My experience in federal land use issues is that the government
requires clean up to the highest and best use of the property and if that determination
is for an un-manned solar power grid why would anyone expect the clean up
standard to be that of a child care center or residential housing.
Paul Hirsch, President
Madison
Government Affairs, Inc.
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From: brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org
[mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On
Behalf Of Ed Morales
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
3:39 PM
To: Trilling, Barry;
lsiegel@cpeo.org; Brownfields Internet Forum
Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Solar
Brownfields
I would contend that brownfield clean-up
is generally risk-based and is a function of the end-use. That said, it
probably does not make sense to clean-up to a resi or commercial standard if
the end-use is an un-manned solar power grid.
From:
brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org [mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Trilling, Barry
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
12:14 PM
To: lsiegel@cpeo.org; Brownfields
Internet Forum
Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Solar
Brownfields
Lenny: I don't
understand why you suspect that otherwise applicable remediation standards will
be lowered for the development of solar installations. Can you please
elaborate?
Barry
Barry J.
Trilling
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From: brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org
[mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Lenny Siegel
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:06 PM
To: Brownfields Internet Forum
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Solar Brownfields
[I am concerned that solar generation plants will
provide landowners
with an excuse not to do necessary cleanup. While
centralized solar
thermal facilities generally require dedicated land
surface,
photovoltaic systems work as well or better when
located on rooftops or
parking-lot canopies, as opposed to the land surface.
- Lenny]
US targets brownfield sites for solar makeover
Projects in California
and Ohio
highlight growing use of disused urban
sites for solar installations
Cath Everett
BusinessGreen
July 28, 2009
The US
is to explore the possibility of recycling its old brownfield
sites as prime locations for new solar power
generating facilities.
Riverside
and San Bernadino counties, which are located between Los
Angeles and San Diego
in California,
are currently in talks with solar
power companies about redeveloping both closed and
capped landfill sites
as well as land currently housing derelict public
buildings.
The move follows the submission of bids by the
providers in April, but
has been accelerated by the US Department of the
Interior's announcement
last month that it was looking for large tracts of
land to site 24
solar-energy study zones.
...
For the entire article, see
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246836/targets-brownfield-sites-solar
--
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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