[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey loan legislation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup measure clears hurdle in Trenton

By Rebecca Forand
Gloucester County Times (NJ)
November 5, 2010

Municipalities could have the ability to get funding to clean up 
contaminated sites through a bill that is currently moving through the 
Legislature.

The state Assembly has already approved a bill that will allow 
municipalities to apply for no-interest loans in order to remediate 
brownfield development areas, properties that are complicated to 
redevelop or expand due to the possible presence of contaminants or 
hazardous substances.

There are currently 31 brownfield development areas in the state, 
totaling more than 3,290 acres of land. One property, the Fazio-Deptford 
Landfill, a 70-acre site, lies partially in Gloucester County.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/gloucester/index.ssf?/base/news-16/128894552297010.xml&coll=8

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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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