Source: United States Senator for Maine Angus King
Download an Excel spreadsheet of the 140 projects HERE and view a map of projects HERE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) today celebrated the final Congressional approval of 140 Maine projects that will be receiving $250,083,018 from his Congressionally-Directed Spending (CDS) requests included in the bipartisan Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Package. The funding will be used by a broad range of state, local, and nonprofit organizations to strengthen Maine communities.
“From food banks and hospitals to job training programs and infrastructure upgrades, Maine’s 2023 Congressionally-Directed Spending supports important projects across the state that will improve the lives of Maine people and invest in the future of our communities. These historic investments are going directly to the local organizations who need them the most and can effectively provide economic opportunities, personal enrichment, and other vital public services,” said Senator King. “Maine people have always looked out for each other, and the 140 nonprofits and local governments receiving these funds are no different – they have proven track records of success in our communities and will use this support to expand and improve their efforts. I’m grateful that Congress approved so many of my CDS requests, and deeply appreciate all of the Maine organizations who submitted projects for consideration. I look forward to seeing these investments support people across our state for years to come.”
CDS funding is included in annual federal appropriations legislation and provides a specific amount of discretionary funding to a state, locality, or nonprofit organization for projects with demonstrated civic and community value. Last year, Senator King secured over $137 million in Congressionally-Directed Spending for 93 Maine projects.
Senator King will begin accepting preliminary requests for FY24 Maine-based Congressionally-Directed Spending projects in upcoming months.
The 140 FY23 Maine investments secured by Senator King (sorted by county) are below. You can also download an Excel spreadsheet of the 140 projects HERE and view a map of projects HERE.
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ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY
Recipient Name: SeniorsPlus
Project: SeniorsPlus Facility for Older Adults
Funding Amount: $1,500,000
Project Purpose: To help build a new facility for SeniorPlus. Most of the facility will house the SeniorPlus “Meal on Wheels” kitchen serving three counties. The remainder of the facility will house a larger Education Center offering support groups, evidenced based classes that support healthy aging, and other topical areas of interest for older adults.
Recipient Name: City of Lewiston
Project: New Lewiston Fire Station
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: The purpose of this project is to build a new Lisbon Street fire substation that will provide the department and the community with a modern, state-of-the-art facility including increased garage space to better house fire apparatus, provide separation between living quarters and fire apparatus, and a designated gear and equipment decontamination and cleaning areas to ensure the health and safety of the firefighters. The existing fire substation has been identified for replacement due to being functionally obsolete and experiencing structural deficiencies.
Recipient Name: St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $945,000
Project Purpose: To support the renovation and improvement of the air handling system of St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center’s C2 Unit for admitted patients.
Recipient Name: Town of Poland
Project: Transfer Station Improvements
Funding Amount: $598,000
Project Purpose: To improve the capability and capacity, safety, and environmental protection at the Poland Transfer Station by expanding recycling and municipal solid waste handling capability, improving safety through pavement repair and replacement, protecting the environment by creating a non-porous laydown area for construction, wood debris and roll off containers, improving drainage, and enhancing office space to handle increased customer demand.
Recipient Name: Central Maine Community College
Project: Renewable Energy Project at Central Maine Community College
Funding Amount: $500,000
Project Purpose: Central Maine Community College (Auburn) is requesting CDS funds for the installation of solar panels on the roofs of pre-identified campus buildings to promote the college’s energy efficiency and renewable energy goals.
Recipient Name: Androscoggin Home Health and Hospice
Project: Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program
Funding Amount: $236,000
Project Purpose: Androscoggin Home Health and Hospice requests funds to support the Maine Center for Palliative Medicine, a service line within Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice, established a Nurse Practitioner Fellowship; a one-year program designed to nurture and educate certified nurse practitioners in hospice and palliative care in a variety of settings.
Recipient Name: Tri-County Mental Health Services
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $175,000
Project Purpose: To fund critical repairs and upgrades to community mental health clinics to ensure they are safe, efficient, welcoming, and trauma-informed facilities. Critical needs are repairs of aging facilities, including crucial roofing and heating systems.
AROOSTOOK COUNTY
Recipient Name: Maine Department of Transportation (Ashland-Eagle Lake)
Project: Ashland-Eagle Lake, Route 11 Rehabilitation
Funding Amount: $14,400,000
Project Purpose: This project will rehabilitate Route 11 from Ashland to Eagle Lake. Current roadway conditions are rated poor to very poor by MaineDOT and FHWA metric; this project will restore this section of Route 11 to a state of good repair.
Recipient Name: Maine Department of Transportation (Van Burren)
Project: Van Buren, US Route 1 Reconstruction
Funding Amount: $10,400,000
Project Purpose: This project will reconstruct 4.7 miles of US Route 1 in Van Buren. This segment of roadway does not currently meet modern standards.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Fort Kent)
Project: University of Maine at Fort Kent Facility Renovation
Funding Amount: $4,000,000
Project Purpose: UMFK is seeking $4 million to renovate its Fox Auditorium. The current facility is antiquated, but is widely utilized by both the campus and broader local community for essential education, cultural, and community programming.
Recipient Name: Town of Van Buren
Project: Fire Station and Training Center
Funding Amount: $2,177,000
Project Purpose: To help fund the construction of a new fire station located in Van Buren, ME.
