[CPEO-BIF] Sacramento, California railyard cleanup plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State approves key railyard cleanup plan; owner objects

By Tony Bizjak
Sacramento Bee (CA)
July 4, 2013

After years of rewrites and delays, state environmental officials on  
Wednesday approved a long-awaited plan for toxic cleanup of the  
central shops section of the downtown Sacramento railyard.

The state authorization is seen as a key step in readying the 240- 
acre railyard for development as an extension of downtown with  
housing, offices and stores, as well as a major railroad technology  
museum.

But the state's decision left one major downtown player upset - the  
railyard's current owner, Inland American Real Estate Trust.

Inland and Sacramento city officials had lobbied the state Department  
of Toxic Substances Control to require former railyard owner Union  
Pacific to cover any future costs for as-yet undiscovered extra  
contamination in the central shops area.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/04/5544278/state-approves-key-railyard- 
cleanup.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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