[CPEO-BIF] Grannis urges New York state legislative changes

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

DEC commissioner urges fix for pollution cleanup program

By Tom Wanamaker
Catskill Daily Mail (NY)
June 9, 2008

ALBANY - Environmental activists are pushing for action on reforming New 
York's brownfield cleanup laws before the end of the legislative session 
in two weeks.

At a press conference in Albany Monday, advocates joined Alexander B. 
"Pete" Grannis, commissioner of the Department of Environmental 
Conservation, in voicing support for Program Bill 51, Gov. David A. 
Paterson's proposed legislation to revamp the state's current, and 
largely ineffective, brownfield remediation statutes.

"We must reform the brownfield cleanup program to make it smarter, more 
effective and more accountable to taxpayers," Grannis said. "The goal is 
to target limited public dollars for the best use and the best return."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thedailymail.net/articles/2008/06/09/news/news4.txt

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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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