[CPEO-BIF] El Paso (TX) Brownfileds money "gone begging"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tough sell
Brownfields money 'has gone begging'

Vic Kolenc
El Paso Times (TX)
April 2, 2006

Steven Silver and Sergio Guerrero Jr. have spent the past few months 
trying to find someone to use an almost 4-year-old, $1 million loan fund 
designed to help developers clean up and redevelop environmentally 
contaminated buildings and vacant land known as "brownfields."

No one has received or even applied for a low-interest loan from the 
fund in the almost four years since the Environmental Protection Agency 
awarded the city $1 million for the loan fund, Silver and Guerrero said.

There was "no concerted effort to get (brownfield) redevelopment 
started," said Silver, executive director of Groundwork El Paso, a 
5-month-old nonprofit environmental organization. The city gave it a 
six-month contract late last year to take over administration of the 
city Brownfields Redevelopment Program. Redeveloping brownfields is part 
of Groundwork's mission.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.elpasotimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060402/BUSINESS/604020350/1003

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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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