The EPA believes that environmental cleanup should be a building block, not a stumbling block, to economic development. Cleaning up contaminated sites must go hand-in-hand with bringing economic vitality to communities. To promote this belief, the EPA has fostered a number of incentive programs to revitalize cleanup sites. These include the Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots, empowerment zones, environmental insurance, land reclamation banks, real estate investment trusts and tax abatements. These programs are designed to empower states, communities, tribes, and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely cleanup, and promote the sustainable reuse of remediated sites.
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