[CPEO-BIF] Vermont brownfields program

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development
June 18, 2013

Gov. Shumlin announces innovative program to jumpstart brownfield  
redevelopment

BURLINGTON - Gov. Peter Shumlin, EPA New England Brownfields Director  
Carol Tucker and Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger, along with  
representatives from Vermont’s congressional delegation, launched a  
new program today that will advance the redevelopment of brownfields,  
former industrial or commercial properties that are contaminated from  
historical uses making it difficult or impossible to put them to new  
uses. In addition, six Vermont organizations redeveloping brownfields  
were awarded funding for that work from the U.S. Environmental  
Protection Agency.

The program, called the Brownfield Economic Revitalization Alliance  
(BERA), will be jointly administered by Vermont's Agency of Commerce  
and Community Development (ACCD), and Agency of Natural Resources  
(ANR). BERA was created to quickly and efficiently move complex  
brownfield projects to redevelopment, fostering new economic  
opportunities as a result. Three sites were selected by a team of  
public and private sector representatives as the first BERA projects.  
The first is the former Fonda property in St. Albans, the second is  
the Railyard Enterprise Project in Burlington, and the third is the  
453 Pine Street parcel in Burlington.

In addition, Gov. Shumlin signed H.226, which extends the Petroleum  
Clean-up Fund and strengthens Vermont’s brownfield laws. Among the  
most significant aspects of the new law is a provision giving  
Regional Development Corporations and Regional Planning Commissions  
liability protection when they take ownership of brownfield properties.

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For the entire release, see
http://vtdigger.org/2013/06/19/gov-shumlin-announces-innovative- 
program-to-jumpstart-brownfield-redevelopment/

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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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