) Brownfields 2010 Cleanup Grant Fact Sheet
~ Pine Crest Development Corporation, Dover-Foxcroft, ME
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states.
communities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfield 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. In 2002,
the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
Revitalization Act was passed to help states and
communities around the country cleanup and revitalize
brownfields sites. Under this 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.
Additionally, funding support is provided to state and
tribal response programs through a separate mechanism.
Community Description
The Pine Crest Development Corporation was selected to
receive two brownfields cleanup grants. The Development
Corporation is located in the Town of Dover-Foxcroft
(population 4,211) in central Maine. The town was the
center of Maine"s textile and wood products industries
from the 1800s until the early 1900s. This once rich
industrial heritage has left behind a collection of
abandoned, mothballed, and condemned properties. At
least 16 brownfields in town range from one acre to 10
acres in size and occupy approximately 80 acres. The
closing of the Moosehead Manufacturing Mill in June
2007 dealt a blow to the local economy. The
unemployment rate is 11.3 percent. The median
household income of town residents is lower than the
state and national averages, and 15.8 percent of residents
live in poverty. When the target sites are cleaned up, the
Development Corporation and the town plan to redevelop
them for residential, commercial, and light industrial or
manufacturing uses. Cleanup and redevelopment are
expected to create jobs, increase tax revenues and
property values, and encourage additional investment in
nearby properties.
Cleanup Grants
$400,000 for hazardous substances
EPA has selected the Pine Crest Development
Corporation for two brownfields cleanup grants.
Hazardous substances grant funds will be used to
clean up the Main Mill Parcel and the
Outbuildings Parcel of the former Moosehead
Manufacturing Mill site at 5 East Main Street,
Dover-Foxcroft. Both parcels are part of the
two-acre former furniture manufacturing site, and
are contaminated with metals and volatile organic
compounds. Cleanup will include mitigating
runoff of contaminated stormwater to the nearby
Piscataquis River. Grant funds also will be used to
conduct community involvement activities.
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
(http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA Region 1 Brownfields Team
(617)918-1424
EPA Region 1 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/regionl/bro wnfields)
Grant Recipient: Pine Crest Development
Corporation,ME
(800)539-0332
The information presented in this fact sheet comes
from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
accuracy of this information. The cooperative
agreement for the grant has not yet been
negotiated. Therefore, activities described in this
fact sheet are subject to change.
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-10-022
April 2010
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