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- ~. 1 LE-6. Brownfields - - 2 Issue": Brownfields are lands that are not suitable for development due to the presence of - chemical or other contaminants, Brownfields are a major cause of blight within communities !!!! 3 - - 4 across the state through loss of local tax base, jobs, housing quality, public safety and - - - 5 community confidence. Revitalizing this land is costly and requires the cooperation of city, - - 6 county, school, regional, state and federal governments and the assistance of local economic - - - 7 development organizations and citizens. As we move into an era where the mass creation of - - - 8 jobs is a necessity and where increased tax base is a requirement for local governments to - - - 9 adequately face growing financial pressures, efforts to revitalize brownfields must not only - 10 continue but be accelerated in the upcoming years. . ii 11 Response: A comprehensive set of economic development programs must be made - -- - _12 available to cities and other development agencies, The legislature should: ~ 13 - . increase funding for the Department of Trade and Economic Development's . . 14 contaminated site clean-up fund; 15 . act to strengthen enforcement and collection of revenues for the state contamination . 16 tax; I 17 . continue support for and funding of local and regional programs to assist in the - 18 efforts to remediate brownfields; - I 19 . establish a fully-funded program to allow cities and other development authorities to I 20 gain control of and reclaim and revitalize brownfields; I 21 . protect existing tax increment financing provisions that provide for the remediation of - 22 brown fields and modify restrictions to allow the pooling of district revenues to assist --- '-23 in the financing of remediation of brownfields; I 1997 City Policies 15 :'1