[CPEO-BIF] New York's Brownfields Cleanup Program

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A Cleanup That's Easier Legislated Than Done

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
New York Times
December 4, 2005

Two years ago, the New York State Legislature passed what it called the 
most significant environmental legislation in recent memory, the 
culmination of a seven-year effort to turn many long-abandoned 
industrial sites into usable properties.

The law, hailed by an unlikely coalition of environmentalists, 
government officials and real estate interests, seemed to set the stage 
for economic revitalization in neighborhoods blighted by such sites - in 
no small part because of tax incentives offered to developers willing to 
clean up the sites.

In New York City, where many former manufacturing neighborhoods were 
recently rezoned to allow for residential construction, there was hope 
that the legislation, known formally as the Brownfield Cleanup Program, 
would pave the way for badly needed housing.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/nyregion/04fields.html?oref=login
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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