Recipient Name: Northern Maine Community College
Project: Wind Turbine Technician Training Program
Funding Amount: $2,175,000
Project Purpose: To support the development of well-trained, highly-skilled wind turbine technicians by establishing Northern Maine Community College as the first internationally certified training provider in the wind power industry in the northeastern United States. CDS funds will support the expansion of the wind power training program at Northern Maine Community College in collaboration with Maine Maritime Academy to move into the second phase of a project to become the go-to resource for the training of current and future workforce for the wind power industry. CDS money will fund Phase II of the project (phase 1 funded in FY22) to enable NMCC and Maine Maritime to support employers in the wind power industry through the development of safety training standards that combine both land-based wind and offshore wind industries.
Recipient Name: Town of Grand Isle
Project: Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and Pump Station Upgrades and Sludge Drying Bed
Funding Amount: $1,296,000
Project Purpose: To update necessary and critical systems at the water and wastewater plants, and pump stations to improve efficiency and protect the health, safety and welfare of the residents of Grand Isle. The project will ensure safe treatment and delivery of potable water, treatment of wastewater and provide a method for wastewater sludge disposal while minimizing impact on low to moderate income users in the Town. It will also provide a long-term solution for sludge disposal which the Town does not have currently with regulations and recent legislative actions surrounding PFAS.
Recipient Name: Eagle Lake Water and Sewer District
Project: Eagle Lake Wastewater Treatment & Pumping Stations Upgrade
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: To upgrade the Eagle Lake Water and Sewer system that services the town of Eagle Lake and is 40+ years old. The life of the equipment is beyond its lifespan and failures are expected to occur more frequently.
Recipient Name: Loring Development Authority
Project: Sewer Replacement and Infiltration/Inflow Removal Project at the Loring Development Authority
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: The purpose of this project is to replace 28,000 feet of clay sewers and 90 brick manholes constructed in the late 1940’s to early 1950’s, with new PVC sewers and concrete manholes, resolving overflows of untreated wastewater and discharge permit violations into the Aroostook River watershed caused by infiltration and inflow at the wastewater treatment plant. The project will reduce the transmission of groundwater to the Limestone Water and Sewer District which will reduce permit violations, save pumping costs, and provide capacity within the LDA system for growth. The sewers to be replaced serve the Loring Commerce Center in Limestone.
Recipient Name: Aroostook Area Agency on Aging
Project: Enhance and expand services for older adults, including equipment
Funding Amount: $862,000
Project Purpose: To fund the Aroostook Access Points for Aging Project to create and strengthen an aging network in Aroostook County to assist older people in leading independent and meaningful lives in their own communities and homes. The project will achieve this by adding and/or enhancing access point infrastructures and technologies that will provide localized connections to services, consultation and meeting space, recreation, and enrichment for the County’s older population. The project will strive to develop access points in 20 northern Maine communities located in the northern, central and southern areas of Aroostook County; six of which have been designated as Age-Friendly Communities by AARP.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Presque Isle)
Project: Dental Training Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $750,000
Project Purpose: To expand the University of Maine at Augusta’s existing dental education and workforce training programs (currently located in Bangor and Lewiston) to Northern Maine by launching Dental Assisting and Expanded Functions Dental Assisting degree programs at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, including the creation of a new dental lab that would provide free and reduced community dental services.
Recipient Name: Town of Ashland
Project: Development of New Markets and Fabrication Road Map for Maine-Sourced Structural Round Timber
Funding Amount: $500,000
Project Purpose: To support the market development of Northern Maine-Sourced Structural Round Timber (SRT) to attract private investment to develop a SRT fabrication facility in Ashland. The project seeks to leverage extensive national r&d in SRT to develop east coast adoption and demand for SRT products produced in the Ashland area from the surrounding well-managed commercial and family forests. With East Coast mass timber markets growing, this project will help Ashland situate itself to take advantage of an estimated $130M Total Addressable Market for high gross margin SRT products, and in so doing, pave a path for other Maine forest communities to do the same.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Recipient Name: Preble Street
Project: Preble Street Food Security Hub
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: The funding would be used to support a Food Security Hub that would provide assistance to those facing hunger and homelessness. This Food Security Hub would act as an industrial kitchen, food processing center, educational site, office space, and conference center dedicated to collective advocacy work and efforts to address hunger.
Recipient Name: Maine Preservation
Project: Wayne & East Machias Historic Preservation
Funding Amount: $3,031,769
Project Purpose: To provide catalytic investment in two buildings listed on Maine Preservation’s annual Most Endangered Historic Places list – Wayne Masonic Hall in Wayne and First Congressional Church of East Machias. These critically imperiled structures, when stabilized and rehabilitated, are slated to become economic and cultural stimulators in their rural communities. The project would rehabilitate underused structures to once again serve as community hubs for economic stimulus, which can be especially consequential for rural communities. These projects also preserve the cultural fabric of two Maine communities, central to keeping a sense of local identity and bolstering heritage tourism.
Recipient Name: Portland Parks Conservancy
Project: Portland Harbor Common Open Space
Funding Amount: $2,145,000
Project Purpose: The project will transform a six-acre City-owned parking lot located on the harbor into waterfront open space reserved for use by the public. It will also set the stage for a second phase–the redevelopment of 11 acres of Portland’s Eastern Waterfront to public open space.
Recipient Name: Town of Windham
Project: North Windham Wastewater Treatment Facility
Funding Amount: $2,000,000
Project Purpose: To support an advanced wastewater treatment facility in North Windham using a Membrane Bio Reactor system for treatment of effluent. The project will provide critical wastewater infrastructure to mitigate pollution into an aquifer in Windham, and at the same time it will provide essential infrastructure needed to unlock new job creation and economic investment in the community and the region.
