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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 19:03:05 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Former Verso mill, Bucksport, Maine
 
EPA will help pay for cleanup of former Verso mill

Maine Biz
January 12, 2017

The federal Environmental Protection Agency awarded $200,000 to the Eastern Maine Development Corp. to support the redevelopment of the former Verso Paper Corp. mill property in Bucksport.

The funding, announced Wednesday by U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, is being made through EPA’s brownfield program that aims to help communities clean up old industrial sites for economic development initiatives.

...

The U.S. senators said Eastern Maine Development Corp. will work with the community and other stakeholders to develop an area-wide plan for the 117-acre site of the former mill, which is located along the Penobscot River. The property also contains vacant buildings that once housed a tannery and a steel mill.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mainebiz.biz/article/20170112/NEWS0101/170119978

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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