The City of The Dalles is planning to hold a public meeting on September 12 to highlight the Brownfield program.  The program helps defray the cost of assessing property conditions for buried and forgotten fuel tanks, asbestos, other regulated building materials and other potentially hazardous substances.  Administered jointly by the City of The Dalles, Wasco County, Port of The Dalles and Mid-Columbia Economic Development District, The Dalles Economic Development Officer Dan Spatz says the program is an important tool to help properties be redeveloped.  Loans are available to private parties for site clean-up.  The program is made possible through funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and BusinessOregon.  The meeting will be on September 12 at 4 p.m. in the Council chambers in The Dalles City Hall, followed by a walking tour of downtown properties that have taken advantage of the Brownfield program.