[CPEO-BIF] Simon Silk Mill, Easton, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEP puts Simon Silk Mill cleanup on top of its to-do list
Brownfield Action Team has been assigned to the project.

By Tracy Jordan
Allentown Morning Call (PA)
August 17, 2006

Easton's Bushkill Creek Corridor moved up a notch on the state's list of 
redevelopment priorities Wednesday with the decision to fast-track the 
environmental cleanup of a rundown industrial site along N. 13th Street 
known as the Simon Silk Mill Complex.

State Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. 
McGinty visited the site Wednesday to announce the assignment of the 
Brownfield Action Team to the project to streamline the approval process.

"We get it [that] when it's time to take a program from dreams to 
fruition and jobs — time is money," McGinty said. "You'll be recognized 
as No. 1 — at the top of the pile."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/easton/all-b1_3silkaug17,0,2160586.story?coll=all-newslocaleaston-hed
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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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