^    Brownfields  2014 Cleanup Grant Fact Sheet
               Biddeford, 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.
                     Cleanup Grant

                     $200,000 for hazardous substances

                     EPA has selected the City of Biddeford for a
                     brownfields cleanup grant. Hazardous substances
                     grant funds will be used to clean up the former
                     MERC facility located at 3-11 Lincoln Street. The
                     approximately 8.4-acre site was originally
                     developed with a variety of buildings as part of the
                     city's downtown mill district. The site was later
                     redeveloped in the early 1980s and operated as a
                     waste-to-energy facility, which recently was
                     demolished. The site is contaminated with heavy
                     metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, PCBs,
                     and dioxins. Grant funds also will be used to
                     support public meetings and 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
                                                      617-918-1278
                                                      EPA Region 1 Brownfields Web site
                                                      (http://www.epa.gov/regionl/bro wnfields)

                                                      Grant Recipient: City of Biddeford,ME
                                                      207-571-0032

                                                      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-14-040
      May 2014

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