Recipient Name: Boots2Roots
Project: Transition to Work Program
Funding Amount: $1,500,000
Project Purpose: To increase capacity in the “Transition to Work” Program to assist transitioning military members, veterans and spouses to find meaningful work in Maine each year by increasing transition coaching (e.g. resume coaching, interview coaching, career coaching), expanding the network of Maine businesses seeking to hire military talent, and expanding marketing opportunities (digital, print, virtual, in-person, social-media) to target military communities around the U.S.
Recipient Name: Trustees of Saint Joseph’s College of Maine
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $1,165,000
Project Purpose: Saint Joseph’s College seeks funding to provide space and resources that will specifically support the academics and licensure training of our BSN and NP students, as well as the large, flexible spaces for home care training that offer in-person, real-time remote, or recorded trainings either led by aging organizations and home care agencies or led by the College’s faculty and staff.
Recipient Name: County of Cumberland
Project: Public Safety Communications Equipment Upgrade
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: Funding to improve emergency communication across 20 towns in Cumberland County and at the County’s Regional Communications Center, Emergency Management Agency and Sheriff’s Office.
Recipient Name: Mercy Hospital dba Northern Light Mercy Hospital
Project: Workforce Training and Supportive Services
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: This funding would be used to substantially increase access to English language acquisition services in greater Portland, with the goal of supporting participants in advancing in health care or related career pathways.
Recipient Name: Educate Maine
Project: Mobile Science Lab
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: To create a state-of-the-art mobile life sciences lab that can meet students where they live and learn, engaging them in the life sciences and offering hands-on learning in their own environments, with the goal of making a culture of “life sciences and engineering” accessible for all students. In collaboration with Northeastern’s Roux Institute, Learning Undefeated, and BIOME, Educate Maine seeks to bring the concept of a mobile life sciences and engineering laboratory to the State of Maine. Engaging more students in life sciences and engineering fields early on will help prepare more learners to enter these important high-demand fields down the road. This project is specifically designed to efficiently invest in the future workforce, maximizing student experience by sharing high dollar equipment across the state, bringing cutting edge technology to the students in the district without burdening the district with high capital equipment costs that need to be continuously maintained
Recipient Name: City of Westbrook
Project: Presumpscot River Corridor: Landslide Vulnerability Assessment (Windham to Portland)
Funding Amount: $996,000
Project Purpose: To identify the causes associated with a 2020 landslide that caused significant damage to an industrial zoned area of Westbrook and to ensure future loss of property and life are minimized given future planned land use.
Recipient Name: Oasis Health Network
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $833,000
Project Purpose: Oasis Free Clinics (Oasis) is requesting Congressionally Directed Spending funding to expand and renovate our free medical and dental clinic in Brunswick, Maine.
Recipient Name: Southern Maine Community College
Project: Electric Vehicle Automotive Certification Expansion Program
Funding Amount: $750,000
Project Purpose: SMCC is seeking funding to support increasing the number of trainees in the Electric Vehicle Repair Certification program annually, through the renovation of space currently located at SMCC’s South Portland Campus. Renovating this space will allow for an additional cohort of 12 individuals with each training.
Recipient Name: Amistad, Inc.
Project: Behavioral Health Services and Recovery Housing
Funding Amount: $535,000
Project Purpose: To provide permanent, peer-supported, recovery-focused for women who were previously experiencing homelessness or incarceration, and who face challenges related to substance use disorder, behavioral health, and histories of trauma that include the experience of human trafficking and domestic violence. An integral component of this project is the successful establishment of a new model of supportive housing that is effective in sustaining the housing, safety, and recovery of women who, historically, have been the most likely to meet fates of chronic homelessness and incarceration.
Recipient Name: 3i Housing of Maine
Project: Improvement of Independent living opportunities, including equipment
Funding Amount: $509,000
Project Purpose: To fund a pilot project enabling 3i HoME (together with the University of Pittsburgh and the University of New England) to design, implement and analyze the impact of user-friendly, person-centered assistive/”smart home” technology and telehealth applications for low-income people with complex needs and disabilities. The pilot will be conducted at a new affordable housing community of approximately 45 units 3i HoME is developing in Scarborough (Greater Portland) Maine with a national, non-profit affordable housing organization, the Preservation of Affordable Housing.
Recipient Name: Maine Irish Heritage Center
Project: Building Restoration of Maine Irish Heritage Center
Funding Amount: $3,000,000
Project Purpose: Funding would go towards a project to fully restore the building envelope to prevent further deterioration of the exterior structure, seal and weatherize the building, and prevent further interior damage.
Recipient Name: Day One
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $443,000
Project Purpose: To renovate a facility to serve adolescent girls who are struggling with acute substance use disorder to provide trauma-informed treatment, life skills development, family therapy, education, and related skills to support recovery.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System – Augusta Aviation Maintenance Technician School?(Brunswick)
Project: Equipment and Technology Improvements for Aviation Maintenance Technician Program
Funding Amount: $400,000
Project Purpose: To launch a higher education degree program in aviation maintenance where students will learn how to repair and maintain certified aircraft, expanding the pipeline of aviation professionals to fill in-demand jobs.
Recipient Name: Quality Housing Coalition
Project: Growing Project HOME–Guarantor Housing Equity Fund and Tenant Support
Funding Amount: $314,000
Project Purpose: The Growing Project HOME project we are requesting funding for will be specifically focused on recruiting more landlords to partner with Project HOME through the guarantor fund and the flexible funding for tenants.
