Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Senator Susan Collins highlighted $8.3 million in projects at Acadia National Park funded under President Obama’s economic recovery package that will bring jobs and economic growth to Maine.

Investment in the park under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed earlier this year by the president includes $170,000 to replace safety and informational signs, $2.2 million to resurface roads and parking lots, $844,000 to repair culverts and headwalls, $268,000 to remove unneeded buildings, and $4.4 million to rehabilitate roads and parking areas at the Schoodic Education and Research Center