WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King today announced that a combined total of $3,800,000 in federal funding has been awarded for the assessment and cleanup of Brownfield sites in Maine. The federal grants awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will assist local communities as they work to redevelop these contaminated sites in order to promote environmental integrity and future economic investment.

"We are very encouraged that the EPA has once again selected numerous sites in Maine to receive federal funding through the Brownfields Program," Senators Collins and King said in a joint statement. "These grants represent a continued and welcomed investment in the environmental and economic revitalization of Maine communities."           

A brownfield site is a property that contains a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant, which hinders the potential to reuse or redevelop the site. The EPA's Brownfields Program assists states and local communities as they assess, safely clean up, and reuse brownfield sites for economic development projects.

The funding is being allocated as follows:

• City of Bangor, $400,000 (community-wide assessment grant)
• City of Bath, $400,000 (community-wide assessment grant)
• City of Belfast, $200,000 (2 cleanup grants)
• City of Biddeford, $200,000 (cleanup grant)
• Community Library, Lyman, $200,000 (cleanup grant)
• Congress Street Hill Property, LLC, Belfast, $200,000 (cleanup grant)
• Hancock County Planning Commission, $400,000 (community-wide assessment grant)
• Town of Kittery, $200,000 (cleanup grant)
• Northern Maine Development Commission, $200,000 (community-wide hazardous substances assessment grant)
• Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission, $1,000,000 (community-wide hazardous substances Revolving Loan Fund grant)

• Washington County Council of Governments, $400,000 (community-wide assessment grant)

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