The 110th Congress: How Did Brownfields Fare?
By Charlie Bartsch
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 The 110th Congress left town for good in early October after grappling with a significant economic crisis that consumed the last several weeks of the session and left a number of legislative proposals, including reauthorization of the EPA brownfield program, on the back burner.
Although the outgoing 110th Congress considered a number of brownfield proposals during its two- year stretch, at the end of the day very little was finalized with direct application to the brownfield marketplace—we saw no brownfield program reauthorization, no permanent brownfield tax incentive passed, and no BEDI de-coupling effort enacted.
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