LEWISTON – The Environmental Protection Agency announced more than $2 million in nine brownfields grants for Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties on Tuesday.

The money will help identify future cleanup sites in those counties and help remove pollution from a Lewiston mill site.

Brownfields grants are earmarked for cleaning up contaminated properties that are valuable to a community for potential redevelopment or reuse, according to the EPA.

The grants included $200,000 to clean the former Androscoggin Mill at 18 Locust St. The mill was built in 1860 as part of a textile complex and was later used as an auto repair shop and for coal storage. It’s contaminated with volatile chemicals, PCBs and inorganic compounds.

The project is being managed by the city.

“It’s going to be cleaned up, cleared out and the actual building will be torn down and made into a green space,” said Jim Andrews, Lewiston’s economic and community development director. The site was also home to an old blacksmith shop and contains a concrete foundation to another building. The EPA grant could be used to remove those, as well.

Lewiston has received $1.6 million in the environmental grants since the EPA began the program in 1995, much of it to clean up around the city’s old mill buildings.

The EPA also announced a $200,000 assessment grant for the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments to identify future cleanup sites in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties.

According to the EPA, the grant will be enough to conduct nine site assessments.

Other brownfields recipients in Maine are:

• The South Brewer Redevelopment, LLC, which received $400,000 to clean up the Eastern Fine paper sites on Oak and South Main streets.

• The Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission, which received $400,000 to assess communitywide hazardous substances and petroleum.

• The Hancock County Planning Commission, which received $200,000 to assess communitywide hazardous substances.

• The Kennebec Valley Council of Governments, which received $200,000 to assess communitywide hazardous substances.

• The city of Sanford, which received $200,000 to assess community-wide hazardous substances.

• The town of Oakland, which received $200,000 to clean up the Cascade Woolen Mill site.

• The town of Pittsfield, which received $40,000 to clean up an Eelweir Road site.