[CPEO-BIF] Franklin County, MA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Brownfield' sites assessed, cleaned

By DAVID A. VALLETTE
Springfield Republican (MA) 
November 14, 2005

GREENFIELD - A dozen Franklin County "brownfield" sites are in various
stages of assessment or cleanup. 

With more cooperation from property owners and an injection of federal
funds, more may join the list. 

"It's a scary thing for property owners to let us on to their private
property to see what's there," said Margaret M. Sloan, director of
planning and development for the Franklin Regional Council of
Governments, this week. 

They fear the cleanup costs they might be responsible for if something
is found, she said. 

Sloan said that those who balk, however, may be just delaying the
inevitable. They could end up having to pay the assessment costs
themselves, rather than through a brownfields grant. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.masslive.com/hampfrank/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-2/113195781644470.xml&coll=1

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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
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