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House subcommittee hearing emphasizes Brownfields program’s role as redevelopment seed; reauthorization and funding debated
Summary
A House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee hearing examined EPA’s Brownfields grants, the program’s track record in readying sites for reuse and leveraging private investment, and lawmakers’ questions about reauthorization and proposed federal funding cuts.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment held a hearing to examine U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Brownfields program funding, its outcomes on redevelopment, and options for reauthorization and program improvement. Witnesses from county, state and private-sector perspectives testified about local projects, program metrics and the effects of federal budget uncertainty.
Why it matters: EPA estimates more than 450,000 brownfield sites nationwide and says the Brownfields program has prepared more than 10,800 properties for productive reuse, leveraged over $40.4 billion in cleanup and redevelopment funding and helped create or leverage more than 270,000 jobs. Subcommittee members framed reauthorization and annual appropriations as the mechanism that determines how many future projects can move from idle or…
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