Recipient Name: Peregrine Corporation (STRIVE)
Project: Expansion of independent living opportunities
Funding Amount: $300,000
Project Purpose: STRIVE seeks funding to 1) fill an unmet need in rural Maine that urgently needs services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities 2) provide immediate services for Mainers with IDD who are on long waiting lists for services 3) assist Mainers with IDD who may fall through the cracks due to restrictive eligibility issues, including diagnosis, IQ, age, or other criteria 4) deliver independent living skill training to Mainers currently not receiving services due to a staffing crisis in the field of Intellectual Disabilities 5) assist aging parents/caregivers who struggle to provide services for people with IDD by creating opportunities and resources for their adult children 6) provide training in multiple disciplines, including pre-employment skills, to assist people with IDD in gaining employment and to help Maine employers with difficult to fill entry-level positions.
Recipient Name: MaineHealth
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements (transportation)
Funding Amount: $250,000
Project Purpose: MaineHealth seeks funding to purchase an electric shuttle van, hiring of a driver and Transportation Coordinator to mitigate existing transportation issues by transporting individuals housed at hotel shelters to and from medical appointments. MaineHealth also seeks funding as part of this project to bus passes for departments to provide patients who live on or near bus routes of the Greater Portland Metro.
Recipient Name: Side x Side Inc.
Project: Professional Development on Arts Integration for Maine Educators
Funding Amount: $242,000
Project Purpose: Side x Side (SxS) requests Congressionally Directed Spending for Project M.A.I.N.E. to create and implement a Professional Development (PD) series on Arts Integration for Maine educators, which includes inservice and preservice teachers, teaching artists and administrators. It will culminate with the publishing of a digital resource Guide.
Recipient Name: Town of Gorham
Project: Town of Gorham Feasibility Study for Sewer and Water Distribution System
Funding Amount: $240,000
Project Purpose: Funds will support a feasibility study of connecting public sewer and water to an adjacent commercial zone, which extends into two neighboring municipalities (Scarborough & Westbrook).
Recipient Name: Port Resources, ME
Project: Healthcare Training Program (including curriculum)
Funding Amount: $30,000
Project Purpose: Port Resources seeks funding to break down barriers to employment in direct support faced by New Mainers by providing work readiness training to increase and develop a well-trained and diverse workforce to fill the health care role of direct support professional.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System – Maine Law School Legal Aid Clinic?(Portland)
Project: IT Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $17,000
Project Purpose: To expand UMaine Law’s public service legal aid clinic to prepare students for professional practice, including by acquiring essential technology items for the clinic.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
Recipient Name: High Peaks Alliance
Project: Sandy River Bridge
Funding Amount: $2,041,000
Project Purpose: This project would fund the construction of a multiple-use bridge over the Sandy River from downtown Farmington connecting to the regional Whistle-Stop Trail.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Recipient Name: University of Maine System
Project: University of Maine System – Seawater Supply Lines
Funding Amount: $3,500,000
Project Purpose: To install seawater intake lines and larger pumps to support the growth of the National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center and University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research and full utilization of aquaculture systems at both facilities to
advance research, workforce development, and economic development.
Recipient Name: City of Ellsworth
Project: High Street Pump Station
Funding Amount: $1,774,075
Project Purpose: The primary purpose of this project is to reduce infiltration and inflow in the sanitary sewer collection system which will ultimately aid to eliminate historic sanitary sewer overflows at the Water Street Pump Station. This project includes replacing the existing sewage pumps; piping, valves, flow meter, electrical gear, pump station instrumentation and controls; structural improvements to the existing wet well; a new generator; and upgrades to the electrical service. The funding would be used for upgrades to the High Street Pump Station to mitigate potential adverse impacts of heavy rainfall events caused by climate change and to ensure that the sanitary sewer system can support vital economic growth for the City of Ellsworth and Downeast region.
Recipient Name: Town of Bar Harbor
Project: Bar Harbor Up Island Water Tank Storage
Funding Amount: $1,439,000
Project Purpose: To replace the town of Bar Harbor’s sole water tank, ‘The Up Island Water Storage Tank’ with a new and larger water tank with the capacity to hold both a public water supply and a fire suppression supply volume.
Recipient Name: Stonington Water Company
Project: Stonington Water Storage Tank Construction
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: To support the construction of additional water storage facilities within the water distribution system to supplement the existing 500,000 gallon steel standpipe located south of Sunset Avenue. The new tank would be sited in the same location but located upland to help alleviate water supply issues during the summer months.
Recipient Name: Town of Blue Hill
Project: Wastewater Treatment Facility
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: To upgrade the town of Blue Hill’s wastewater treatment facility. This upgrade will involve renovations of both wastewater pump stations and the treatment facility. Equipment will be replaced and repaired, and at the treatment plant, a high tide effluent pumping station will be installed.
Recipient Name: Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $600,000
Project Purpose: MDI Biological Laboratory has launched a new initiative, MDI Bioscience, that leverages our internationally recognized expertise in molecular biology and regenerative medicine to discover new pharmaceuticals with greater efficiency and efficacy than is currently possible with existing approaches.
Recipient Name: Acadia Disposal District
Project: Household Hazardous Waste and Universal Waste Collection Facility
Funding Amount: $350,000
Project Purpose: To establish a year round collection site for hazardous household and universal waste to keep hazardous materials out of the local wastestream.
Recipient Name: Town of Dedham
Project: Dedham/Lucerne Fire Station Addition
Funding Amount: $250,000
Project Purpose: The Dedham/Lucerne Fire Department is seeking to raise needed funds for an expansion of the Dedham Fire Station and add “live-in” quarters for Fire Science Students from Eastern Maine Community College, as well as our full-time staff.
