[CPEO-BIF] Protano Auto site, Dekalb, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Future of contaminated Protano site unclear
IEPA not taking applications for grant program

By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN
Dekalb Daily Chronicle (IL)
January 28, 2016 

DeKALB – The city can’t clean up the contaminated site that formerly housed Protano Auto without some kind of funding, but the grant program that contributed to the project in the past isn’t accepting applications. 

“It’s still on the books but the legislature is unable to fund it,” said Steve Colantino, manager of the office of brownfield assistance with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. “We don’t even accept applications for it right now.” 

According to the IEPA website, a brownfield is a parcel of real property, or a portion of the parcel, that has actual or perceived contamination and an active potential for redevelopment. Brownfields are abandoned, unused, or underused industrial and commercial properties. The properties vary in size, location, age and past use. They can be anything from a 500-acre closed steel mill to a small abandoned corner gas station.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2016/01/27/future-of-contaminated-protano-site-unclear/aix4ks/

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