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                          Brownfields
                          Supplemental Assistance
                          City  of Lewiston,  ME
BACKGROUND

EPA awarded the City of Lewiston supplemental assistance
for its Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot.
With the decline of the New England textile industry, the
City of Lewiston (population 39,800) was left with a
stagnant downtown center and a  polluted river.  The
Androscoggin River has been cleaned up, and Lewiston's
downtown  and  waterfront is being energized by
redevelopment efforts underway at the once abandoned
1.2 million square-foot Bates Mill Complex, which has
been the focus of the city's brownfields cleanup and
redevelopment efforts. The city plans to build on the
momentum of the Bates Mill Complex redevelopment by
assessing, cleaning up, and redeveloping the nearby W.S.
Libbey Mill site and two smaller properties along the city' s
western gateway.

A conference and performing arts center is planned for
the two-acre W.S. Libbey Mill site, which consists of three
interconnected buildings, a pump house, and a loading
dock for the former textile mill. There also is significant
interest in economic redevelopment of small properties at
51 Middle Street and 46 Chapel Street, which occupy a
potentially contaminated  landfill behind the L.L. Bean
telemarketing center. These Gateway Initiative projects,
most of which are located within the city's recently
designated federal Enterprise Community, will help further
Lewiston's revitalization.

OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES

Lewiston's objective is to accelerate its transformation by
undertaking several projects that will attract more people
into the city's revitalized downtown and waterfront area.
Lewiston will use the supplemental assistance to complete
Phase II environmental site assessments that will provide
the final descriptions of environmental conditions at the
W.S. Libbey Mill, 51 Middle Street, and46 Chapel Street
sites.
   PILOT SNAPSHOT
    City of Lewiston, Maine
Date of Announcement:
May 2002

Amount: $150,000

Profile: The Pilot plans to further
Lewiston's revitalization by
conducting assessments and
redevelopment planning for the
two-acre W.S. Libbey Mill site
and two smaller properties along
the city's western gateway.
   Contacts:

   Lewiston Development
   Department
   (207)784-2951
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA Region 1
(617)918-1209
        Visit the E PA Region 1 Brownfields web site at:
        http://www.epa.gov/region01/brownfields/

      Forfurther information, including specific Pilot contacts,
    additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
    publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
             www.epa.gov/brownfields
Activities planned as part of the Pilot include:

• Conducting a Phase II environmental site assessment at
  the W.S. Libbey Mill site;

• Conducting Phase II environmental site assessments,
  including hydrogeological, geochemical, and subsurface
  geological investigations to determine the source and
  extent of contamination at the 51 Middle Street and 46
  Chapel Street sites; and

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• Conducting outreach and community  involvement
  activities.

Thecooperativeagreementforthis Pilot hasnotyetbeen negotiated; therefore,
activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
                                                                  Solid Waste             EPA 500-F-02-075
                                                                  and Emergency          May 2002
                                                                  Response (5105)        www.epa.gov/brownfields/

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