[CPEO-BIF] Cuyahoga County, OH Brownfields Loan Fund

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http://www.ohio.com:80/bj/news/ohio/docs/012128.htm

The Beacon Journal
11/28/99
Cuyahoga County hasn't been able to use federal cleanup grant

BY KATHERINE RIZZO
Associated Press Writer 
(excerpts)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Officials in Cleveland haven't found a way to spend
$350,000 they got from the federal government more than two years ago for
cleaning up abandoned factory land.

``We want to use it,'' said Virginia Aveni, who is in charge of
administering the grant for the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission. But in
a complaint that is echoing across the nation, she said the rules attached
to such grants are too strict.

Cuyahoga County is able to point to its own brownfields loan fund, worth
more than $26 million, to show how grants can be turned into cleanups.

The county's own program has been distributing local grants of up to
$450,000 to help developers assess chemical contamination and do other
things needed to get a property ready for recycling. In one case, a
property went from contaminated to clean and ready to use in just six months.

Complete article at:

http://www.ohio.com:80/bj/news/ohio/docs/012128.htm


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