[CPEO-BIF] "Niagara County [New York] urges brownfield program extension"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Niagara County urges brownfield program extension
Move follows Cuomo veto

by Christian W. Peck
Niagara County Public Information Office
January 21, 2015

Niagara County lawmakers unanimously called on state legislators to overcome Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's veto of legislation renewing the state's dozen-year-old brownfield cleanup program, which effectively canceled a set of tax credits that has spurred more than half a billion dollars in private investment in Niagara County.

The move follows Sunday statements by the Cuomo administration that renewal of the tax credit program would receive the governor's backing, but only in severely financially distressed areas of the state. Cuomo previously vetoed a bipartisan bill passed by both the Democrat-controlled Assembly and Republican-controlled Senate extending the program Dec. 29, six months after both houses voted to extend the robust, successful tax credit program.

Niagara County's actions also come on the heels of the rollout of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership's regional agenda, which declared renewal of the program a "top regional economic development priority."

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For the entire release, see
http://www.wnypapers.com/news/article/current/2015/01/21/119264/niagara-county-urges-brownfield-program-extension

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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