[CPEO-BIF] Brownfields funding - Youngstown, Ohio perspective

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mayor: More funding needed
Most small communities find the 20 percent share difficult or impossible 
to obtain.

By WILLIAM K. ALCORN
December 11, 2006
YOUNGSTOWN VINDICATOR (OH)

STRUTHERS — Federal and state programs aimed at reclaiming so-called 
brownfield property have the right idea, but not nearly enough funding 
to do the job, Mayor Daniel Mamula says.

The EPA's Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfield Revitalization 
Act was recently extended, as opposed to being reauthorized, for six 
years at the same funding level of $200 million annually.

...

Mamula said the federal brownfield program will fund up to $200,000 to 
clean up individual sites, but it requires a 20 percent share from the 
local community.

He said that illustrates two basic problems - the amount is inadequate 
to clean up most sites, and most small communities find the 20 percent 
share difficult or impossible to obtain.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.vindy.com/content/local_regional/360024173842432.php

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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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