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OREGON In April 2004, Oregon established the Industrial Brownfields Redevelopment Strategy, recognizing that the cleanup and reuse of industrial brownfields has a number of benefits for the state and local communities. This includes efficient use of public infrastructure investment, bringing underutilized or vacant properties back to taxable use, and reduced risks to public health, as well as conservation of dwindling resource lands.
Oregon’s Industrial Brownfield Redevelopment Strategy enhances market acceptance and reuse of existing industrial lands for industrial uses and employment. Land owners, local partners and state agencies seek to identify, certify and market properties for new industrial or traded sector uses. Incomplete knowledge about previously used industrial lands with concerns over actual or perceived contamination (brownfields) can cause these sites to be overlooked in favor of undeveloped land outside of urban growth boundaries.
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