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By Jennifer L. Hernandez and Alfred Fraijo Jr.
In a tortured journey commenced by a broad coalition
of community-based housing and civil rights advocacy groups under the
leadership of Senator Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), the California
Legislature decisively rejected efforts to conform California’s joint
and several environmental liability laws to the Federal Small Business
Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002.
Instead, it imposed full cleanup obligations on
prospective purchasers who qualified for federal liability relief as bona
fide prospective purchasers, innocent purchasers or contiguous land owners.
There are several differences between the complex new California brownfield
legislation and the federal liability reforms enacted in 2002.
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