2010 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:37:05 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Agri-Source Fuels, Dade City, Florida
 
Company seeks brownfield designation

By KEVIN WIATROWSKI
Tampa Tribune (FL)
October 30, 2010

The owners of a company that turns chicken-plant castoffs into a low-pollution form of diesel fuel are looking for federal help retooling their operation at the Dade City Business Center. Agri-Source Fuels LLC recently got Dade City and Pasco County to back its appeal to the Environmental Protection Agency for a brownfield designation. The designation would cover the 150-acre business center - the former Pasco Beverage Co. juice plant - and nearby portions of the Tommytown neighborhood.

By declaring the area a brownfield, city and county officials open the door to federal grants aimed at redeveloping the property.

The EPA got millions in stimulus dollars last year to redevelop brownfield properties - industrial sites that may have contamination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture also offers businesses financial help with brownfield sites.

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For the entire article, see
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/oct/30/PANEWSO1-company-seeks-brownfield-designation/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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