Re: Definition of Brownfields Question on HUD Chat

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

For a long time, regulatory agencies, including EPA, dealt with
hazardous waste sites without thinking much about their future use. This
made most sense of very polluted sites associated with hazardous waste
disposal. The thrust of the Brownfields Initiative, as well as US EPA's
more recent focus on Recycling Superfund Sites, is to optimize the
future use of hazardous waste sites.

In this way, Brownfields are a subset of hazardous waste sites.

Lenny
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