Publications and Reports
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EPA's Center for Environmental Finance (CEF) Reports and Publications
Newsletters
- February 2014 - Volume 4, Issue 1
- July 2012 - Volume 3, Issue 3
- June 2012 - Volume 3, Issue 2
- January 2012 - Volume 3, Issue 1
- October 2011 - Volume 2, Issue 3
- July 2011 - Volume 2, Issue 2
- February 2011 - Volume 2, Issue 1
- September 2010 - Volume 1, Issue 2
- March 2010 - Volume 1, Issue 1
Progress Reports
- 2014-2015 Environmental Finance Program Report
- 2010-2011 Environmental Finance Program Report
- 2007-2008 Environmental Finance Program Report
- 2005-2006 Environmental Finance Program Report
Financial Tool Guides
Other
- Compendium of EFAB Reports: 2001-2010
- Environmental Financial Advisory Board Factsheet
- Environmental Finance Centers Factsheet
- Environmental Financing Information Network Factsheet
Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) Reports by Subject
Cost Effective Environmental Management
- Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Report (July, 2014)
- Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Report Response Letter (October, 2014)
- Municipal Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction: Financing and Implementing Energy Efficiency Retrofits in City-Owned Facilities (January, 2014)
- Financing Tribal Environmental Programs (August, 2013)
- Eliminating Barriers to Tribal Environmental Projects (July, 2012)
- Voluntary Environmental Improvement Bond (VEIB) Programs: EFAB's response to FHFA report (May, 2011)
- Financial Assurance: Report on Improving Cost Estimation and Letter on the Use of Credit Ratings (December, 2010)
- Financial Assurance: Commercial Insurance as a Financial Assurance Tool (February, 2010)
- Voluntary Environmental Improvement Bonds Reports (June, 2009)
- Environmental Management Systems and the Use of Corporate Environmental Information by the Financial Community (April, 2008)
- EFAB Supports EPA's Private Activity Bond Initiative (April, 2007)
- The Use of Captive Insurance as a Financial Assurance Tool in Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response Programs (March, 2007)
- EFAB initial findings concerning use of the financial test and corporate guarantees to meet financial assurance requirements under RCRA programs (March, 2006)
- Application of Innovative Finance Techniques in the Transportation Infrastructure & Financial Innovation Act of 1998 (March, 2005)
- Application of Useful Life Financing of Environmental Facilities (Jan, 2005)
- Report on Findings from EFAB's Environmental Management Systems Workshop (July, 2003)
- Protecting America's Land Legacy: Stewardship Policies, Tools, and Incentives to Protect and Restore America's Land Legacy (February, 2003)
- Expanding Lending for Non-Point Source Projects (2002)
- Private Sector Initiatives in Providing Public Environmental Services (2001)
- Small Business Innovation Research (2001)
- Small Business Innovation Research Solicitations (2001)
- Removing Barriers to Investment in Environmental Infrastructure in Western Europe (2000)
- Cooperative International Bond Guaranty Fund (1999)
- Cost Effective Environmental Management Case Studies (1998)
- Increasing Flexibility for Financing Group Cleanup of Contaminated Sites (1995)
- Finance Program for Border Environmental Cooperation Commission & North American Development Bank under NAFTA (1994)
- Implementing the Environmental Finance Aspects of NAFTA (1994)
- Financing the Remediation of Hazardous Waste Sites under NAFTA (1994)
- Financing Environmental Infrastructure: US-Mexican Border & Eastern Europe (1993)
- Urban Environmental Policy (1993)
- Environmental Finance for the 1990s: Progress Report (1992)
- Public Sector Options to Finance Environmental Facilities (1992)
- Incentives for Environmental Investment (1991)
- Small Community Financing Strategies for Environmental Facilities (1991)
- Private Sector Participation in the Provision of Environmental Services (1991)
State Revolving Fund (SRF)
- Utilizing SRF Funding for Green Infrastructure Projects (January, 2014)
- SRF Investment Function: Current Status and Prospects for Enhancing SRF Sustainability (February, 2011)
- Relative Benefits of Direct and Leveraged Loan Approaches for State Revolving Fund (SRF) Programs (August, 2008)
