loyson, Small Business Environmental Liaison Jan.Loyson@iowalifechanging.com Environmental Business Assistance 1-800-351-4668 515.242.4761

14. Water Quality Advocate 2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2540, Sec.27 Funding to IDED for an Environmental Advocate to provide technical assistance to NPDES permit holders • Point of contact between regulatory agencies, businesses and communities on water quality issues • Outreach and assistance, including permitting and compliance requirements • Connect businesses and communities with water quality programs and expert resources

15. Water Quality Advocate

16. Water Quality Advocate November 20 Mason City , Iowa Lime Creek Nature Center 9 a.m. to noon November 28 Atlantic, Iowa Iowa Western Community College 9 a.m. to noon • 2007 NPDES 101 Assistance Workshops • Assist - waste water treatment operators and city clerks • Understand Clean Water Act requirements, answer questions, complete an accurate permit renewal form

17. Contact Jessica Montana, Water Quality Advocate Jessica.Montana@iowalifechanging.com Environmental Business Assistance 1-800-351-4668 515.242.4871

18. Brownfield RedevelopmentRecycling Assistance • 15.292 BROWNFIELD REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IDED shall administer a brownfield redevelopment program to provide financial and technical assistance for the acquisition, remediation, or redevelopment of brownfield sites • 455E.11 GROUNDWATER PROTECTION FUND ESTABLISHED Three percent (of the solid waste tonnage fee) to IDED to assist the recycling industry

19. Brownfield Redevelopment • Reuse existing infrastructure • Reinvest in underutilized properties • Conserve green space • Sustainable land and building design RESOURCES • Information and resources for prospective purchasers • Technical assessment for communities • FY 07 Brownfield Funding Round

20. Recycling Iowa Waste Exchange Matches byproducts and waste to groups able to re-use or recycle materials Online database of materials Avoids storage, transportation and storage fees Materials Testing Service Replacing mainstream materials with innovative composites Testing services - chemical, mechanical, and physical property tests

21. Contact Matt Rasmussen, Program Manager Matt.Rasmussen@iowalifechanging.com Environmental Business Assistance 1-800-351-4668 515.242.4906

22. Business License Information Center Iowa Code, 15E.17 Enable an individual or business interested in establishing a commercial facility or activity to obtain information about any registration, license or other approval required under state law

23. Business License Information Center On-line data base of professionally licensed occupations, registrations, certifications, and permits required by the state to legally conduct business in Iowa Iowa does not have a “general” business license Search engine moves across all agency requirements to identify compliance needs

24. Business License Information Center

25. Contact Christine Cavil, Program Manager Christine.Cavil@iowalifechanging.com Business License Information Center 1-800-532-1216 515.242.4755 http://www.iowalifechanging.com/business/blic.html

26. Business and Regulatory Assistance Team 2005 Acts, ch 150, §7 15E.19 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE IDED shall coordinate all regulatory assistance for the state of Iowa Regulatory agencies shall maintain a coordinator within the regulatory agency

27. Business and Regulatory Assistance Team Regulatory agencies shall maintain a coordinator within the agency to: 1. Provide a primary contact for IDED 2. Present regulatory requirements and represent the agency to business 3. Monitor permit applications and permit status to IDED 4. Require regulatory staff to participate in discussions with businesses 5. Notify IDED of rulemaking activities impacting business

28. Business and Regulatory Assistance Team

29. Administrative Services – IT, Mark Uhrin Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Margaret Thomson Human Services – Child Support , Doris Taylor Iowa Utilities Board, Joan Conrad Iowa Workforce Development, Kathleen Uehling Professional Licensing Bureau, Glenda Loving Public Health, Dean Austin Natural Resources, Christine Spackman Public Safety, Mike Coveyou Revenue, Paul Benson Transportation, Bruce Schuck Business and Regulatory Assistance Team

30. Business and Regulatory Assistance Team • Enterprise thinking & approach • Quick response to email & phone inquiries • Permit consultations help economic development projects meet timelines • More comprehensive & accurate information • Facilitate coordinated outreach by many organizations

31. Web Portals 1. Business Coordinators http://regassist.iowa.gov/ 2. Employer Awareness Guide http://regassist.iowa.gov/employer_aware/index.html 3. Plain Speak on Administrative Rules http://www.adminrules.iowa.gov/ 4. Environmental Business Assistance http://regassist.iowa.gov/business_resources/environ_assistance.html

32. Assistance Fact Sheets Structuring Your New Business Business Licensing Biodiesel Facility Regulatory Assistance Guide Ethanol Facility Regulatory Assistance Guide Site Development and Expansion Iowa Environmental Regulatory Guide for Industries Small Business Environmental Assistance Program Water Quality Advocacy Air Quality - Compliance Information for Economic Developers Recycling Technical Assistance and Tax Exemptions

33. Contact Sherry Timmins, Regulatory Assistance Coordinator Sherry.Timmins@iowalifechanging.com 1-800-532-1216 515.242.4901 http://www.iowalifechanging.com/business/blic.html

34. New York Times, May 17, 2006 If politics make for strange bedfellows, global warming, endangered forests, dwindling water supplies and scary new technologies have made for even stranger ones. Environmentalists and corporations are engaging in a new spirit of cooperation. The idea that it’s “none of their damned business when it comes to environmental risks has disappeared,” said Ian W. Fowler, a former executive at BP and now a consultant to nonprofit groups.

35. Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2007 It’s an approach that Mr. Krupp, CEO, Environmental Defense Fund, says in the soothing words that are his style, “recognizes the realities of the world and deals with them. It harnesses market forces and incentives so companies are rewarded in the courts of public opinion or in the emissions-trading system…”

36. Future Issues Global • USCAP – mandatory reductions & marketing trading • “REGGI” - NE & Mid Atl. Carbon trading • Chicago Climate Exchange - GHG trading • Quebec “Carbon Tax” • California GHG 80% reduction goal Iowa • Greenhouse Gas Inventories • Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council • Climate Change Registry • Office of Energy Independence • IDED ‘Green Streets”

37. 2 Key Words – Mitigation & Adaptation • Alliances • Transparency • Facilitating entrepreneurialism • Consistency across enterprise • Innovative