[CPEO-BIF] "Past success has Tennessee concerned about federal brownfield cuts"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Past success has Tennessee concerned about federal brownfield cuts

by Steve Ahillen 
Knoxville News-Sentinel (TN)
April 28, 2017

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation has called federal brownfields grants the “unsung hero of Tennessee’s economic resurgence.”

Now, with proposed major slashes to the Environmental Protection Agency, TDEC is hoping that hero doesn’t ride off into the sunset.

Brownfields grants are administered through an EPA program begun in 1995 that provides funds for inspection and cleanup of contaminated sites so that they can be used in redevelopment projects.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/tennessee/2017/04/28/past-success-has-tennessee-concerned-federal-brownfields-cuts/100921572/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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