- Expanding the Definition of State Revolving Fund Financial Assistance (January, 2007)
- Establishment of a New State Revolving Fund Loan Guaranty Program (May, 2006)
- Application of Useful Life Financing to State Revolving Funds (May, 2006)
- Combined Operations of the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds(May, 2005)
- Coordination of USEPA State Revolving Fund (SRF) and USDA Rural Utility Service (RUS) Water and Sewer Loan Assistance (August, 2003)
- Environmental States Revolving Funds Model (2000)
- Funding Privately Owned Water Providers through SDWA & SRF (1998)
- Longer Term Loans for SRF (1997)
- State Revolving Fund 1987-1997 (1997)
- State Revolving Fund: Cross-Collaboration Issues (1996)
Water
- Small Water Systems in Puerto Rico (December, 2014)
- Small Water Systems in Puerto Rico Response Letter (February, 2015)
- Financial Capability Assessment Framework (September, 2014)
- Financial Capability Assessment Framework Response Letter (October, 2014)
- Financial Assurance for Underground Carbon Sequestration Facilities (March, 2010)
- Financing Mechanisms for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Other Air and Water Pollution Problems (March, 2010)
- Water Loss Reduction: Financing Mechanisms for Drinking Water Distribution Systems (March, 2010)
- Public-Private Partnerships in the Provision of Water and Wastewater Services: The Canadian Experience (September, 2008)
- Public Private Partnerships in the Provision of Water and Wastewater Services: Barriers and Incentives (April, 2008)
- Combined Sewer Overflows - Guidance for Financial Capability Assessment and Schedule Development (May, 2007)
- Sustainable Finance for Watersheds (January, 2007)
- Affordability Rate Design for Households (February, 2006)
- Maryland's Bay Restoration Fund Act (December, 2005)
- Innovations in Watershed Financing Letter Report (January, 2005)
- Public Sector Initiatives to Increase Performance in the Water & Watershed Industry (2002)
- Arbitrage Relief for Water & Sewer Funding Needs (2001)
Air
- Financing Clean Air Technology Letter (January, 2012)
- Financing Mechanisms for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Other Air and Water Pollution Problems (March, 2010)
- SmartWay Transport Program, official letter to the EPA Administrator: Innovative Finance Programs for Air Pollution Reduction (November, 2007)
- Clean Air Act of 1990: Guide to Public Financing (1990)
Brownfields
- Brownfields Tax Incentives (2002)
- Brownfields Tax Incentives (2001)
- Brownfields Tax Incentives (1998)
- Financing Brownfields Cleanup and Reuse (1997)
- Cleanup & Redevelopment of Brownfields: Barriers to Private Sector Involvement (1997)
- Financing Brownfields Redevelopment: Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Program (1996)
- Financing Strategies for Brownfields Redevelopment (1996)
- Financing Brownfields Redevelopment (1996)
- Information Needs of Capital Providers in Brownfields Redevelopment (1995)
Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) Meeting Summaries
- Fall 2014 Meeting Summary (Oct, 2014)
- Spring 2014 Meeting Summary (May, 2014)
- Winter 2013 Meeting Summary(December, 2013)
- Spring 2013 Meeting Summary(May, 2013)
- Meeting Summary - Workshop on Transit-Oriented Development for Sustainable Communities (May, 2012)
- Spring 2012 Meeting Summary (May, 2012)
- Fall 2011 Meeting Summary (October, 2011)
- Spring 2011 Meeting Summary (March, 2011)
- Summer 2010 Meeting Summary (August, 2010)
- Summer 2009 Meeting Summary (August, 2009)
- Spring 2009 Meeting Summary (March, 2009)
- Summer 2008 Meeting Summary (August, 2008)
- Meeting Summary - Workshop on Financial Assurance in EPA Programs (June 2008)
- Spring 2008 Meeting Summary (March, 2008)
- Meeting Summary - The Use of Corporate Environmental Information in Financial Decisions (June, 2007)
- Spring 2007 Meeting Summary (March, 2007)
- Summer 2006 Meeting Summary (August, 2006)
- Meeting Summary - Captive Insurance as a Financial Assurance Tool Workshop (June, 2006)
- Meeting Summary - Sustainable Watershed Financing Roundtable Training Session Meeting Summary (March, 2006)
- Spring 2006 Meeting Summary (March, 2006)
- Meeting Summary - Workshop on Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 34 (July, 2003)
- Spring 2003 Meeting Summary (March, 2003)