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Rell signs brownfields bills at Waterbury site
BY: PENELOPE OVERTON | REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN Source: http://www.rep-am.com WATERBURY — Everything old can be new again. That was the theme of Gov. M. Jodi Rell's visit to the vacant, contaminated factories of the Cherry Street Industrial Park Thursday. The city has spent $1.1 million in state and federal grants to clean and redevelop the property.  "This is a symbol of what we can do if we work together," Rell said. Although the buildings themselves are falling down, the real dangers of the property were underground — oils, metals and volatile organic compounds left behind in the soil, a dangerous legacy of the site's industrial past.  Rell chose this distressed corner to sign two environmental bills into law. The brownfield law allows cities to obtain state permission to waive back taxes and abate future taxes for developers who clean up and redevelop any contaminated industrial properties, or brownfields.  It also allows government officials or their proxies, such as an employee of the Waterbury Development Corp., access to brownfields that are behind on their taxes to assess environmental and public health conditions.
7/1/2010
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