2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 14:35:16 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Katko [R-NY] wants to preserve EPA's Brownfields program, eyes $250M for cleanup grants"
 
Katko wants to preserve EPA's Brownfields program, eyes $250M for cleanup grants
	
by Robert Harding 
Auburn Citizen (NY)
March 30, 2017 

As President Donald Trump seeks to slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields program, U.S. Rep. John Katko wants to preserve the initiative - and fund it at higher levels than it receives now. 

Katko, R-Camillus, and U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, a Connecticut Democrat, unveiled legislation Thursday that reauthorizes the Brownfields program, which technically expired in 2006, through fiscal year 2022. The members of Congress also want $250 million a year to fund the program and increase the cleanup grant amounts from $200,000 to $600,000. 

The bill would also expand eligibility to include community development organizations, limited liability corporations and nonprofits. 

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For the entire article, see
http://auburnpub.com/blogs/eye_on_ny/katko-wants-to-preserve-epa-s-brownfields-program-eyes-m/article_c329294a-1556-11e7-a360-4348179c9395.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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