[CPEO-BIF] Former General Motors plant, Dayton, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA change saves Dayton millions

By Thomas Gnau
Dayton Daily News (OH)
February 24, 2010

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is withdrawing from oversight 
of development at Tech Town, Dayton's high-tech business park, leaving 
oversight to the Ohio EPA, government officials said Wednesday, Feb. 24.

It's not just a bureaucratic shift, city officials said. The move means 
that once Dayton becomes the owner of Tech Town, it won't have to pay 
back $6 million in Clean Ohio funds that had helped with clean-up of the 
former General Motors site.

Under federal rules, if Dayton had been owner of the site under federal 
jurisdiction, it would not have been eligible for state funds — so the 
city would have had to re-pay state funds already received.
Matt Joseph, a Dayton city commissioner, called the news "huge."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/epa-change-saves-dayton-millions-566340.html?showComments=true

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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
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