Sites on the Superfund National Priorities List would be ineligible for the incentive. The brownfield tax incentive would allow an estimated 2 billion dollars in write-offs over seven years, in the process stimulating 10 billion dollars in private cleanup investment and returning about 30,000 brown-fields to use, the administration says. Congress has also been making some moves on the brownfield issue. In the Senate, Spencer Abraham (R-Mich.) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) have introduced S 1542, which proposes to allow environmental cleanup costs to be expensed the year in which they're incurred for projects in empowerment zones and enterprise communities.
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