KENNEBEC COUNTY
Recipient Name: University of Maine System
Project: Nursing Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $4,500,000
Project Purpose: CDS funding would invest in building out and upgrading nursing simulation at all University of Maine System nursing schools and related program sites to establish a standardized simulation integration program aligned with best practices and expand access to in-demand high-quality affordable public nursing education and workforce training.
Recipient Name: State of Maine, Governor’s Energy Office
Project: Maine Clean Energy Partnership Workforce Initiative
Funding Amount: $2,750,000
Project Purpose: The Maine Governor’s Energy Office has established a Clean Energy Partnership that convenes public and private sector entities to advise on workforce and innovation strategy in the weatherization and building performance, electrician, and HVAC industries. The funding would be used to support the Maine Clean Energy Partnership Workforce Initiative, which develops programming for workforce and training opportunities and provides direct training services to workers and potential workers in the clean energy sector.
Recipient Name: MaineGeneral Medical Center
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $2,000,000
Project Purpose: MaineGeneral Medical Center, which serves central Maine, is seeking funding to acquire a new da Vinci Xi® robotic-assisted surgical system under the Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) Program Health Facilities Construction and Equipment account.
Recipient Name: Winthrop Utilities District
Project: Winthrop Pump Stations Upgrade
Funding Amount: $1,896,000
Project Purpose: To upgrade the Sewer Pumping Stations to current electrical standards, replace the pumps, piping, make necessary structural repairs to the steel pump chamber as well as recoat steel pump chambers.
Recipient Name: Colonial Theater, Inc.
Project: Augusta Colonial Theater Restoration
Funding Amount: $1,500,000
Project Purpose: To restore and preserve the historic Augusta Colonial Theater.
Recipient Name: Alfond Youth & Community Center
Project: The New Youth Center of Augusta
Funding Amount: $1,200,000
Project Purpose: This funding investment will build a new youth center in Augusta, Maine to help expand our programming to increase our capacity to serve children and families encouraging them to enroll and use free academic, health and wellness and educational community programming. This request will serve approximately 500 additional individuals.
Recipient Name: Thomas College
Project: Project Sentinel
Funding Amount: $974,000
Project Purpose: Thomas College proposes Project Sentinel to build a pipeline for qualified students into our existing undergraduate and graduate degree programs in cybersecurity, computer science, and technology-related fields to quickly expand enrollment and employment in this high demand field. Additionally, Project Sentinel will develop and deploy web-based resources and virtual consulting to enhance digital security measures and practices for individuals and businesses.
Recipient Name: Kennebec Valley YMCA
Project: Kennebec Valley YMCA Expanded Child Care Services for Young Children
Funding Amount: $646,000
Project Purpose: The Kennebec Valley YMCA requests funds to expand the Y’s childcare program capacity. The Y will build a 2,000-square-foot addition to the existing facility at 31 Union Street in Augusta. The expansion will allow the program to add 35 new childcare slots to its Learning Center program for young children ages six weeks to five years–a 47 percent increase in capacity (the current capacity is 66). The new addition will be single-story construction with three classrooms equipped with bathrooms and storage closets. The Y is also requesting support to purchase the materials and supplies needed to outfit the new classrooms to make them fully operational within a one-year timeframe.
Recipient Name: Kennebec Valley Family Dentistry
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $603,000
Project Purpose: Kennebec Valley Family Dentistry (KVFD) seeks to increase capacity by expanding into the additional 3,381 sq. ft. of “raw” space that’s adjacent to the existing clinic. The proposed expansion will allow for an additional five dental operatories, supplementing the eight we currently have, as well as other office/workspaces. This request is for Phase 1 of the expansion project, which is construction. Phase 2 is the purchase and installation of dental and computer equipment and clinic furnishings.
Recipient Name: Maine Children’s Home
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $525,000
Project Purpose: Our request for funding is to support renovations and modifications to our Family Counseling Center program so that it can be incorporated into this planned “Center for Connecting Families” to meld together two critical supports – the direct support of one-to-one client contact and the additional wrap-around supports of training, group therapy, preventative interventions and education for children, youth, families and professionals in a state-of-the-art trauma-informed setting.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Augusta)
Project: Cybersecurity Training Program
Funding Amount: $500,000
Project Purpose: This CDS proposal would support the University of Maine at Augusta’s development and delivery of in-person and online professional training for all Maine municipalities in cybersecurity, and support municipal official costs to attend training at UMA’s Augusta-based cyber range (including travel, housing and meals over summer).
Recipient Name: Alfond Youth & Community Center
Project: Alfond Youth and Community Center, Waterville, ME for targeted support services to children and families in need
Funding Amount: $500,000
Project Purpose: The Alfond Youth & Community Center Wellness Wraparound Program will provide those targeted services to our core families in need. This funding investment will help Alfond Youth & Community Center expand our programming to increase our capacity to serve children and families from underserved neighborhoods encouraging them to enroll and use free academic, health and wellness and educational community programming. This request will serve approximately 500 additional individuals.
Recipient Name: Central Maine Growth Council
Project: Dirigo Labs Accelerator Program
Funding Amount: $278,000
Project Purpose: Central Maine Growth Council’s (CMGC) Dirigo Labs accelerator program proposes an expansion to the scope of services which will include a SBIR/STTR Innovation Hub Project. With the aid of Congressionally directed funds, Dirigo Labs will diversify its current curriculum to incorporate access to federal contracts, research and development and technology transfer funding in the federal innovation arena.
