The Friends of The Boat School Marine Trades Development Corporation has been awarded $675,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s competitive FY23 Brownfield Cleanup Grant for environmental hazard mitigation. Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the grant will allow The Boat School to remove potential threats to human health and the environment in the three industrial-style buildings of the 8.4-acre Maine Marine Technology Center campus on Deep Cove Road, Eastport: The Boat School, Harborhood Community Center and Deep Cove Marine Science Station, known as the BioLab. Appropriate disposal to avoid accidental exposure or release ensures that these hazardous materials do not enter the general waste stream.
According to the EPA website, “The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law invests $5.4 billion in cleaning up legacy pollution at Superfund and brownfields sites, helping to restore the economic vitality of communities.” Under the Brownfields Revitalization program, “Blighted and polluted sites in communities across America will be assessed, cleaned up and made available for safe reuse, spurring job creation and economic opportunity in areas that need it most.”
You can download and review our Community Relations Plan and ANALYSIS OF BROWNFIELDS CLEANUP ALTERNATIVES below:
Community Relations Plan
ANALYSIS OF BROWNFIELDS CLEANUP ALTERNATIVES
Request for Bid
Engineering drawings
Engineering Specs
Responses to contractor’s questions and requests for information at the November 6, 2024 site tour
Request for Bids Roof Replacement
Replacement of Roof and Removal of Roof Asbestos Brownfields CleanUp Program
The Friends of The Boat School Marine Trades Development Corporation (FOBS), a nonprofit corporation, has received a US EPA Brownfields Cleanup Grant.
FOBS is seeking bids from roofing contractors to provide a 211 ft x 101 ft replacement standing seam metal roof. Campbell Environmental Group, Inc. has been hired by FOTBSMTDC to assist in administering the US EPA Brownfields Cleanup Grant.
The complete Request for Bid, Engineering drawings, Engineering Specs and recent pictures and videos can be accessed here.
Key Project Dates are:
10/25/24 – Notice of Request for Bids
11/7/24 – Site Tour 1:00 PM
12/6/24 – Written questions due
12/13/24 – Bids due
12/16/24 – Private bid opening
1/15/2025 – Contract Award
Late Spring 2025 – Construction
Please RSVP to info@theboatschool.org if you will participate in site tour. While not mandatory, attendance is strongly encouraged. If you intend to submit a bid, please notify us at info@theboatschool.org