WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Collins Announces Penobscot Nation DOI Funding Restored Washington, D.C. - Following a meeting last month with Chief Kirk Francis of the Penobscot Nation and further consultation with the Administration, today, Senator Collins announced that her office has received notice from the Department of the Interior (DOI) that $4 million in previously paused federal funding for the Nation has resum  more