[CPEO-BIF] Senate Brownfields legislation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Senate Panel Passes Interior-Environment Spending Bill 

June 10 -- On June 9, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a
$28.3 billion spending bill (currently unnumbered) funding Department of
Interior and environmental programs. The full Senate is expected to
debate the bill during the week of June 13. 

The bill provides $100 million more in funding than its House
counterpart (HR 2361), which was passed on May 19, but $500 million less
than current funding. 

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Total brownfields spending equals $165 million, $45 million under the
administration proposal but equal to current spending; the House measure
proposes $171.6 million. 

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To see the full article, see
http://www.nado.org/legaffair/brnfield.html#senate

See also, on the same page:

NADO Joins Effort to Increase Brownfield Funding, Remove Administrative
Restrictions 

June 9 -- On May 27, NADO joined with a coalition of local official and
development organizations urging Senate Interior and Environmental
Appropriations subcommittee chairman Conrad Burns (R-MT) and ranking
member Byron Dorgan (D-SD) to provide full funding of $250 million for
the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) brownfields program and to
eliminate administrative cost prohibition for brownfields grants in the
panel's fiscal 2006 spending measure. 

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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