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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Jul 8, 2014, 07:06 PM Jul 2014

DEC Defends Bridge Loan To EPA

Nick Reisman

State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens defended the legality of the $511 million loan to help pay for the construction of a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge in a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The letter was first reported by Gannett.

The letter, addressed to EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck, comes as the state seeks to use money from a fund that has been in the past used to pay for water and sewer improvement projects.

Martens writes in the letter that the loan remains both legal and not an “unconventional or new” approach to take to the fund the project.

http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/07/dec-defends-bridge-loan-to-epa/

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