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[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Yonkers, Rochester clash over brownfield program

Jay Gallagher
Lower Hudson Journal News (NY)
April 12, 2008

The mayors of Yonkers and Rochester find themselves poles apart over how 
to clean up contaminated former industrial sites known as "brownfields."

The debate will resume next week at the Capitol.

Yonkers Mayor Philip Amicone wants to keep the current program, which 
has committed hundreds of millions of dollars to only a few developers 
in the past few years.

But Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy backs a proposal by Gov. David Paterson 
to cap the amount that can be awarded to a developer so that more sites 
can be cleaned up with existing state funds.

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For the entire article, see
http://lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080412/NEWS02/804120354/-1/SPORTS

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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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