| Richard Hofrichter - Environmental health - 2000 - 366 pages
...contaminated sites, known as brownfields.2 The EPA defines brownfields as "abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion...by real or perceived environmental contamination." Brownfields range from abandoned incinerators to closed gasoline stations to former electroplating... | |
| Elizabeth Glass Geltman - Business & Economics - 2000 - 408 pages
...productive use."i EPA defines brownfields as: Abandoned. idled. or under-used industrial and commeicial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated...by real or perceived environmental contamination. ln May l997. EPA announced its renewed Brownfields National Partnership Action Agenda. This program.... | |
| Donna E. Shalala - Medical - 2000 - 612 pages
...tanks. The term "brownfields" denotes abandoned, idle, or underused industrial or commercial sites where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. 8-13. Reduce pesticide exposures that result in visits to a health care facility. Target: 13,500 visits... | |
| James R. Bowers, Wilbur C. Rich - Political Science - 2000 - 268 pages
...(USEPA) (1996: 1) defines brownfields as "abandoned, idled or under-used industrial and commercial sites where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination that can add cost, time or uncertainty to redevelopment projects." This very definition of brownfields... | |
| Electronic government information - 2000 - 370 pages
...unloading. Brownfield sites: Abandoned, idled, or underused industrial and commercial facilities/sites where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. They can be in urban, suburban, or rural areas. The Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields initiative... | |
| Ken K. S. Ho, K. S. Li - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 384 pages
...given by the US Development of Protection Agency, saying that this is an abandoned, idle, or underused industrial and commercial facilities where expansion...by real or perceived environmental contamination. The question is. how can somebody quantify the perceived contamination and be objective? In my opinion,... | |
| Thomas J. McCool, Stanley J. Czerwinski - 2001 - 68 pages
...questions of environmental and labor impact. "Brownfield sites are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion...by real or perceived environmental contamination. "According to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, these programs have been consolidated into... | |
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