[CPEO-BIF] Sen. Brown [OH] pushes brownfield legislation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sen. Brown pushes brownfield legislation

WKBN (Youngstown, OH)
July 17, 2013,

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown hosted a teleconference Wednesday talking  
about Brownfield sites across the state and the country. There are  
more than 250 of the sites in Ohio and Brown is proposing new  
legislation that would provide additional tools for communities to  
clean up the old industrial sites for economic re-development.

"These brownfields don't belong in neighborhoods where children walk  
to school. They don’t belong in communities where businesses seek new  
customers," Brown said.

Brown is urging Congress to pass the Brownfields Utilization,  
Investment and Local Development Act. The legislation would modernize  
and improve key elements of the EPA’s brownfields program, which  
includes making non-profit groups eligible for assessment grants and  
allows the EPA to award multipurpose grants to help speed up  
redevelopment and streamline the clean-up process.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.wkbn.com/2013/07/17/senator-pushes-brownfield-legislation/

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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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