VIDEO: Capito Discusses Coal Communities, Revitalization, Economic Development with WV's Mike Graney

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"Mr. Graney, you mentioned in your remarks about the assistance to coal communities program. Certainly we have suffered in West Virginia with the downturn in the coal industry. And that's one of the reasons that I've been particularly supportive, obviously, of this issue. Can you talk a little bit more about that program and how it's been helpful, and maybe what you see for the future of that assistance for coal communities?"

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"The other thing is the site ready portion of this, which I'm exceedingly interested in from West Virginia as we're trying to grow our economy and the developers have done a great job. But we also have areas that have either never been touched or have been touched maybe, you know, outside of a brownfield -- Brownfield program really works well in our state for that site development -- but for those sites, I could imagine maybe we could use EDA funds, maybe not to build a physical infrastructure, or that would be good, but to at least do some of the prep work that would go in pre-building. Mr. Graney, how do you feel about that?"

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