Commerce produced BLIS as a tool to help promote the reuse of brownfields across Wisconsin. After a user enters a query, BLIS returns a list of the ten brownfields in Wisconsin that best match the criteria and displays their locations on a map of the state. BLIS is online and functional. It uses a test brownfields dataset made up of the 26 sites that were awarded Wisconsin Brownfields grants in the 1997-1999 biennium.
Users can view maps and test the query capability.
Most of these sites already have end-users. Commerce is currently compiling information on available sites and will implement the new dataset in the near future. Anyone who owns a brownfield site in Wisconsin can list the property. The tracking system is a searchable database of all the contaminated sites that are managed by the Remediation and Redevelopment Program. This initiative is scheduled to be available in the spring 2000.