[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Bangor (ME) gets Brownfield grant to clean building at former Dow Air Force Base

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

[I don’t know why a former military site was eligible for a Brownfield grant, unless the pollution was caused by subsequent uses. - LS]

Bangor gets federal grant to clean up contaminated old Air Force building


by Kathleen O’Brien
Bangor Daily News
July 5, 2023

Bangor received a nearly $900,000 federal grant last month to demolish an abandoned, contaminated former military building at the Bangor International Airport and repurpose the land. 

The $897,850 Brownfields Assessment Grant comes from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and doesn’t require a match from the city. The money will be used to rehabilitate the “Alert Building” at the airport leftover from its days as the Dow Air Force Base. 

The grant cleared the City Council’s Business and Economic Development Committee on June 21, then received full council approval on June 26. The grant will be managed by city and airport staff.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/07/05/news/bangor/bangor-brownfields-airport-cleanup-grant-joam40zk0w/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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