The following information was supplied by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga Port Authority in August, 2009.

Sustainability must become a fundamental business philosophy as the Cleveland‐Cuyahoga County Port Authority plans to become a “Green Port on a Great Lake.” Business diversification and expansion must be centered around the next generation of manufacturing. The maritime industry must embrace cleaner and more efficient shipping and cargo management.

Environmental compliance can no longer be enough. Ports must undertake a leadership role and voluntarily adopt leading best management practices (BMPs). Ports must be catalysts for change in how goods are transported.

The economies of scale associated with shipping must not be outweighed by environmental impacts. Ports are growing greener. Ports around the US are adopting “green policies” to help reduce and offset the negative impacts of port operations. In 2005, the Port of Long Beach adopted a Green Port Policy that includes 5 guiding principles: protect community from port operations; become environmental leader in stewardship and compliance; apply a sustainable philosophy to port operations and management; apply best management practices; and engage and educate the community. The Port of San Diego established a Green Port Program

Steering Committee that oversees the implementation and evaluation of a Green Port Policy.

As competing transportation modes (such as highway and rail) improve their own environmental performance, ports throughout the Great Lakes have been engaging in a process of continual improvement. Ports throughout the Great Lakes are applying best management practices as “common‐sense” approaches to addressing environmental impacts from port operations. The Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute published a Manual of Best Management Practices For Port Operations And Model Environmental Management System.

The Port of Cleveland is growing “greener” too. Here’s how:

• Hired the first Environmental & Sustainability Manager at any US Great Lakes port
• Joined the bi‐nation Green Marine program, provide leadership and environmental expertise
• Working to establish an Environmental & Sustainability Advisory Committee
• With help from the Advisory Committee, the Port of Cleveland will adopt a Green Port Policy
• Is engaging the community in planning for port relocation and the reconnection of downtown Cleveland to its lakefront
• Avoiding and minimizing environmental impacts; maximizing mitigation opportunities
• Focusing on the next generation of manufacturing as an anchor to the International Trade District
• Designing a cutting edge sustainable new port that applies green building technologies to manage energy use and environmental impacts

Transformative Investments ‐ A New Strategic Port Direction

Since today’s challenges are far different than those of the 1960s, the Port Authority is evolving its role to address the changing economic needs of Northeast Ohio. Today, the Port Authority is focused on transformational investments aimed at reinventing and re‐energizing the region’s economy and creating a sustainable future. Transformative investments are defined as multidimensional efforts that remake the urban physical landscape to stimulate economic growth, improve fiscal vitality, and advance social equity (Katz, 2007).To that end, the Port’s strategy to support this new direction and assist the Cleveland region to reach its full potential is multifaceted and inherently linked together in a comprehensive strategy for regeneration. The Port is employing three principles in carrying out this evolutionary role:

Urban Regeneration

(1) involve key stakeholders in building and advancing the vision; (2) educate the community and local leaders and develop new ones; and (3) leverage new and existing resources for a greater impact.

Priority projects for this strategy include:

(1) relocate the existing Port from its existing location to a highly distressed area just east of downtown to build a world class port for the 21st century;

(2) redevelop the existing Port’s current downtown site; and

(3) create a new International Trade District adjacent to the future port site. These priorities are to be carried out while building and expanding the Port’s existing business. Maritime Value The Cleveland‐Cuyahoga County Port Authority (Port Authority) plays a major economic role in the City of Cleveland and the region. Historically, the Port of Cleveland has kept local manufacturing connected to the world by supporting the importation of high‐end steel and other dry‐bulk cargo (iron, ore, stone, cement, sand and salt) as well as heavy machinery. By shipping through the Port of Cleveland, manufacturers gain the advantage of lowcost, efficient transportation. The Port Authority is currently working to diversify the cargo moving into and out of the Port of Cleveland; working to capitalize on the factor that the Port is the first major U.S. port upon entry into the Great Lakes.

Development Finance Role

The Port Authority, along with other Ohio port authorities, have assumed community development finance role. Port authorities acquire, improve, finance and operate important properties. These development finance roles create and protect jobs. As a result of that experience, the Cleveland‐Cuyahoga County Port Authority has evolved into a financier of major development projects, which are essential to help Ohio’s economy rebound. The development finance roles of port authorities make them valuable community partners. Under its bond financing authority, the Port Authority has financed many important projects, including: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland Stadium, Jergen’s new manufacturing facility, Cleveland Bottle & Supply’s acquisition/ renovation of a manufacturing facility, Cleveland Clinic’s genetics and stem cell research building, the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center and will be financing Eaton’s new headquarters.

Planning for Port Relocation: Re‐Connecting Cleveland to Lake Erie

Planning to reconnect the City of Cleveland with its waterfront has been the focus of countless lakefront planning efforts, from Daniel Burnham’s Mall Plan to the City’s most recent Waterfront Plan in 2004. The City of Cleveland’s Waterfront Plan, produced in 2004, recognized the need to both free up the existing port location for higher and better uses, and provide a site to develop a relocated, thriving port. The City’s most recent Citywide Plan, Connecting Cleveland 2020, reaffirmed the vision of “a city with an accessible lakefront (Lake Erie) and riverfront (Cuyahoga River); connected to waterfront neighborhoods and unique recreation opportunities.”

The Citywide Plan action elements include the need to “identify transportation and infrastructure improvements to facilities the plan’s development proposals.”

