[CPEO-BIF] Senate hearing on school siting and brownfields

On October 1^st,Lois Gibbs, executive director of the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ), testified before the US Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee on the need for school siting legislation. The main point of her testimony was that with thousands of new schools proposed for construction in the next five years there is “an immediate need to define criteria and appropriate funds to ensure that new schools are designed and built to protect children’s health”.

At the hearing, she outlined model school siting guidelines developed by CHEJ’s Childproofing our Communities campaign. These include: 1) establishing a community-based school siting committee to recommend sites for building new schools; 2) creating a categorical exclusion to prohibit schools construction within 1,000 feet of a hazardous waste site or landfill; and 3) requiring state regulatory review of the environmental assessment of any proposed site. Currently, only California has passed legislation that requires the state regulatory agency to be involved in the environmental review of properties on which a school district proposes to construct a school.

To read a complete transcript of the hearing go to http://www.senate.gov/~epw/stm1_107.htm#10-01-02

Additional information about CHEJ’s Childproofing our Communities Campaign can be found on www.childproofing.org.

From:	Bob Hersh <bhersh@cpeo.org>
Date:	7 Oct 2002 22:34:30 -0000
Reply:	cpeo-brownfields
Subject:	[CPEO-BIF] Senate hearing on school siting and brownfields

On October 1^st,Lois Gibbs, executive director of the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ), testified before the US Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee on the need for school siting legislation. The main point of her testimony was that with thousands of new schools proposed for construction in the next five years there is “an immediate need to define criteria and appropriate funds to ensure that new schools are designed and built to protect children’s health”. At the hearing, she outlined model school siting guidelines developed by CHEJ’s Childproofing our Communities campaign. These include: 1) establishing a community-based school siting committee to recommend sites for building new schools; 2) creating a categorical exclusion to prohibit schools construction within 1,000 feet of a hazardous waste site or landfill; and 3) requiring state regulatory review of the environmental assessment of any proposed site. Currently, only California has passed legislation that requires the state regulatory agency to be involved in the environmental review of properties on which a school district proposes to construct a school. To read a complete transcript of the hearing go to http://www.senate.gov/~epw/stm1_107.htm#10-01-02 Additional information about CHEJ’s Childproofing our Communities Campaign can be found on www.childproofing.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To read CPEO's archived Brownfields messages visit http://www.cpeo.org/lists/brownfields If this email has been forwarded to you and you'd like to subscribe, please send a message to cpeo-brownfields-subscribe@igc.topica.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ==^==^============================================================= This email was sent to: cpeo-brownfields@npweb.craigslist.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2iS71.a3Z0sy Or send an email to: Reiki_Blessings-unsubscribe@topica.com T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^==^=============================================================
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