[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17774]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND NEW JOBS ARE CREATED IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, this morning, New York Governor Andrew 
Cuomo is in my home neighborhood of South Buffalo to announce a $225 
million redevelopment of a former steel-making plant that will bring 
850 new jobs to Buffalo.
  This project announcement will transform a 200-acre former Republic 
Steel site into a new clean energy and research campus that will 
breathe new life into a formerly contaminated industrial area that is 
situated along the Buffalo River and that has been economically dead 
for the past 30 years.
  This announcement, along with $75 million in Federal and private 
investments to clean up the Buffalo River and shoreline, is creating a 
dynamic new economy in Buffalo, an economy marked by new waterfront 
development and clean-energy manufacturing.
  Energy independence and hundreds of new jobs in the new economy are 
remaking Buffalo, New York; and this project should serve as a national 
model to grow the economy and for nation-building right here at home.

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