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Developing brownfields called best approach

By Don Hopey
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
August 15, 2006

Reuse of old, abandoned industrial sites, like those in Ambridge,
remains a high federal priority, said U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency administrator Stephen Johnson. But lack of funding continues to
hamper such projects.

Mr. Johnson, speaking to a crowd of 100 at yesterday's "Brownfields in
Our Neighborhoods 2001-2006: Stronger Than Steel" workshop in Ambridge,
said the Bush administration has asked for additional funding to
accelerate brownfield redevelopment, but has not received it from
Congress because of "other funding issues pressing on the federal budget."

...

Most of the Ambridge brownfield that was the focus of the 2001 workshop,
on a 60-acre site in the central part of the borough formerly occupied
by several steel manufacturers, was recently purchased by Australian
businessman Robert Moltoni.

Mr. Moltoni has spent $4 million of his own money to match a $3.5
million state grant to prepare the site for a mixed-use industrial,
commercial and residential development that will cost up to $80 million.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06227/713549-85.stm

-- 
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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