""To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to assist local governments and others to address large-scale property vacancy and abandonment, and for other purposes.
SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Urban and Suburban Communities Regeneration Act of 2009”.
(6) establishment of recovered building materials reuse and recycling infrastructure, facilities, incentives, and technical support;
(7) establishment of local government purchasing requirements for deconstruction to make use of existing building materials stock in new and rehabilitation construction""
Brad Guy, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP
Cell: 814-571-8659
One thing the Obama "green" plan is likely to definitely have are very large new subsidies for conversion of biomass into energy. My guess is that any benefit recycled materials get through higher demand for materials in construction projects will be far outweighed by a continued erosion of the relative competitiveness of recycling versus waste-to-energy technologies due to poorly thought out public policies.
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When Obama is sworn in, there is going to be a big stimulus package