[CPEO-BIF] Oregon land bank legislation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield bill could put Oregon cities in the land bank biz

by Wendy Culverwell
Portland Business Journal (OR)
Jun 5, 2015

The Oregon House has signed off on new legislation that would help local governments clean up contaminated sites such as old gas stations, dry cleaners , factories and more.

House Bill 2734, now headed to the Senate, would let local governments create land banks to facilitate cleanup of contaminated sites across Oregon.

The Oregon Brownfields Coalition estimates more than 13,000 such sites blight rural and urban areas alike. Only 35 percent have been either assessed or cleaned up.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/sbo/2015/06/brownfield-bill-could-put-oregon-cities-in-the.html

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