[CPEO-BIF] "Funds for Little Rock-area [Arkansas] cleanups sitting idle"

[Lenny Siegel]

Funds for Little Rock-area cleanups sitting idle

By Emily Walkenhorst
Northwest Arkansas Democratic Gazette
September 10, 2017 

Anyone interested in a cleanup in Pulaski County?

The county has $815,000 in funds sitting around from the federal environmental program that helped developers revitalize downtown Little Rock's Main Street.

Since receiving the money last year, no one has applied to use it, said Josh Fout, the county's brownfields administrator.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund distributes money to government agencies for the assessment or cleanup of properties that are complicated to develop because of the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, according to the EPA.

In the mid-2000s, more than $1 million in brownfields program money helped clean up several Main Street buildings, which allowed developers to build Main Street Lofts and K Lofts, major staples of the new Main Street.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2017/sep/10/funds-for-lr-area-cleanups-sitting-idle/?news-arkansas

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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