[CPEO-BIF] Delaware funding

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Delaware environment: Cleaning up contamination
Markell calls for spending $5M of revenue surplus on 'brownfield'  
redevelopment


JEFF MONTGOMERY
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
May 13, 2011  |
Gov. Jack Markell called Friday for a $5 million boost to a program  
that supports cleanup and development of environmentally tainted  
properties in the administration's latest bid to shape choices for  
spending a $320 million revenue surplus.

Addressing some 250 people at a conference at the Center on the  
Riverfront in Wilmington, Markell said the investment in so-called  
"brownfields" would create jobs and boost the state's economy, a  
theme that he has mentioned repeatedly in a series of proposals for  
the surplus.

"What I'm proposing is an important investment in brownfield  
redevelopment and environmental cleanups that are going to create  
shovel-ready opportunities for development while making our  
communities safer and healthier," Markell said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/BL/20110514/NEWS02/105140360/ 
Cleaning-up-contamination?odyssey=nav%7Chead

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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