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Committee considers Brownfields changes to prioritize housing, commission study and allow temporary management of ‘development soils’
Summary
Legislative Council presented draft language to direct ANR to prioritize remediation for housing and to study Brownfields program efficiency; committee also discussed a proposed temporary 'insignificant waste event' pathway for managing lightly contaminated 'development soils' under conditions, capped duration and land‑record notice.
The House Committee on General & Housing received a presentation from Michael O'Brady of Legislative Council on Feb. 20 proposing several amendments to the state’s Brownfields cleanup authority intended to speed remediation where housing is planned and to study program efficiency.
O'Brady said sections 17 and 18 of the draft require the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR), when reviewing a Brownfields site, to prioritize review and remediation for sites that "contain housing or where single‑family or multifamily housing is proposed," and to conduct a stakeholder survey and efficiency study with a report due Nov. 1. The stated goal is to respond to developer testimony that lengthy corrective action planning and review timelines have delayed housing projects.
The committee’s discussion then moved to a separate but related regulatory problem: how to manage so‑called development soils — urban…
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