[CPEO-BIF] Flint, Michigan reuse carve-out

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

What Red Tape? Auto Community Czar Gets Results
Mr. Montgomery Helps Areas Hurt by Struggling Car Industry Find 
Shortcuts to Redevelop Environmentally Damaged Sites


By MELANIE TROTTMAN
Wall Street Journal
DECEMBER 14, 2009


When worries about environmental cleanup costs stalled plans to 
redevelop an abandoned auto factory in Flint, Michigan Gov. Jennifer 
Granholm called Edward Montgomery.

Mr. Montgomery, President Barack Obama's auto-communities recovery czar, 
cut through the bureaucracy at the Environmental Protection Agency, and 
brought officials from the EPA's Washington office to meet with Flint 
officials to get a deal done.

The solution: Carve out the part of the 700-acre site with the worst 
contamination, and clear the rest for potential sale to investors who 
have told the city they would create a multipurpose facility that would 
employ as many as 500 people in hard-hit Michigan. A process that could 
have taken years wound up taking just a few months.

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For the entire article, see
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126075773778290049.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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