[CPEO-BIF] New York State Department of Environmental Conservation cutbacks

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Governor's budget could reduce DEC pollution monitoring, critics charge

By Krisy Gashler
Ithaca Journal (NY)
February 8, 2010

While Gov. David Paterson's proposed 2011 budget would increase staff 
overseeing gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, it would cut almost 
twice as many staff regulating other environmental cleanups, such as 
those in the Superfund and Brownfield programs.

Paterson has called for adding 35 new staff positions to oversee gas 
drilling -- 29 of them in the Department of Environmental Conservation 
(DEC) -- but his budget also anticipates losing 54 full-time positions 
elsewhere in the DEC through attrition by the end of 2011, a DEC 
spokeswoman confirmed.

...

That assessment, based on draft recommendations by DEC's fiscal office 
and top management, anticipates that DEC would have to "discontinue 
field work related to vapor intrusion investigations at Superfund sites 
where a remedial decision was previously made and limit or discontinue 
field oversight of remedial efforts underway to address vapor intrusion 
at such Superfund sites."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20100208/NEWS01/2080353/Governor+s+budget+could+reduce+DEC+pollution+monitoring++critics+charge

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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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