Reps. Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree have released a list of several cities and towns in Maine that will receive more than $6 million to cleanup former industrial sites and prepare them for redevelopment.
Funding, which comes from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields program and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will go to the following cities and towns:
- Augusta, $350,000
- Lewiston, $200,000
- Museum L-A, Lewiston, $200,000
- Northern Maine Development Commission, $1,000,000
- Orono, $200,000
- Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point, $200,000
- Piscataquis County Economic Development Council, $200,000
- Sanford, $600,000
- Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission, $1,000,000
- Washington County Council of Governments, $400,000
- Windham, $200,000
- Bath, $200,000Â
- Greater Portland Council of Governments, $400,000
- Howland, $600,000
- Maine Department of Environmental Protection, $400,000
The funding comes in the form of assessment grants for conducting site assessment and planning for eventual cleanup at one or more brownfield sites, revolving loan fund grants for capitalizing a revolving loan fund and providing subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites and cleanup grants for conducting cleanup activities at brownfield sites owned by grant selectees.