Big Apple, Big Brownfield Ambitions
By Mark P. McIntyre
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 This fall New York City will open a local voluntary cleanup program for light to moderately contaminated sites that state programs generally exclude. The city has also created the nation's first local brownfield office, vesting broad authority to develop brownfields in a single unit of local government.
The Office of Environmental Remediation will function as a regulatory agency, managing two significant cleanup programs. It will administer a system of grants to advance brownfield projects. It will facilitate the revitalization of neighborhoods with clusters of brownfields. It will train developers, community groups and citizens through workshops in brownfield development. And it will advise City Hall and fellow agencies on strategy for contaminated sites.
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