HOUSE LIMITS EXPANSION OF BROWNFIELDS GRANT ELIGIBILITY TO ONE YEAR

House appropriators have rejected efforts by the Senate to permanently expand the definition of who is eligible to receive brownfields grant money by limiting the revision to only one year in the omnibus spending measure awaiting Senate passage, according to EPA, congressional and local government officials. The delay in the bill's passage is problematic for EPA because the agency will be required to comply with the changes when the bill passes, but the deadline for the grant applications expired on...