[CPEO-BIF] Enviros criticize New York draft regs

["lsiegel@cpeo.org" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hard line taken on rules for cleanups

Residents at state hearing urge strict standards for brownfields

Misty Edgecomb
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
March 10, 2006

BRIGHTON ? "Clean" is a relative term when it comes to the pollution that
makes dozens of contaminated Rochester properties, known as brownfields,
unappealing to developers.

And local residents and environmental activists Thursday told state
officials that they won't settle for "clean enough" in new state rules that
define when a brownfields remediation project is complete.

"If we're going to clean up these toxic waste sites, we need to clean them
fully," said Karen Schwartzman of Fairport during a public hearing at
Monroe Community College.

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See also
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/031006Brownfields.html

-- 
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
http://www.cpeo.org



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