3.4: Environmental Assets
Build and Enhance Environmental Assets Other Information:
Cleaning up defunct industrial sites, promoting environmentally sensitive industries, and providing responsible stewardship
and use of Appalachia's natural assets can play a vital part in putting the Region on an equal economic footing with the rest
of the nation. This includes the reclamation of former industrial sites and mine-impacted lands for viable use. Selected Strategies:
Raise awareness of and leverage support for the reclamation and reuse of brownfields properties in industrial areas and mine-impacted
communities. Encourage eco-industrial development that can responsibly take advantage of the Region's natural-resource assets.
Support regional planning and economic development policies that promote good stewardship of the Region's natural resources.
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