[CPEO-BIF] General Motors Powertrain site, Massena, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

N.Y. brownfield grants sought for GM cleanup

By BRIAN HAYDEN
JOHNSON NEWSPAPERS/Watertown Daily Times (NY)
January 30, 2011


MASSENA - Those involved in redeveloping the General Motors Powertrain 
plant are looking to secure hundreds of thousands of dollars in state 
funds to help move the process forward.

Members of the North Country Redevelopment Task Force are trying to land 
a Brownfield Opportunity Area grant through the state Department of 
State. The task force discussed the brownfield program at a meeting 
Thursday in Town Hall. J. Patrick Turbett, task force chairman, said the 
money will go a long way toward marketing the site for businesses or reuses.

The brownfield grants typically range from $200,000 to $500,000. Funds 
would be used to hire an entity, such as a consulting firm, that could 
determine the best ways the site could be used and marketed, Mr. Turbett 
said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20110130/NEWS05/301309952

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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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