[CPEO-BIF] Ohio Brownfields Inventory

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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
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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