The Florida Remediation Conference is an annual, premier event for professionals in the soil, air, and water remediation industry, focusing on learning about new technologies, regulations, and strategies for cleaning up contaminated sites. The conference serves as a key networking event for industry professionals, including consultants, contractors, and regulators, offering educational sessions, exhibitor booths from companies in the field, and insights into current trends and upcoming challenges.
GT Environmental Practice Co-Chair Kerri Barsh is a presenter for the Workshop, "A Magnificent Evolution of Florida’s Brownfields Program – Expansion and Acceleration of Remediation, Redevelopment, and Reuse Under HB 733".
The 2025 Florida Legislature enacted HB 733 with strong bipartisan support, was approved unanimously by the House and Senate, and became effective July 1, 2025. The legislation creates new opportunities for local governments to rehabilitate and redevelop a broader universe of municipally owned sites that would have previously been disqualified, establishes an easier pathway to Brownfields Program eligibility for Superfund sites, and, perhaps most importantly, authorizes an unprecedented right to achieve early closure of contaminated properties that were historically part of a larger contaminated site. This “early closure” feature of HB 733 will arguably bring about the most transformative change to Chapter 62-780, F.A.C., since the rule was first promulgated and has implications for how sites are defined, how assessments are conducted, how technical demonstrations need to be made, and the timing for when No Further Action Proposals should be submitted and Declarations of Restrictive Covenants recorded. There are significant financial advantages as well. Persons receiving Voluntary Cleanup Tax Credits pursuant to what would have been a multiparty BSRA may now be able to double or triple their gross VCTC award. Special emphasis will be placed on how to properly analyze application of HB 733 to existing projects to take advantage of its retroactivity and how to plan for new projects to shorten timeframes to regulatory closure, maximize tax credit recovery, and accelerate remediation and reuse of sites that are eligible for participation in Florida’s Brownfields Program only as of July 1, 2025. This is a very timely workshop with a panel of top practitioners in the field who were involved every step of the way in the drafting of the legislation and its successful advancement through the Florida House and Senate. Do not miss your chance to receive important insight into how the bill came together, how the legislation works, and how it can and should be utilized to benefit your clients, constituents, and/or communities.