Missouri Certified Sites Program

1. Missouri Certified Sites Program Missouri Department of Economic Development Presented By: Hal Van Slyck Program Administrator

2. Program Sponsors • Ameren • KCP&L • Empire Electric • Missouri’s Electric Cooperatives • MEDC • DED • DNR

3. Introduction • The Missouri Certified Sites Program was designed to provide consistent standards regarding the availability and development potential of commercial or industrial development sites.

4. Program Objectives • Establish a statewide inventory of Certified Sites. • Improve Missouri’s competitive edge by giving more certainty for businesses in locating and developing projects quickly. • Standardize and recognize one set of site specific data that is most demanded by the site selection professional community.

5. Program Objectives – Cont’d • Encourage local economic development organizations to control, invest and comprehensively analyze sites prior to client visitation. • Demonstrate to a client that economic development organizations and/or government agencies are committed to promoting and expediting economic development projects.

6. Criteria • Established based on both the requirements of industry and the data documenting availability. • Certification granted after a comprehensive review of application by the Technical Review Committee. • Committee up to 10 economic developers, including utility and certified community / economic development practitioners.

7. Who is Eligible to Apply? • Local city government within which the property boundaries lie. • Local county government within which the property boundaries lie. • Locally or regionally recognized formally organized economic development organizations.

8. What is a Certified Site? • Completed program application which has been approved by the technical review team. • 10 Acres or more in size. • Primarily marketed by the sponsoring entity for business recruitment and expansion.

9. What is a Certified Site?- Cont’d • Not intended for retail. • Contains (at a minimum)- water, sewer, and electric infrastructure at the site.

10. What does “Certification” mean? • Application submitted to the Technical Review Committee, has been fully reviewed and approved. • Certification does not attest to the accuracy of the information. • Certification of accuracy is provided by signature of the applicant and is accepted by the review team as true.

11. “Certification” - Cont’d • Site certification valid for 3 years. • Each certified site will be provided a logo that will designate site certification on ML1. • Logo restricted to use by Missouri Certified Sites and may be used by the community to actively market the site.

12. Certification Costs? • The city, county, or sponsoring economic development organization is responsible for all costs to assemble information, data or any professional services required to be performed to complete the application. • Professional service providers may include (but not limited to); attorneys, real estate professionals, environmental specialists, engineers, and/or laboratory analysts, and state agency fees. There is no ‘submission fee’.

13. Application Process (2 Steps) Step One........... • Complete/Submit Notice of Intent to DED Step Two……… • Complete/Submit Certified Site Application to DED (8 Copies)

14. Application Process – Cont’d • Paper or electronic copy accepted. If electronic, electronic signature required and if submitted by email, must originate from or cc the person on the signature line. • Do not send original attachments to DED!

15. Application Overview – Cont’d All information submitted must be……. • Organized by section • Identified by reference number • Bound for ease of review (if paper)

16. Application Overview 5 Parts • Ownership Information • Property Information • Environmental and Cultural Information • Access Information • Community Information

17. 1. Ownership Information 1.1 – Contact 1.2 – Price 1.3 – Title 1.4 – Easements, liens, encumbrances 1.5 – City Limits? Plan to annex? Or not.

18. 2. Property Information 2.1 – Parcel Information 2.2 – Sales/Lease Information 2.3 – Zoning Designation

19. 3. Environmental and Cultural Info 3.1 – Phase I Environmental Assessment 3.2 – Phase II Environmental Assessment (if required) 3.3 – Regional Air Quality 3.4 – Wetland/Waters of the U.S. Boundaries 3.5 – Floodplain Boundaries 3.6 – Threatened or Endangered Species 3.7 – Archeological and Cultural Resources 3.8 – Soil Conditions 3.9 – Seismic Activity / County Hazard Mitigation Plan

20. 4. Access Information 4.1 – Site Access 4.2 – Rail Access 4.3 – Airport Access (Include KCI & STL Info) 4.4 – River Port Access (Optional) 4.5 – Parcel Boundary Survey (ALTA/ASCM) 4.6 – Fire Insurance Rating 4.7 – Utilities

21. 5. Community Information 5.1 – U.S. Post Office 5.2 – Freight Service 5.3 – Emergency Medical 5.4 – Planning Agency 5.5 – Building Department 5.6 – Police Protection 5.7 – Local Support 5.8 – Missouri Location One 5.9 – Miscellaneous

22. Thank You!