• Clean Cities, Clean Air, Alternative Fuels  
• Metairie CBD Land Use and Transportation Study
• Bicycle and Pedestrian Initiatives

A Project of the
Regional Planning Commission
and the Louisiana Department of
Transportation and Development  

The East-West Corridor Environmental Impact Study (EIS) was initiated by the Regional Planning Commission in their responsibilities to identify and resolve current and future transportation problems in the New Orleans metropolitan area. The primary purpose of the EIS is to provide the Regional Planning Commission’s Transportation Policy Committee with the information necessary to ascertain which alternative should be adopted and included in the Metropolitan Transportation Plan for the New Orleans Urbanized Area, Year 2027.

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Regional Brownfields Redevelopment Initiative

Brownfield Site: With certain legal exclusions and additions, the term `brownfield site' means real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. (EPA)

Southeast Louisiana Regional Brownfields Consortium

Communities need the tools to assess, cleanup and reuse contaminated properties through partnerships, streamlining, research, and community-based projects. The Regional Planning Commission (RPC) undertook the regional brownfields effort to provide these tools. The RPC created a regional policy group, the Southeast Louisiana Regional Brownfields Consortium, to steer the effort, to develop a regional resource for the information needed by communities to formulate brownfields development plans, to synthesize those plans throughout the region, and to prevent the creation of new brownfields sites. The Consortium will assist the communities of the parishes of Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, St. Charles, St. John, St. James and Tangipahoa to achieve a common goal—sustainable development.
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	WebBRIMS: Brownfield Redevelopment Initiative Management System (BRIMS)
	A Property Redevelopment Initiative Sponsored by the US Environmental Protection Agency

As part of the Brownfields regional redevelopment initiative, the EPA is sponsoring a Web initiative, WebBRIMS, to track a variety of the initiative's components, including: property lists, local, state and regional efforts. Web sites created through WebBRIMs can be accessed from this map of Region 6 (off-site).

Regional Planning Commission's WebBRIMS Web site (off-site)

WebBRIMS Web sites (all are off-site): Gretna, Jefferson Parish, New Orleans, Westwego

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