[CPEO-BIF] Final Report on CPEO's "Community to Community" Brownfields Assistance Project

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Final Report: “Community to Community” Brownfields Assistance Project
October, 2013

The Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO), a project of  
the Pacific Studies Center, is concluding its five-year “Community to  
Community Brownfields Assistance Project, supported by a Research,  
Training, and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement  
(#TR-83415001) from U.S. EPA’s Office of Brownfields and Land  
Revitalization. Among other accomplishments, under this project CPEO  
has conducted 116 field visits to 71 communities in 20 states,  
published 28 on-line field visit reports, circulated nearly 2,700  
messages on its Brownfields Internet Forum, maintained its Technology  
Tree remediation/characterization technology data base, and provided  
scholarships enabling more than 210 environmental justice  
participants to attend  the last three national Brownfields  
Conferences. CPEO Executive Director Lenny Siegel spoke at numerous  
conferences and provided information to a large number of reporters,  
conveying community concerns and clarifying technical issues.

The objectives of CPEO’s Brownfields program are to educate community  
stakeholders about the brownfields cleanup and revitalization  
process, to empower them to participate effectively, and to learn and  
communicate concerns expressed by those stakeholders to government  
officials and other brownfields professionals.

In pursuing those closely related objectives, CPEO emphasizes field  
work: visits to communities and continuing communications with  
community representatives. ...


To read the entire 8-page report, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/Community-to-Community.pdf

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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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