[CPEO-BIF] Southeast Iowa

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Program IDs brownfield sites
Brownfields offers info on environmental impact.

By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES
Burlington Hawk Eye (IA)
July 27, 2008

Before brownfields were recognized as such, ignorance was bliss.

Knowing a property had environmental issues made the owner liable for 
any cleanup. So property owners afraid of massive costs, chose either to 
ignore or abandon the property.

Then, in 1995, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency realized its 
laws were preventing cleanup and possible economic redevelopment.

"So the brownfields funding was developed as a mechanism to spur some 
assessment activity on these properties without incurring a superfund 
liability to get them to the point where they could be developed," said 
John Brimeyer, environmental department manager for Terracon Consulting 
Engineers and Scientists.

Now, using grant money, regions like southeast Iowa can take advantage 
of this new, zero-accountability program.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/brownfields-072708

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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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