[CPEO-BIF] Clean Ohio program streamlines

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Clean Ohio promising quicker turnaround in revamped program

by Brian R. Ball
Columbus Business First (OH)
March 7, 2013

The Clean Ohio Council has streamlined its brownfield incentive  
programs even as it scaled back its annual funding to assess and  
remediate environmental hazards.

But funding is expect to get moved out quicker to encourage  
redevelopment of sites with environmental issues. The program co- 
managed by the council, the Ohio Development Services Agency and  
JobsOhio will offer $15 million through an open cycle rather than  
competitive rounds used for the former Clean Ohio Assistance Fund and  
Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund programs that for the decade through  
2011 offered about $55 million in combined annual funding.

Development Services spokeswoman Stephanie Gostomski said the program  
will operate on rolling cycles to allow funding to get funneled to  
projects faster.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2013/03/07/clean-ohio- 
promising-quicker.html

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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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