PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE
CLEANUP OF THE ENGINEERING BUILDING AND PILOT PLANT
FORMER GREAT NORTHERN PAPER COMPANY
MILLINOCKET, MAINE

Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Our Katahdin Office, 245 Aroostook Avenue, Millinocket, Maine and via Zoom

Our Katahdin will hold a public meeting to discuss the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-funded Brownfields Cleanup Project for the Engineering Building and Pilot Plant located at 1 Katahdin Avenue in Millinocket, at the former Great Northern Paper Mill Site. The public meeting will be held on Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 6:00 PM at Our Katahdin’s Offices located at 245 Aroostook Avenue in Millinocket. The meeting will also be televised via Zoom teleconferencing (information below).

PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE
CLEANUP OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
BUILDING/CLARIFIER
FORMER GREAT NORTHERN PAPER COMPANY
MILLINOCKET, MAINE

Thursday, January 5 th at 6:00 PM
Our Katahdin Office, 245 Aroostook Avenue, Millinocket, Maine and via Zoom (information below)

Our Katahdin will hold a public meeting to discuss the Brownfields Cleanup Project for the former Wastewater Treatment Plant Building and Clarifier located at 1 Katahdin Avenue in Millinocket, at the former Great Northern Paper Mill Site. The public meeting will be held on Thursday, January 5, 2023, at 6:00 PM at Our Katahdin’s Offices located at 245 Aroostook Avenue in Millinocket. The meeting will also be televised via Zoom teleconferencing.

This notice is to inform the community that there will be a public meeting via zoom to discuss the U.S. EPA Brownfield Cleanup Grant Application submitted by Our Katahdin for cleanup of the Tank Farm on the One North industrial site (formerly Great Northern Paper Company). A copy of the grant narrative and a Draft Analysis of Brownfield Cleanup Alternatives (ABCA) along with information to log onto the Zoom meeting can be found below.

Tank Farm Cleanup Grant - Narrative

Tank Farm Cleanup Grant - ABCA

Topic: Public Meeting - Tank Farm Cleanup
Time: Nov 1, 2022 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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This notice is to inform the public that Our Katahdin Capital is submitting an application to receive funding from the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) to perform cleanup activities at the former Miller’s Department Store located at 230 Penobscot Avenue in Millinocket, Maine. RLF Grant funds would be used to cleanup and abate pigeon guano and hazardous building materials to support redevelopment and reuse of the building. A copy of the draft application and a Draft Analysis of Brownfield Cleanup Alternatives (ABCA) is currently available for public review at the Our Katahdin Capital office located at 245 Aroostook Avenue in Millinocket, and on Our Katahdin Capital’s website.

Our Katahdin Capital will be receiving public comments on these documents until Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. Comments can be submitted in writing to Mr. Steve Sanders via email at steve at onekatahdin dot com. Please include your full name, address, telephone number, and email address in your correspondence.

This notice is to inform the public that Our Katahdin is submitting an application to receive funding from the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) to perform cleanup activities at the Research Building/Pilot Plant located at 1 Katahdin Avenue at the former Great Northern Paper Mill Site. RLF Grant and/or loan funds would be used to repair the roof of the structure after asbestos abatement had occurred, in order to support redevelopment and reuse of the building. A copy of the draft application and a Draft Analysis of Brownfield Cleanup Alternatives (ABCA) is currently available for public review at the Our Katahdin office located at 245 Aroostook Avenue in Millinocket, and on Our Katahdin’s website.

Our Katahdin will be receiving public comments on these documents until Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. Comments can be submitted in writing to Mr. Steve Sanders, Director of Mill Site Redevelopment via email at steve at onekatahdin dot com. Please include your full name, address, telephone number, and email address in your correspondence.

This notice is to inform the public that Our Katahdin is submitting an application to receive funding from the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) to perform cleanup activities at the abandoned Wastewater Treatment Plant and Clarifier Structure located off the Medway Road (across from the airport) at the former Great Northern Paper Mill Site. RLF Grant and/or loan funds would be used to abate hazardous building materials and demolish the Site buildings to support redevelopment and reuse of the Site. A copy of the draft application and a Draft Analysis of Brownfield Cleanup Alternatives (ABCA) is currently available for public review at the Our Katahdin office located at 245 Aroostook Avenue in Millinocket, and on Our Katahdin’s website.

Our Katahdin will be receiving public comments on these documents until Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. Comments can be submitted in writing to Mr. Steve Sanders, Director of Mill Site Redevelopment via email at steve at onekatahdin dot com. Please include your full name, address, telephone number, and email address in your correspondence.

