[CPEO-BIF] "Oregon Legislature passes bill to spur cleanup, redevelopment of contaminated land"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Oregon Legislature passes bill to spur cleanup, redevelopment of contaminated land

By Justin Sherrill
Metro News (OR)
March 4, 2016

Cleaning up contaminated properties for reuse is often a costly proposal, but a unanimously-supported bill could lower some of the financial hurdles to the process. 

There are thousands of them scattered across Oregon: parcels of polluted property blighting the landscape and posing potential threats to human health and local ecosystems. They’re called “brownfields”, and they can impact communities even beyond the environmental hazards they pose: depressing property values, degrading community livability and standing in the way of economic development.

But communities concerned with cleaning up and reusing brownfields could have something to celebrate this week as legislation seeking to create new incentives for brownfield cleanup passed unanimously in the Oregon Senate Monday, a week after receiving unanimous approval in the Oregon House of Representatives.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonmetro.gov/news/oregon-legislature-passes-bill-spur-cleanup-redevelopment-contaminated-land

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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