Recipient Name: Augusta Downtown Alliance
Project: Cushnoc Historic Site
Funding Amount: $207,000
Project Purpose: To build a full-scale replica of the historic Cushnoc Trading Post and expand educational programming around the fort’s history and the contributions of Native Americans.
KNOX COUNTY
Recipient Name: Mid-Coast Health Net, Inc. (Knox Clinic)
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $2,105,000
Project Purpose: In response to the needs for expanded physician, dental, and mental health services, the Knox Clinic seeks to become a Federally Qualified Health Center. In collaboration with and at the behest of the Town of Thomaston, the clinic will relocate from its current borrowed space in Rockland to new space in Thomaston. Concurrent with that move, the clinic will increase the size of its medical staff, increase its dental capacity, and increase its mental health counseling services. This will require new construction and new personnel.
Recipient Name: Watts Hall Community Players
Project: Historic Watts Block Preservation
Funding Amount: $300,000
Project Purpose: Watts Hall Community Players (WHCP) is requesting support to install a new HVAC system that includes air purification technology to address COVID-19 safety needs of Watts Block.
Recipient Name: Town of Isle au Haut
Project: Isle au Haut Thoroughfare, ME; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Funding Amount: $150,000
Project Purpose: To fund the remaining costs for the first-time maintenance dredging of a federal navigation channel created by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1958.
Recipient Name: City of Rockland
Project: Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse Preservation
Funding Amount: $125,000
Project Purpose: To restore the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, an iconic Maine landmark, in need of repair and preservation to protect it from the elements, address rot in several locations, address chipping paint/lead safety, and restore missing or damaged architectural elements such as shutters, plaster, and wood trim. Project is critical to the region’s tourism economy.
LINCOLN COUNTY
Recipient Name: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Project: Innovation and Education Wing at Bigelow Laboratory
Funding Amount: $12,326,000
Project Purpose: To expand the main laboratory building in East Boothbay, Maine to meet increased demand for its transformative ocean science education initiatives and to support ongoing growth in its innovation and commercial work addressing global issues. The new wing will contain classrooms, artificial intelligence collaboration space, laboratories, as well as new additions to campus including Bigelow’s first teaching labs, a state of the art cryopreservation space for its growing patent repository business, and a
300-person forum that will be a resource for the broader community in the region.
Recipient Name: Town of Wiscasset
Project: Old Ferry Road Stream Crossing Improvement
Funding Amount: $1,312,000
Project Purpose: To replace a failed culvert and make road improvements to Old Ferry Road, the only access road to Maine Yankee Independent Spent Fuel Storage, Molnlycke Healthcare (a medical manufacturer), a Central Maine Power facility, and a town landing from which clam and worm harvesters depend on for their small harvesting businesses.
Recipient Name: Central Lincoln County YMCA
Project: Lincoln County Childcare Expansion
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: To increase the main YMCA facility with additional classrooms to expand enrollment and staffing for early child care education.
Recipient Name: Town of Alna
Project: Alna Egypt Road Bridge Replacement
Funding Amount: $570,000
Project Purpose: To replace a deteriorating bridge that supports mutual aid between Alna and several nearby communities, as well as principal access to the Hidden Valley Nature Center, a 1000-acre regionally significant recreational and educational preserve, and small businesses in the area.
Recipient Name: Boothbay Region YMCA
Project: Child Enrichment Center Expansion
Funding Amount: $500,000
Project Purpose: To expand the Boothbay Region YMCA Child Enrichment Center and McEvoy Lodge to be able to serve more working families in the region. The Child Enrichment Center serves infants through preschool age and follows a Montessori philosophy. The McEvoy Lodge is the site for school age (grades K-6) programming during after school hours and school vacation days as well as summer programming during the ten weeks of camp and additional weeks of school age childcare that bridge the end and beginning of each school year when camp is not in session.
OXFORD COUNTY
Recipient Name: Mainehealth (Stephens Memorial)
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $1,642,000
Project Purpose: The proposed PACE renovation will address the HVAC needs, provide private sleeping quarters and bathrooms, new work areas, educational space, and adequate garage space for maintaining and storing the ambulances.
Recipient Name: Town of Norway
Project: Norway Police and Community Space
Funding Amount: $850,000
Project Purpose: To renovate the Norway Town Hall building to better equip police, public safety, and provide enhanced community space.
Recipient Name: Maine Mineral and Gem Museum
Project: Equipment for Lithium and Geological Research
Funding Amount: $725,000
Project Purpose: To support the upgrade of research instrumentation in the museum’s lab and investment in the formal expansion of research capabilities and development of educational programs.
Recipient Name: Regional School Unit #10
Project: Mountain Valley Middle School Facility Improvements
Funding Amount: $1,167,036
Project Purpose: To build a new wellness and fitness center as part of the new community school to support mental health and other wellness activities for the seven town school district.
PENOBSCOT COUNTY
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Orono)
Project: Construction of an Advanced-Manufacturing Materials Research Facility
Funding Amount: $8,000,000
Project Purpose: To complete a second manufacturing bay and immersive workforce training facilities within the digital research Factory of the Future (FoF). This facility will advance large-scale, bio-based additive manufacturing using advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and collaborative arrays of large 3D printers and subtractive systems. The facility will drive innovation and new technology development in affordable housing, clean energy, construction, transportation, boatbuilding, and furniture industries. The FoF will expand Maine’s use of mass timber products beyond traditional warehouse-type spaces to a more demanding manufacturing setting. FoF will create paid training opportunities to 400+ workers per year in manufacturing technologies and operations.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Orono)
Project: PFAS Analytical Laboratory Equipment
Funding Amount: $5,000,000
Project Purpose: To create a PFAS Research Center to serve the monitoring needs of the state of Maine while advancing UMaine’s leadership in PFAS research through competitive research funding and training Maine’s workforce.
