[CPEO-BIF] Two sites completed in Rochester, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

News Release
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
October 13, 2010


DEC Certifies Completed Cleanups at Two Rochester Sites
City of Rochester and Erie Harbor Successfully Remove Contamination and 
Prepare Sites for Redevelopment



ALBANY, NY (readMedia)-- Two formerly contaminated brownfields in 
Rochester are officially cleaned up and poised for redevelopment, New 
York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner 
Pete Grannis announced today. The sites along Gregory Street and Mount 
Hope Avenue are the latest clean-ups completed under the state's 
Brownfield Cleanup Program, an initiative that provides significant 
benefits such as potential tax credits for the investigation and removal 
of pollution to help protect public health, enhance natural resources 
and increase opportunities for economic development.

"Now that years of past contamination have been properly addressed, 
these sites have a bright future," Commissioner Grannis said. "No matter 
the economic climate, it is always good policy to encourage economic 
investment in environmental priorities like the cleanup of polluted 
sites. Communities become safer, properties get back on the tax rolls 
and additional housing, commerce and other opportunities are created."


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For the entire release, see
http://readme.readmedia.com/DEC-Certifies-Completed-Cleanups-at-Two-Rochester-Sites/1747718

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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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