[CPEO-BIF] Connecticut Brownfields spending

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State lags on spending for brownfield cleanup


BY PAUL HUGHES
WATERBURY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN (CT)
March 1, 2010

HARTFORD -- State spending on cleaning up brownfields remains well below 
the amounts that have been recommended and requested since 2006.

The Rell administration just released $2.25 million for a second round 
of grants under the Municipal Brownfield Pilot Program -- a fraction of 
what was originally proposed four years ago.

The Department of Economic and Community Development distributed only 
$2.25 million in the first round two years ago. The largest grant was 
for $450,000.

This $4.5 million is barely more than a quarter of the $16 million that 
the state's Brownfields Task Force initially recommended in its first 
report to the legislature in 2006.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2010/03/01/news/local/469596.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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