2021 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 11:52:45 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] New York state "DEC may allow Niagara County to foreclose on contaminated sites without paying to clean them"
 
DEC may allow Niagara County to foreclose on contaminated sites without paying to clean them

By Thomas J. Prohaska
Buffalo News (NY) 
December 29, 2020

For years, contaminated sites in Niagara County have been, in effect, exempt from property taxes, because the county wouldn't foreclose on them if the taxes went unpaid.

The reason was that taking title to a brownfield or other polluted site – or even one thought to be contaminated – would make the county liable for the costs of cleaning up the site.

Now the county says it has struck an agreement with the state Department of Environmental Conservation under which the county can foreclose on as many as 86 contaminated or possibly contaminated sites without being stuck with the remediation cost.

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For the entire article, see
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/dec-may-allow-niagara-county-to-foreclose-on-contaminated-sites-without-paying-to-clean-them/article_27896b2a-438e-11eb-81bb-43de6d24ce37.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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