[CPEO-BIF] New York releases funds

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Funds to aid pollution cleanups
$829,000 awarded locally as state leaders agree on grants to help with 
brownfield sites

By BRIAN NEARING,
Albany Times Union (NY)
March 8, 2008

ALBANY -- Millions of dollars under an innovative state law meant to 
help local communities clean polluted industrial legacies emerged late 
Friday after nearly three years frozen in bureaucratic limbo.

The state's three most powerful politicians -- Gov. Eliot Spitzer, 
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. 
Bruno -- agreed to release $7.25 million under the Brownfield 
Opportunity Area program.

"We are happy that the money is finally going to be released to 
communities that have been waiting," said Mathy Stanislaus, co-director 
of New Partners for Community Revitalization, a not-for-profit lobbying 
group that complained about the logjam earlier this week.

The program, the first of its kind in the nation when adopted in 2003, 
is intended to help low-income communities plan cleanups of multiple 
brownfield sites.

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For the entire article, see
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=670212&category=STATE&BCCode=&newsdate=3/8/2008

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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
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