[CPEO-BIF] Michigan's process

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

DEQ expects lengthy cleanup process for most brownfield sites

by Stephanie Schneider
Spinal Column (MI)
December 19, 2007

Above-ground contaminated sites, known as brownfields, often take years 
to clean up. Many of these sites are on record with the Michigan 
Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ); and cleanup is the 
responsibility of the site's owner and can be very costly. Polluted 
sites with no current owner are cleaned up by the DEQ itself, but a lack 
of funding often slows that remediation process.

These sites are found all over Michigan, and may be closer than the 
public thinks.

Brownfield sites are covered under Part 201 of the Natural Resources and 
Environmental Protection Act (NREPA), Michigan's environmental statute.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.spinalcolumnonline.com/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2007-12-19&-token.story=54359.113117&-nothing

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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