[CPEO-BIF] Oregon brownfields legislation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

2015 Legislature: Salem gets serious about redeveloping brownfields


by Wendy Culverwell
Portland Business Journal (OR)
April 8, 2015

A new coalition is hoping to have more success convincing Oregon lawmakers to tackle brownfield sites in 2015 than it did in 2013.

The Oregon Brownfields Coalition is advancing two bills and pushing the Oregon Legislature to re-capitalize a key fund to clean up the thousands of contaminated sites that dot the state.

Randy Tucker, legislative affairs manager and lobbyist for the regional government Metro, is serving as informal spokesman for the coalition. Tucker said the group formed after the 2013 Legislature, when a loose group of agencies interested in brownfields failed to secure support for a variety of initiatives.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/sbo/2015/04/2015-legislature-salem-gets-serious-about.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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