Title: Iowa Department of Economic Development Business and Regulatory Assistance Team
1Iowa Department of Economic DevelopmentBusiness
and Regulatory Assistance Team
- Sherry Timmins
- Regulatory Assistance Coordinator
- 515.242.4901
- Sherry.Timmins_at_iowalifechanging.com
2Business and Regulatory Assistance
- Principles
- Strategies
- Services
- Future Issues
3Principles
- 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
4Strategies
- 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
5Questions!
6Questions!
- 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?
7Questions!
- 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?
8Questions!
- 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?
9Questions!
- 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
10Small 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
11Business Assistance Council for Environmental
Sustainability (BACES)
- 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
12Tools of Success
- 2008 Construction and Demolition (CD) workshops
- Sustainability Educators Roundtable
- County Grain Elevators Workshops
- IDED DNR Environmental Resources Lunch and
Learn
13Contact
- Jan Loyson, Small Business Environmental Liaison
- Jan.Loyson_at_iowalifechanging.com
- Environmental Business Assistance
1-800-351-4668 - 515.242.4761
14Water 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
15Water Quality Advocate
16Water Quality Advocate
- November 20
- Mason City , Iowa
- Lime Creek Nature Center
- 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
- November 28
- Atlantic, Iowa
- Iowa Western Community College
- 9 a.m. to noon
17Contact
- Jessica Montana, Water Quality Advocate
- Jessica.Montana_at_iowalifechanging.com
- Environmental Business Assistance
1-800-351-4668 - 515.242.4871
18Brownfield 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
19Brownfield 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
20Recycling
- 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
21Contact
- Matt Rasmussen, Program Manager
- Matt.Rasmussen_at_iowalifechanging.com
- Environmental Business Assistance
1-800-351-4668 - 515.242.4906
22Business 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 -
23Business 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
24Business License Information Center
25Contact
- Christine Cavil, Program Manager
- Christine.Cavil_at_iowalifechanging.com
- Business License Information Center
1-800-532-1216 - 515.242.4755
- http//www.iowalifechanging.com/business/blic.html
26Business 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
27Business 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
28Business and Regulatory Assistance Team
29Business and Regulatory Assistance Team
- 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
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- Public Safety, Mike Coveyou
- Revenue, Paul Benson
- Transportation, Bruce Schuck
30Business 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
31Web Portals
- 1. Business Coordinators
- http//regassist.iowa.gov/
- 2. Employer Awareness Guide
- http//regassist.iowa.gov/employer_aware/index.htm
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- 3. Plain Speak on Administrative Rules
- http//www.adminrules.iowa.gov/
- 4. Environmental Business Assistance
- http//regassist.iowa.gov/business_resources/envir
on_assistance.html
32Assistance 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
33Contact
- Sherry Timmins, Regulatory Assistance Coordinator
- Sherry.Timmins_at_iowalifechanging.com
- 1-800-532-1216
- 515.242.4901
- http//www.iowalifechanging.com/business/blic.html
34New 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 its 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.
35Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2007
- Its 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
36Future 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
372 Key Words Mitigation Adaptation
- Alliances
- Transparency
- Facilitating entrepreneurialism
- Consistency across enterprise
- Innovative