The Port is now working with the City of Cleveland, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), a Community Steering Committee and a consultant to develop a phased development implementation market plan for the downtown waterfront. Planning for a New Confined Disposal Facility and a Relocated Port U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are required to dredge the Cuyahoga River and the Navigation harbor. The dredged materials are required to be disposed of in a confined disposal facility; the current CDF is nearing capacity. New funding rules require the Corps to work with a local sponsor in the development of a new CDF; local sponsor must share 25% of the cost. The Port has indicated its interest in being a “local sponsor” if the CDF, upon fill completion, can support port operations.

Urban Regeneration

The Port has been working with the Corps to identify potential sites that work as both a CDF and for a future Port. More information on this process can be found in the Advance Report Summary: Port Relocation Study here.

E. 55th Preferred Location

The E. 55th Street site was determined to have the most efficient future road rail access based upon existing access and potential improvements to E. 55th, E. 72nd and the North Marginal and rail connections. More detailed analysis can be found in the Advanced Relocation Summary. On December 21, 2007, the Port Authority Board approved the East 55th Street site as its preferred Port relocation site. The East 55th Street Site was presented to the public as the Port’s preferred site on February 19, 2008.

The USACE added this site to the DMMP and is currently in the process of developing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) of potential sites. On March 7, 2008, the joint CDF and preferred Port relocation site were presented, in public session, to the Cleveland City Planning Commission. The Planning Commission granted conditional approval of the E. 55th Street area as the general location of the new CDF, to be built by the USACE and shaped and sized to accommodate new commercial maritime docks for the Port Authority.

International Trade District

The International Trade District is a defined geographic (close to 1,000 acres) area located within the St. Clair Superior neighborhood perfectly suited as an anchor for job creation. The objective of the International Trade District (ITD) is to create a district capable of attracting US and international companies to locate their distribution, manufacturing, warehousing and assembly facilities to take advantage of the district’s proximity to the water, rail and interstate transportation networks.

The relocation of the Port from its existing location and creation of new Port provide opportunities to change not only the size and scope of Port operations and to create a new trade district, but to potentially create additional landside business opportunities in the newly–created International Trade District. Over 1,000 acres of urban land will be redeveloped. New warehousing, distribution centers, value‐added manufacturing, and logistics support facilities will populate this district. Proximity to the new Port creates access to global markets with cost‐efficient transportation. Elements developed in the ITD may include: the development of a world class intermodal logistics hub near downtown Cleveland as well as, mini industrial park and manufacturing and assembly facilities; and training and placement of new jobs for neighboring and adjacent communities in Cleveland.

DRAFT Resolution for the Port of Cleveland Environmental & Sustainability Advisory Committee

WHEREAS, the Cleveland‐Cuyahoga County Port Authority, its Board of Directors and staff are committed to the integration of environmental and sustainability principles into daily decision‐making process with respect to business, development and operation activities at the Port of Cleveland and recognize the need for an Environmental & Sustainability Advisory Committee.

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors adopted an Environmental Policy (Resolution 2006‐40) in July 2006 that outlines the following basic environmental principles: • Create awareness of emergency management system procedures among Port employees, tenants and operators • Promote pollution prevention, effective use of resources and energy‐saving activities, as well as, waste minimization

Urban Regeneration • Comply with all environmental, health and safety regulatory agencies at the local, state and federal levels • Encourage the continous improvement of environmental proctection activities at the Port of Cleveland. • Advocate for environmental responsibility to be exercised through the Great Lakes maritime community

WHEREAS, the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) embraced the concept of sustainability as a standard business practice for ports and the Association through the adoption of Resolution D‐11 adopted seven Sustainability

Guiding Principles including:

1. Communicate the goals of sustainability across the organization and allocate resource requirements for implementation;

2. Integrate sustainability throughout port activities and in both near‐term and long‐ term planning processes;

3. Build upon and share existing sustainability best practices, keys to success, lessons learned and approaches for implementation;

4. Communicate and engage with internal and external stakeholders to encourage open dialogue, accountability and collaboration;

5. To the extent possible, use appropriate data and metrics as part of the process for implementing sustainability;

6. Evaluate the total life cycle costs of projects and decisions; and

7. Recognize that sustainability is a dynamic effort requiring flexibility and continuous improvement.

WHEREAS, the Port of Cleveland is a supporting member agency of the Green Marine program, a voluntary environmental partnership of the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes marine industry, participating on the CEO Steering,

Environmental and Technical Committees. The main goals of the Green Marine program are to:

• Strengthen environmental performance through a process of continuous improvement;

• Build strong relations with Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Waterway stakeholders; and

• Heighten understanding of the industry’s activities and environmental benefits

WHEREAS, the Cleveland‐Cuyahoga County Port Authority has hired the first dedicated Environmental & Sustainability Manager at a U.S. Great Lakes Port, second on the Great Lakes;

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors recognize that Port Authorities shoulder a unique responsibility of constantly balancing the facilitation of commerce with the preservation of coastal resources;

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors recognize that environmental compliance can no longer be enough and that Ports must undertake a leadership role and voluntarily adopt leading best management practices (BMPs).

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors recognize that Ports must be catalysts for change in how goods are transported and that the economies of scale associated with shipping must not be outweighed by environmental impacts.

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors believe that Sustainability must become a fundamental business philosophy as the Cleveland‐Cuyahoga County Port Authority plans to become a “Green Port on a Great Lake.”

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Cleveland‐Cuyahoga County Port Authority Board of

Directors directs staff to establish and convene an Environmental & Sustainable Advisory Committee with the following goals:

• Assist staff in the identification of an environmental & sustainability guiding principles upon which a Green

Port Policy will be developed

• Act a technical resource on best management practices to avoid or minimize environmental impacts on air, land and water resources

• Advise the Port on how to effectively engage and educate the community

• Support and promote the Port of Cleveland as a leader in environmental and sustainable businesses practices