2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:14:51 -0800
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Owasco River sites, Auburn, New York
 
Council to vote on brownfield projects

By Jessica Soule
Auburn Citizen (NY)
December 12, 2007

Only two Auburn City Council business meetings remain this year before
two newly elected members come aboard and two others leave.

Although council faces changes, it will vote on a few items that may
change the city's future.

The first, is a vote that would allow the staff to apply for a grant
that may lead to the renovation of two former factory sites and possible
redevelopment.

The city wants to get money to renovate two potentially environmentally
hazardous properties of former factories along the Owasco River.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation created the
Environmental Restoration Program to clean brownfields. If awarded, the
state grants would reimburse the city for up to 90 percent of on-site
eligible costs and all of the off-site eligible costs for investigation
and remediation.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2007/12/11/news/local_news/news02.txt

-- 


Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org





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