[CPEO-BIF] New York State legislative reform

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Unshackle Upstate pushes Albany on brownfield reform

by Kevin Tampone
Central New York Business Journal
May 9, 2008
  	
SYRACUSE - Unshackle Upstate is pushing state lawmakers to overhaul New 
York's brownfield-redevelopment program before the end of the current 
legislative session in June.

Unshackle Upstate is a coalition of more than 70 upstate business and 
trade groups representing more than 45,000 employers and 1.5 million 
workers. The group regularly advocates on issues affecting business.

Local leaders of the effort held a press conference May 5 and called on 
legislators to wrap up work on brownfield legislation.

The state Senate and the governor have both put forward proposals to 
reform the state's brownfield programs; the Assembly is expected to do 
so as well, Unshackle Upstate leaders said. This year's budget imposed a 
90-day moratorium on new brownfield redevelopment applications while 
lawmakers worked through overhauling the system. Unshackle Upstate 
leaders said they want to make sure that overhaul gets done quickly.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.cnybj.com/fullstory.cfm?article_id=6918&return=frontpage.cfm

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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