| improving cultural assets, including |
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| libraries, museums, historical buildings, |
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| theaters and arts facilities. |
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| AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND RURAL RESOURCES, |
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| Provides funds for sustainable water sources | | $1,000,000 |
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| and irrigation system development, to leverage |
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| private funds of at least $800,000. |
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| Funds to replenish the Agricultural Marketing | | $1,000,000 |
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| Loan Fund to support farm business development, |
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| to leverage private funds of at least $600,000. |
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| MARINE RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF |
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| Provides funds for grants through the | | $3,000,000 |
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| Working Waterfronts Conservation Program |
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| to leverage $3,000,000 in matching funds. |
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| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM |
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| Provides funds to furnish and outfit the | | $5,000,000 |
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| new bioscience building at the University |
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| of Southern Maine with laboratories and |
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| equipment to leverage $1,200,000 in |
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| State match to build the University of Maine | | $6,000,000 |
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| cold water aquaculture marine science |
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| facility. Funds will leverage approximately |
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| $10,000,000 in federal funds. |
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| Funds to outfit the Laboratory for Surface | | $4,000,000 |
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| Science Technology clean room facility at |
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| the University of Maine with state-of-the-art |
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| nanofabrication tools and instrumentation. |
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| These funds help leverage $4,000,000 in |
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| federal grants and contracts for research. |
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| Funds to renovate Camden Hall on the | | $3,000,000 |
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| University of Maine-Bangor campus for a |
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| graduate school for biomedical science. |
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| Provides funds for the career center | | $2,000,000 |
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| facility at the University of Southern |
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| Maine's Lewiston-Auburn College. |
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| Funds will be used for capital costs |
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| and equipment for the center. |
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