Topic: Administration Building Cleanup

Time: June 21, 2022 6:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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MILLINOCKET – Creating the next generation of a river-driven power system will be the focus of a testing facility at One North, the former Great Northern Paper Mill site in Millinocket.

Portland-based Ocean Renewable Power Co. announced Monday it was partnering with Our Katahdin to create the testing center.

Ocean Renewable, known as ORPC, develops renewable power systems that harness energy from free-flowing rivers and tidal currents. Read more

Our Katahdin's 2021 Year in Review. Hear about the progress, challenges and way forward. Thank you for your engagement and support.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Our Katahdin a Brownfields Cleanup Grant in the sum of $500,000 to support redevelopment of Brownfields impacted by hazardous substances on the former Great Northern Paper mill in Millinocket, Maine.

OK is requesting information on qualifications from qualified environmental engineering/consulting firms to assist with implementation of the grant-funded cleanup.

Our Katahdin - RFP Research Building Brownfields Cleanup 2021

Cooperative Agreement with USEPA

Topic: OK's EPA Brownfield Application Public Meeting

Time: Nov 15, 2021 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Grant Documents

2022 Engineering Building Cleanup Grant - Narrative

2022 Engineering Building Cleanup Grant - ABCA

Our Katahdin Awarded $5.3 Million grant to invest in former mill site

It's Our Heritage - Bangor Daily News

Collins, King, Poliquin Applaud Purchase of Former Millinocket Mill - Joint Statement

Sen. King Tours Katahdin Region and Former Mill Site in Hopes of Economic Development - WABI 5

Nonprofit buys former Great Northern Paper holdings in Millinocket - Portland Press Herald

Katahdin group buys former Great Northern Paper mill site in Millinocket - Bangor Daily News

Millinocket receives portion of mill site in 'Our Katahdin' deal - News Center Maine

Nonprofit acquires Millinocket mill site, plans collaboration with town on redevelopment - Mainebiz

BOSTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that three grantees in the state of Maine have been selected to receive $1.3 million to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency's Brownfields Program.

These funds will support under-served and economically disadvantaged communities around the state in assessing and cleaning up abandoned industrial and commercial properties. The Maine grant award announcements are among 151 communities across the nation to receive 154 grant awards totaling $66.5 million in Brownfields funding through its Multipurpose, Assessment, and Cleanup (MAC) Grants.

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Millinocket, ME - Our Katahdin, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, has reached a $450,000 settlement amount with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that will allow for full discharge of the $1.5 million federal lien on the 1,400-acre former Great Northern Paper mill site in Millinocket. This federal lien is a legacy debt that came with the property and has been a primary impediment to redeveloping the mill site.

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Bangor Daily News coverage

Development of a downtown hub to support entrepreneurs, remote workers, and small businesses in downtown Millinocket is underway. Our Katahdin is pleased to announce that Liz Trice, the founder and owner of the co-working space PelotonLabs in Portland, ME has been awarded a contract to work with the Our Katahdin team to design a business plan and operations manual for a co-working space at 230 Penobscot Avenue in Millinocket, ME.

Our Katahdin firmly believes that supporting and growing small businesses in rural communities will lead to sustainable economic growth and more vibrant downtowns.

Our Katahdin President Sean DeWitt with an update on the latest developments at the One Katahdin industrial park.

Update on the Millinocket Mill Site, Broadband, 230 Penobscot and more.  March 30th, 2017 at KRHEC in East Millinocket.

By CHARLES LAWTON - For at least a generation, economic development in the great North Woods of Maine had to be one of two things – either revitalization of forestry and logging and the industrial mill jobs they supported, or creation of parks and tourist attractions that would provide the economic base of the future. It couldn’t be both, proponents of each side argued.

Parks and tourists, industrial supporters argued, would bring government and regulations that would stifle the logging industry and bar hunting, fishing, snowmobiling and other traditionally easy access to and use of large tracts of forest land not owned by but available to local residents...

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MILLINOCKET, Maine - (January 12, 2017) – Our Katahdin, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the Katahdin region, has acquired the former Great Northern Paper assets in Millinocket, including all property, designations, and liabilities held by GNP West, GNP Holdings II, and the New England Center for Business Development. Transfer of stewardship of the properties was finalized on January 11, 2017.

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- Recent article in the Bangor Daily News

We are excited and humbled to receive the Maine Development Foundation's "Champion of Economic Development" award for 2016.  Thank you to all of the donors and volunteers who are helping move the region forward!