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Some of the recent news articles Lenny has been forwarding seem to suggest that state and federal brownfield funds are being used to cleanup sites where there still seems to be a viable corporate PRP--indeed in one article, the corporate owner opened a new plant in the same state and left the mess associated with its shuttered plant to the taxpayers.
I can see using brownfield assessment grants to help local governments develop re-use plans. However, is it really good use of increasingly limited public funds to use them to cleanup sites where the responsible corporate entity (or its successor) is still available? I can see advancing the funds if there is a committment on the part of the state or EPA to pursue cost recovery but to give away $$ when there is still a viable corportate entity seems to create an incentive for corporations to continue to shudder old plants and export jobs overseas. Seems like we are creating a moral hazard.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lenny Siegel [mailto:lsiegel@cpeo.org]
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 05:45 PM
To: larry@schnapflaw.com
Subject: Re: [CPEO-BIF] Uniroyal-Facemate site, Chicopee, Massachussetts
Larry, Why don't you send your comments (on both articles) to the list? Lenny larry@schnapflaw.com wrote: > > > L > Schnapf Law Offices > 55 East 87th Street, Ste. 8B > New York, NY 10128 > 212-756-2205 (p) > 646-468-8483 (c) > Larry@SchnapfLaw.com > http://www.SchnapfLaw.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lenny Siegel [mailto:lsiegel@cpeo.org] > Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 01:56 PM > To: 'Brownfields Internet Forum' > Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Uniroyal-Facemate site, Chicopee, Massachussetts > > Chicopee gets more Brownfield Redevelopment Fund money for Uniroyal, > Facemate clean-up Sandra Constantine Springfield Republican (MA) > November 26, 2010 CHICOPEE - MassDevelopment has released an > additional $300,000 in funds from the state’s Brownfield > Redevelopment Fund for two cleanup projects at the Uniroyal-Facemate > site, according to the mayor’s office. Mayor Michael D. Bissonnette > announced the news earlier this week, outlining the work to be done. > Corporate Environmental Advisors Inc. of West Boylston will be > awarded a contract to complete removal of three underground storage > tanks at the site. The tanks - one is 240,000 gallons and the other > two are 20,000 gallons - had been used to store No. 6 fuel oil when > the site was still in operation. ... For the entire article, see > http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/chicopee_gets_more_brownfield.html > -- 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 http://www.cpeo.org > _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing > list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org > http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org -- 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 http://www.cpeo.org
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