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 Brownfields  2005

 Grant  Fact Sheet

          Downtown

        Revitalization

         Corporation,

         Norway, ME


EPA Brownfields Program

EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders in economic development
to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up,
and sustainably reuse brownfields. Abrownfield site is
real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse
of which may be complicated by the presence or
potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant,
or contaminant. On January 11, 2002, President George
W. Bush signed into law the Small Business Liability
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under the
Brownfields Law, EPA provides financial assistance to
eligible applicants through four competitive grant
programs: assessment grants, revolving loan fund
grants, cleanup grants, and job training grants. Addi-
tionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal
response programs through a separate mechanism.

Community Description

The Downtown Revitalization Corporation was se-
lected to receive a brownfields cleanup grant. The
target site is in Norway, one of Maine's six Main Street
Communities, which is a distressed rural community
transitioning its economy from natural resource-based
commodity manufacturing to a more diversified mix of
niche manufacturing, tourism, and service. A small
community (population 4,611), Norway has a median
household income that is approximately 68 percent of
the national average. Unemployment is 50 percent
  Cleanup Grant
120051
  $68,000 for hazardous substances

  EPA has selected the Downtown Revitalization
  Corporation for a brownfields cleanup grant. The
  grant will be used to remove asbestos from the
  Cummings Mill complex, a former wood dowel
  mill operated on the site in Norway for 150 years.
  Contacts
  For further information, including specific grant
  contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
  news and events, and publications and links, visit
  the EPA Brownfields web site at: www.epa.gov/
  brownfields.

  EPA Region 1 Brownfields Team
  617-918-1221
  http://www.epa.gov/region01/brownfields/

  Grant Recipient: Downtown Revitalization
  Corporation, ME
  207-743-8830, ext. 150

  The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
  yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
  in this fact sheet are subject to change.
higher than the statewide average, and nearly 13
percent of the community lives in poverty. Cleanup of a
former mill complex will facilitate its redevelopment
into a mixed-use downtown housing, office, retail, and
recreation center that will create jobs, improve the tax
base, and support the revitalization of historic down-
town Norway. Because Norway has very little com-
mercially useful land, reuse of the existing 4.5-acre site
in the heart of downtown is critical to the community's
future.
                                               Solid Waste and
                                               Emergency Response
                                               (5105T)
                       EPA 560-F-05-022
                       May 2005
                       www.epa.gov/brownfields

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