April 18, 2005—Douglas L Steidl, FAIA, 2005 president of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), has called upon Congress to enact legislation to expand incentives for brownfields revitalization this year because more rapid progress is both possible and necessary on a vital national need, says the AIA.
The American Institute of Architects is intensely concerned about making the nations communities healthy, safe, livable, and sustainable places, Steidl told a subcommittee of the House Government Reform Committee in Washington, D.C. We have long had an interest in finding imaginative and constructive uses for urban land that now lies fallow because of the residual contamination that is part of its industrial heritage.
In testimony before the Congressional panel, Steidl said the AIA supports using federal tax credits for remediation expenditures at brownfields sites to provide an added incentive to induce private parties to undertake the cleanup and rebuilding of these sites.
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