Recipient Name: Millinocket Regional Hospital
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $3,500,000
Project Purpose: The project funds needed renovations and expansion of the Millinocket Regional Hospital, including increasing bed capacity, improving ability to care for opioid dependent and psychiatric patients, addition of a decontamination room, and creation of a second entrance for accessing emergency care.
Recipient Name: Penquis C.A.P., Inc.
Project: FORESTpring: 3D Printed Affordable Housing Using ForestDerived Materials
Funding Amount: $3,000,000
Project Purpose: Penquis, along with its partners MaineHousing and the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, will build the first truly 3D-printed home in the US. This pilot program, using novel technologies developed by UMaine, will prove this building technique, all while producing nine single-family homes that will become permanent housing for the City of Bangor’s homeless population.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Orono)
Project: PFAS Research Center: Informing Farm Management Decisions
Funding Amount: $3,000,000
Project Purpose: To create a PFAS Research Center to serve the monitoring needs of the state of Maine while advancing UMaine’s leadership in PFAS research through competitive research funding and training Maine’s workforce.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Orono)
Project: Tick-Borne Disease Prevention in Northern New England
Funding Amount: $2,500,000
Project Purpose: To support the University of Maine Tick Lab’s establishment of a coordinated system of tick and tick-borne pathogen surveillance and risk communication in northern New England to address the staggering growth of the tick population in the region.
Recipient Name: Our Katahdin
Project: Combined Heat and Power System for One North Commercialization Hub
Funding Amount: $2,500,000
Project Purpose: Our Katahdin proposes installing a highly efficient biomass fueled power plant to generate electricity and provide thermal energy to the district heating system at the Commercialization Hub.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Orono)
Project: University of Maine Food Innovation Center
Funding Amount: $2,500,000
Project Purpose: The UMaine Food Innovation Center would expand the existing university food innovation pilot plan to provide needed processing services, production scale-up, product development, food safety and food quality to support Maine’s small-scale agriculture and aquaculture producers, while providing academic and workforce development opportunities for both youth and adults. The project would address the increasing demand for local food options in part due to the impacts of COVID (supply chain disruption, etc.) and help Maine capitalize on the ability to grow its landand water-based food economy and ensure Mainers have reliable access to affordable, healthy and safe local food.
Recipient Name: University of Maine (Orono)
Project: Tick-Borne Disease Management Strategies
Funding Amount: $2,021,000
Project Purpose: To identify alternatives to conventional pesticides designed to kill ticks and examine the intersection between climate and alternative tick management interventions.
Recipient Name: Acadia Hospital Corp d/b/a Northern Light Acadia Hospital
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $2,000,000
Project Purpose: Northern Light Acadia Hospital’s Congressionally Directed Spending Project request focuses on expanding access to pediatric inpatient care. Due to the lack of inpatient pediatric mental health beds in the state, every day at least 12-15 children are “stuck” in emergency rooms throughout Maine, sometimes waiting up to 20 days or more for admission to pediatric inpatient services. The $2 million dollar project request will support the construction of new inpatient pediatric care capacity at Acadia Hospital within the larger “Acadia For All” expansion project – a $56.2M project focusing on building additional psychiatric inpatient care capacity; expanding child, adolescent and geriatric services; and mental health workforce development.
Recipient Name: Town of Hampden
Project: Souadabscook Pump Station Replacement
Funding Amount: $2,000,000
Project Purpose: To provide water quality protection of the Souadabscook Stream and Penobscot River from contamination of raw sanitary waste discharges.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Orono)
Project: Rural Health Activities to Prevent Tick-Borne Diseases
Funding Amount: $1,653,000
Project Purpose: To support targeted public health outreach and education to rural communities in order to prevent tick-borne diseases.
Recipient Name: Town of East Millinocket
Project: East Millinocket Industrial Site Phase II
Funding Amount: $1,600,000
Project Purpose: This request will fund the renovation of the finishing room buildings, administration building, and machine shop building at the former GNP paper mill industrial site.
Recipient Name: Bangor Region YMCA
Project: Bangor Region YMCA Infant, Youth and Teen Education & Engagement Center
Funding Amount: $1,500,000
Project Purpose: The specific purpose of this request is to support the construction of a $16.57 million Infant, Youth and Teen Education & Engagement Center as part of the overall YMCA project.
Recipient Name: Eastern Maine Medical Center
Project: Facilities and Equipment Improvements
Funding Amount: $1,198,000
Project Purpose: Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center Ventilator Project replaces 28 aging and end of life inpatient ventilators within the critical and intensive care and other high acuity care clinical areas throughout the hospital.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Orono)
Project: Cultivating a Maine Agriculture Roadmap
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: To establish a Maine Agriculture Roadmap, building upon high-impact successful forestry and fisheries road mapping projects in Maine. To provide an inclusive, diverse stakeholder process by which to develop a unified direction for critical Maine industry that supports and grows rural jobs and opportunity and guides future policy and investments. To address grand challenges facing Maine and beyond, including climate change, food insecurity and public health outcomes, and rural sustainability.
