[CPEO-MEF] Cuomo Unveils HUD E-Maps

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[This message was posted by Stella Bourassa, StellaVB@aol.com]

In reading this posting (she is refering to a 9/19/00 posting from the 
CPEO Brownfields listserve which is copied below), I am wondering:

Could this new application be implemented by local governments regarding 
FUDS/BRAC sites?

Due to having the environmental damage around long after those of us 
have 'passed on', a need to use IC/LUC's for an extended period of time, 
this would seem a viable solution for keeping track of these 
contaminated and dangerous sites.

Please advise!
Stella Bourassa

To: cpeo-brownfields@igc.topica.com
From: CPEO Moderator <cpeo@cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] CUOMO UNVEILS HUD E-MAPS
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:05:59 -0700
Message-ID: <0.700000379.607659376-212058698-969383159@topica.com>
Reply-To: cpeo@cpeo.org

To read the complete press release go to:
http://www.hud.gov/pressrel/pr00-247.html

CUOMO UNVEILS HUD E-MAPS 

WASHINGTON - Saying that "informed decisions are the best decisions,"
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo today unveiled a 
new application on HUD's website that will help people learn about
environmental matters that affect their communities throughout the U.S.

Need to know if the Environmental Protection Agency is monitoring a site 
near a home you want to buy? Or what federal resources can be marshaled 
to redevelop an abandoned factory or to protect a wetland in your town? 
Or want to know if there are any environmental hazards that your child 
walks by on the way to school?

Thanks to HUD E-MAPS, which was created by marrying HUD's Community 
2020TM software to EPA databases, the answers to these and thousands of 
other questions are now just a few mouse clicks away. [The web address 
is www.hud.gov/emaps].

The backbone for the application launched today is HUD's Community
2020TMsoftware, a CD-ROM that provides users with more than 600 types of 
census data for geographic areas as big as a state or as small as a 
block. Developed initially in 1997 as an internal project management 
tool, the software has won an Innovations in Government Award from the 
Ford Foundation and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

The software provides detailed, site-specific financial, managerial,
demographic and program information for virtually every entitlement or
competitive grant awarded by HUD since 1992. It includes information on 
single-family and multi-family housing projects assisted by HUD's 
Federal Housing Administration.

Through the use of HUD E-MAPS, people can obtain:

*  Site-specific information about all Superfund sites as well as
descriptions of the laws and regulations governing the Superfund 
program.
 
*  A listing and description of Brownfields, which are abandoned, idled 
or under-used industrial or commercial facilities where expansion or 
redevelopment is limited by real or perceived environmental 
contamination. Also included is information about Brownfields Tax 
Incentive Zones as well as the locations of its pilot programs. 

*  Reports about air pollution emitted from such sources as electric 
power plants, steel mills, factories, universities and others. 

*  Information that tracks which facilities use, manufacture, transport 
or release some 650 toxic chemicals, including information about air 
emissions, surface-water discharges, releases to land, underground 
injections and transfers to off-site locations. 

*  Information about businesses that generate, transport, treat, store 
and dispose of hazardous waste, including the status of permits, 
regulatory compliance and clean-up activities. 

*  Trend analyses of hazardous waste generation. 

*  Information about which companies have been issued permits to 
discharge waste water into the nation's rivers, including expiration 
date of the permit, how much a company is permitted to discharge, and 
how much and what the company has discharged.

To read the complete press release go to:
http://www.hud.gov/pressrel/pr00-247.html

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