Category: Brownfields
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The Polanco Act Expansion: How SB 1898 Completed the Brownfield Cleanup Framework Eight Years Later
In 1990, Polanco wrote the Polanco Act that became the foundation of California brownfield cleanup. In 1998, he wrote the law that completed the framework. The law was SB 1898.
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The Polanco Act: How AB 3193 Let California Cities Reclaim Contaminated Land
In the closing days of the 1990 California legislative session, a thirty-nine-year-old first-term Assembly member got a law signed that would change the shape of California cities for the next three decades. This is the record of the Polanco Act.