Recipient Name: Our Katahdin
Project: Our Katahdin Innovation Center Renovations
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: Our Katahdin, in partnership Katahdin Higher Education Center, Four Directions Development Corporation, Maine Center for Entrepreneurs, the Town of Millinocket and the Katahdin Chamber of Commerce, is seeking CDS funds to provide workforce and entrepreneur incubation services to native and non-native populations upon completion of the renovation of 230 Penobscot Avenue to create the Katahdin Innovation Center.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Orono)
Project: University of Maine Sawing Operations Training Facility
Funding Amount: $750,000
Project Purpose: The University of Maine proposes to create a sawmill operations training facility to be located at the Dwight B. Demeritt Forest, north of the Orono campus. This 2,600 sq ft facility would provide year-round hybrid experiential and instructed training opportunities for students across UMS, Maine Community College System, CTEs and trade programs on the fundamentals of sawyer operations, including selecting log breakdown techniques based on log quality and targeted applications to increase sawlog value, improve lumber grade, and improve processing efficiency.
Recipient Name: Husson University
Project: Science Equipment and Technology Improvements
Funding Amount: $726,000
Project Purpose: Husson University seeks Community Project Funds (CPF) to assist with the purchase of the scientific and laboratory equipment needed to support infrastructure changes and to assist with the purchase of additional equipment specific to our healthcare programs.
Recipient Name: St. Joseph Ambulatory Care, Inc
Project: Breast Cancer Detection Equipment
Funding Amount: $708,000
Project Purpose: To provide the highest quality of imaging services for the early detection of breast cancer through the acquisition of Senographe Pristina 3D equipment to meet the growing demand for these services.
Recipient Name: Pir2Peer Recovery Community Center
Project: Pir2Peer Recovery Center Building Purchase
Funding Amount: $529,000
Project Purpose: To provide funding for Pir2Peer Recovery Center to buy their building.
Recipient Name: University of Maine System (Orono)
Project: Maine Entrepreneurship Fellowship & Incubator
Funding Amount: $300,000
Project Purpose: Maine Entrepreneurship Fellowship and Incubator will address a talent gap in the commercialization of R&D in Maine by recruiting and training early-career professionals through hands-on experience working with researchers to commercialize an innovation. The introduction of the Maine Entrepreneurship Fellowship will provide an opportunity to train the CEOs of tomorrow and to grow businesses in the state of Maine.
Recipient Name: Town of Brewer
Project: Brewer Recreational Facility Energy Modernization Project
Funding Amount: $232,000
Project Purpose: To reduce energy usage and improve safety at Doyle Field by replacing outdated metalhalide lighting with a new energy efficient LED lighting system.
Recipient Name: Maine Multicultural Center
Project: Immigrant Housing Solutions Facility and Equipment
Funding Amount: $81,000
Project Purpose: The Maine MultiCultural Center (MMCC) proposes to collaborate with the Eastern Maine Development Corporation (EMDC) and other community partners to purchase multi-unit structures to serve as transitional housing, combined with building a fund that will assist in meeting down payments for rental agreements and provide assurance of payment in the absence of credit and rental history would help to overcome the housing barriers faced by refugees and asylum seekers trying to relocate to our community.
PISCATAQUIS COUNTY
Recipient Name: Maine Department of Transportation (Abbot-Greenville)
Project: Abbot-Greenville Route 15 Rehabilitation
Funding Amount: $16,000,000
Project Purpose: To rehabilitate Route 15 from Abbot to Greenville. Current roadway conditions are rated poor to very poor by MEDOT and FHWA metrics; this project will restore this section of Route 15 to a state of good repair.
Recipient Name: Moosehead Caring for Kids Foundation
Project: Greenville Little School House Childcare, Pre-K and Community Center
Funding Amount: $1,561,000
Project Purpose: Moosehead Caring for Kids Foundation is partnering with the Town of Greenville and Greenville Consolidated School to build a new facility to house a childcare center, pre-K classrooms, and a community recreation center. This new facility will be located on the school grounds on the site of the former elementary school, reusing the existing building foundation pad and utility connections. This new site includes access to the public water supply and sewer which is needed to expand early childcare services and after-school childcare services.
Recipient Name: Northern Forest Center
Project: Northern Forest Wood Construction & Housing Innovation
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: To accelerate the use of mass timber and other new wood products in construction and infrastructure projects, creating resilient, environmentally friendly infrastructure that also supports the region’s forest economy. These projects will integrate forest economy and community revitalization program areas to increase local impact.
Recipient Name: Town of Greenville
Project: Greenville Public Safety Building
Funding Amount: $902,000
Project Purpose: To construct a new public safety building in Greenville to house the town’s police department and other critical first responder services.
Recipient Name: Helping Hands with Heart/Maine Highlands
Project: Youth Mentoring Initiative
Funding Amount: $426,000
Project Purpose: To help fund a Youth Mentor Initiative in Piscataquis County for issue-specific efforts such as prevention of substance use, or juvenile justice interventions.
Recipient Name: Piscataquis Regional Food Center
Project: Community Kitchen Incubator
Funding Amount: $92,000
Project Purpose: This project will enable PRFC to achieve its goal of adding food processing to its list of services by making it possible to acquire a variety of critical pieces of processing equipment.
SAGADAHOC COUNTY
Recipient Name: Midcoast Maine Community Action
Project: Midcoast Maine Community Action Facility Upgrades
Funding Amount: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: To rehabilitate their facility that provides the space for our programs that serve very low to moderately low income persons in our community. Project includes upgrading key infrastructure in the building, including installing a more modern HVAC system, that will improve their carbon footprint and impact on the environment.
SOMERSET COUNTY
Recipient Name: Town of Anson
Project: North Anson Fire Station
Funding Amount: $1,500,000
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