A Caribou A Washbur\ Northern Maine Development Commission ¦ ' 1 Kennebec \ Valley^1^ Council of Governments ~ How land Androscoggin Valley | Council of Governments/^ 1 X\ \~~\s\ \ Roxburyy" I —1 I—-1 A Rumford I ; A Peru, Pittsfield Oakland. ~ Ellsworth \ { wpf Hancock County iPlanning Commission *v01 / Waterville A Augusta' Norway A Gardiner Warren ± A Lewiston Auburn^ / ¦Vinalhaven „ /iJ^Bath Brunswick i t A FalmoutHf 1 Parsonsfield. \ L " \ M South Portland Sanford J Southern Maine Regional Planning n/ Commission Maine Communities with EPA Brownfields Program Funding Municipality Receiving Brownfields Funding Municipal Boundaries Regional Grantee Overlap of Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments and Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission Regions Potential Environmental Justice Areas Low Income Both (Low Income and Minority) Neither Unpopulated Lubec Summary of Funding (1994-2008) Program Funding Assessment Grants $5,909,017 Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants $6,268,355 Cleanup Grants $2,580,744 Job Training Grants $200,000 EPA Targeted Brownfield Assessments (TBA) $526,339 State & Tribal Brownfields Funding $6,856,611 Grand Total $22,341,066* 'Funding total current as of September 2008. Mapping Potential Environmental Justice Areas As part of its plan to address the issue of Environmental Justice, EPA New England has developed maps of areas with large low income and/or minority populations. To be considered a large population, a given Census block group must rank in the top 15% of the region for percentage minority and/or low income. Low income is defined as twice the Federal Poverty Level. N &EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency New England 50 Miles _l Produced by the EPA Region 1 GIS Center October 21, 2008 Data Sources: EPA Region 1, TeleAtlas® Map Tracker ID: 4624 ------- |