2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:34:22 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Ohio Brownfields Inventory
 
OEPA Posts Brownfield Inventory Online

Youngstown Business Journal
April 18, 2011

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled a new online tool to help business identify and develop brownfield properties.

Businesses can use the database to easily look up available properties, learn what infrastructure services are already developed on those sites and what environmental investigation and cleanup has been done. And communities will find the Web site a useful tool for planning or promoting new development for local brownfield sites, EPA officials said.

Brownfield properties are abandoned, idled or under-utilized properties and can be unmaintained, often with owners no longer paying taxes.

Many sites listed in the inventory are already cleaned up and ready for use, while others may be close to completing a cleanup, or have one or two phases of cleanup completed. Contaminated properties without any investigation or cleanup work performed are not likely to be listed on the brownfield inventory since it targets properties that have been identified as "redevelopment ready" projects.

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For the entire article, see
http://business-journal.com/oepa-posts-brownfield-inventory-online- p18985-1.htm

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