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improving cultural assets, including

 
libraries, museums, historical buildings,

 
theaters and arts facilities.

 
AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND RURAL RESOURCES,

 
DEPARTMENT OF

 
Provides funds for sustainable water sources$1,000,000

 
and irrigation system development, to leverage

 
private funds of at least $800,000.

 
Funds to replenish the Agricultural Marketing$1,000,000

 
Loan Fund to support farm business development,

 
to leverage private funds of at least $600,000.

 
MARINE RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF

 
Provides funds for grants through the$3,000,000

 
Working Waterfronts Conservation Program

 
to leverage $3,000,000 in matching funds.

 
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM

 
Provides funds to furnish and outfit the$5,000,000

 
new bioscience building at the University

 
of Southern Maine with laboratories and

 
equipment to leverage $1,200,000 in

 
federal funds.

 
State match to build the University of Maine$6,000,000

 
cold water aquaculture marine science

 
facility. Funds will leverage approximately

 
$10,000,000 in federal funds.

 
Funds to outfit the Laboratory for Surface$4,000,000

 
Science Technology clean room facility at

 
the University of Maine with state-of-the-art

 
nanofabrication tools and instrumentation.

 
These funds help leverage $4,000,000 in

 
federal grants and contracts for research.

 
Funds to renovate Camden Hall on the$3,000,000

 
University of Maine-Bangor campus for a

 
graduate school for biomedical science.

 
Provides funds for the career center$2,000,000

 
facility at the University of Southern

 
Maine's Lewiston-Auburn College.

 
Funds will be used for capital costs

 
and equipment for the center.


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