[CPEO-BIF] Taylor Colliery site, Taylor, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Kanjorski tours brownfields site
$400,000 grant will be used to reclaim and redevelop mine-scarred lands 
in Taylor.

By Rich Howells
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader (PA)
June 6, 2010

TAYLOR - The citizens of the borough of Taylor have been looking at the 
Taylor Colliery site as a large, rocky blight in the community for 
decades, but Congressman Paul Kanjorski toured the site on Thursday 
morning to see what $400,000 in brownfields grants from U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency will do to transform the land over the 
next several decades into useable, economically viable property.

Since 2004, the Taylor Colliery Redevelopment Project has worked to 
"reclaim" the former mining site, and Kanjorski was instrumental in 
securing two $200,000 grants that will be used for the cleanup and 
assessment of the 150 acres of mine-scarred land, which has not been 
used since 1966, and another 58 acres adjacent to the Colliery site, 
abandoned since 1968. After writing two letters to the EPA on behalf of 
the project, this was the first time he had seen the land for himself.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesleader.com/scrantonedition/news/Kanjorski_tours_brownfields_site_06-06-2010.html

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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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