[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey DEP and the National Brownfield Association

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEP lends top staffer to nonprofit

BY ALEXANDER LANE
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
March 26, 2006

The state Department of Environmental Protection has lent an employee to 
a nonprofit group dominated by the types of businesses that seek 
approvals from the department. The one-year assignment has prompted 
complaints from environmentalists, who say it blurs the line between 
regulators and those they regulate.

Susan Boyle, a DEP hazardous site manager, will spend 2006 as chief 
operating officer for the National Brownfield Association, an 
organization that promotes the redevelopment of toxic sites into 
housing, hotels and other commercial uses.

The job swap came through the state's Employee Interchange Program, 
which usually lends workers to other government agencies. Boyle is the 
first program participant since at least 1997, the earliest year for 
which the state has records, to go to work for a private organization.

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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