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Afternoon sun shines Monday on the Griggs Building on 1st Street in Havre. The H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board heard a proposal Monday to clean up asbestos from the Griggs Building, which the board is in the process of preparing to be the future home of the museum.
This artist's rendering depicts what the remodeled Griggs Printing building will look like once the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board completes moving the museum into the building.
It looks like a cleanup of the future home of the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum will soon be approved.
Elaine Morse, president of the H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Foundation, said during a meeting of the museum board Monday she will recommend the foundation board approve the cleanup effort.
The plan would clean asbestos out of the Griggs Printing building on the 400 Block of 1st Street, purchased by the foundation as the future home of the museum. The effort would, in part, be paid through a Brownfield cleanup program administered by Bear Paw Development Corp.
An inspection funded by Bear Paw's Brownfield assessment program revealed that the Griggs Printing building contained with asbestos.
Samantha Chagnon from Bear Paw Development and Christin Hileman, a Brownfield specialist from NewFields, jointly explained and fielded questions regarding the options for cleanup, details within each option and further possible grants.
The plan entails removing asbestos-containing building materials from the main building roof and basement. The greater portion of the project, $8,000, would be funded by a sub-grant from the Bear Paw Developmental Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund. The RLF was established using a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
An additional $1,600 will need to be paid in cash.
In 2014, Bear Paw Development Corporation was awarded a $400,000 Environmental Protection Agency Brownfield Assessment Grant. The point of the grant is to pay for environmental inspections on properties containing hazardous materials, including asbestos and lead-based paint.
"Award of this grant provides Bear Paw a unique opportunity to assist communities with revitalization of marginalized lands, improve the quality of life of area residents and increase local and regional tax base," a Bear Paw statements says.
The Bear Paw Brownfield Program is aimed at helping revitalize contaminated sites within the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, and Blaine Chouteau, Hill, Liberty and Phillips counties. Fort Belknap Indian Reservation has its own Brownfield program. Money for inspections is available to private or public entities that meet the requirement.
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Tim Leeds contributed to this story
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