AUBURN – A $200,000 federal grant should help the city identify possible environmental clean-up sites.

The Environmental Protection Agency is scheduled to announce brownfields grants for five communities in Maine this morning. One, a $200,000 assessment grant, is earmarked for Auburn.

EPA officials are scheduled to announce the grant at 10 a.m. in Auburn Hall. The four other Maine communities scheduled to get EPA grants are Caribou, North Berwick, Springvale and Westbrook.

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

“Auburn has never received brownfields money before,” said Community Business Specialist Maureen Aube. 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.

Auburn does not have a list of clean-up sites yet.

“The grant we’re getting is to help us determine those sites,” she said. Applying for money to actually do the clean-up work is the next step, she said.