Pingree Announces American Rescue Plan Relief for 5 Maine Airports

Statement

Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced American Rescue Plan funding for five Maine airports in the First Congressional District. The $187,000 in grants, awarded through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), will provide economic relief for airports' costs related to operations, personnel, cleaning, sanitization, debt service payments, and combating the spread of pathogens.

"Since the beginning of the pandemic, it's been clear that our airports need additional support to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus. Ensuring our travel hubs have the resources they need to follow health safety protocols is essential in our continued fight against Covid and the spread of its variants. Airports need this federal support so they can continue to limit those dangers as much as possible," said Pingree. "Smaller airports in particular have been economically strained as they work to ensure employees' and travelers' safety. Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, which I proudly helped pass, relief like this is continuing to help us defeat this virus."

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