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Release Date: 05/02/96
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NTC ADM. BROWNER JOIN MAYOR AT PITTS. BROWNFIELDS REDEV. PRO.

FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1996

Media Advisory

EPA Administrator Browner to Join Mayor Tom Murphy at Pittsburgh Brownfields Redevelopment Project

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol M. Browner will join Mayor Tom Murphy at the Pittsburgh, Pa. site of a Clinton Administration Brownfields Redevelopment Project on Friday, May 3. Using a $200,000 EPA grant, Pittsburgh community leaders are working with EPA to find ways to clean up and redevelop this abandoned, contaminated site and return it to productive community use.
President Clinton in his State of the Union address announced a new tax incentive to encourage redevelopment at Brownfields sites across the country. Administrator Browner will discuss how the President's proposed tax incentive will help Pittsburgh.

Brownfields Redevelopment Projects are national models for revitalizing contaminated urban properties. Through this program, federal grants are used as seed money to spur investment. Developers are sought to restore abandoned sites to new uses, thereby increasing property values, stimulating tax revenues and revitalizing inner-city neighborhoods. Brownfields projects yield economic benefits and protect public health and the environment by encouraging development on existing sites, rather than in undeveloped areas.

WHO: EPA Administrator Carol M. Browner and Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy

WHAT: Visit Pittsburgh Brownfields Redevelopment Project

WHEN: Friday, May 3, 1996
12:00 p.m.

WHERE: Nine Mile Run Brownfields Site Browns Hill Road at Old Browns Hill Road Pittsburgh, Pa.

Directions: Take Parkway East toward Monroeville. Exit at Squirrel Hill/Homestead, and go toward Homestead. Go through 5 lights, past Burger King, and at intersection with Old Browns Hill Road, take right onto dirt road with green gate (an abandoned Arby's is on your left). Proceed into site until you reach an open space, take a right, and the press conference is 

directly in front of you.

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