[CPEO-BIF] "Middletown [Ohio] cleanup efforts may reduce with state change"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Middletown cleanup efforts may reduce with state change

By Michael D. Pitman
Middletown Journal (OH)
April 30, 2012

Middletown’s goal of cleaning up former industrial sites littered  
throughout the city could be hampered by a change in state policy.

Officials said JobsOhio’s goal to change brownfield remediation  
funding from a grant-based program to offering low-interest loans  
would reduce the number projects around the state that are started  
next year.

Middletown has relied on grants from the state in the past to clean  
up former industrial sites like Aeronca and a non-industrial site  
like Middletown Regional Hospital. The city’s goal is to make these  
sites available for future development and job growth.

On July 1, the state will hand the Clean Ohio Brownfield Remediation  
program to JobsOhio, the nonprofit formed by Gov. John Kasich in 2011  
to focus on job creation. The project has been operated by the  
state’s department of development since the Clean Ohio program was  
voted on in 2000.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/middletown-news/middletown- 
cleanup-efforts-may-reduce-with-state-change-1368371.html

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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
Fax: 650-961-8918
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