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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Task force focuses on tainted sites

Kaija Wilkinson 
Birmingham Business Journal (AL)
August 26, 2005

The Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham's Brownfield
Redevelopment Task Force plans to unveil a database next year to market
abandoned industrial sites to developers. So-called "brownfields" are
sites that have, or may have, significant environmental contamination. 

A prototype of the database, which will be accessible via the Web, is
being developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Mobile using a
$60,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant. 

The system was introduced earlier this month during a meeting at the
Alabama Power Co. building downtown. 

The 20-member task force, which has been meeting about once a month for
the past two years, is in the process of determining what information
will be in the database. The site already includes a geographical
imaging system, or GIS, map and information about the properties in
Alabama that have received EPA assessment grants. 

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For the entire article, see
http://birmingham.bizjournals.com/birmingham/stories/2005/08/29/story5.html?jst=pn_pn_lk

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