Deadline: 30-Mar-23
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking applications to Support National Brownfields Training Conference.
EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, tribal nations, communities, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites.
The EPA’s Brownfields Program is built upon four basic goals and principles – protecting the environment, partnering for success, stimulating the marketplace, and promoting sustainable reuse. EPA is committed to supporting technical assistance that will further the goals of the program and provide enhanced knowledge, tools, and processes to a broad range of stakeholders (e.g., tribal, state, local and other non-governmental entities), especially to small, rural, and underserved communities.
Topics
- Brownfields-related conference topics may include:
- Brownfields inventory, planning, assessment and cleanup approaches, policies and technologies
- Brownfields redevelopment activities
- Use of environmental insurance
- Community engagement activities for finding solutions to brownfields challenges
- Climate-smart solutions for sustainability of brownfield’s revitalization, greenspace preservation, and site preparation for green buildings
- Equitable development, anti-displacement, and environmental justice approaches for brownfields revitalization
- Financing brownfields assessment, cleanup, and subsequent redevelopment activities
- Community involvement best practices
- Health impacts of brownfields
- Best practices for brownfields revitalization at the state, tribal, and local levels of government
- Best practices for industry and community groups interested in brownfield revitalization.
- Compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements applicable to EPA brownfields assessment, revolving loan fund, multipurpose and cleanup grants.
Funding Information
The total estimated funding available under this competitive opportunity (excluding program income from registration fees) is approximately $2,700,000, subject to the availability of funds, quality of proposals received, and other applicable considerations. EPA expects to award approximately $900,000 in FY2023 to support the first of three National Brownfields Training Conferences. EPA expects to distribute the rest of the funding incrementally in approximately $900,000 allotments every two years (FY2025 and FY2027) to support the subsequent two conferences over the course of the 7-year agreement.
Eligibility Criteria
The following information indicates which entities are eligible to apply for this cooperative agreement:
- General Purpose Unit of Local Government. [For purposes of the EPA Brownfields cooperative agreement Program, a “local government” is defined as stated under 2 CFR § 200.64.: Local government means a county, municipality, city, town, township, local public authority (including any public and Indian housing agency under the United States Housing Act of 1937), school district, special district, intrastate district, council of governments (whether or not incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under state law), any other regional or interstate government entity, or any agency or instrumentality of a local government.]
- Land Clearance Authority or another quasi-governmental entity that operates under the supervision and control of, or as an agent of, a general-purpose unit of local government.
- Government Entity Created by State Legislature.
- Regional Council or group of General-Purpose Units of Local Government.
- Redevelopment Agency that is chartered or otherwise sanctioned by a state.
- State.
- Indian tribe other than in Alaska. (The exclusion of Alaskan Tribes from Brownfields cooperative agreement eligibility is statutory at CERCLA § 104(k)(1)). Intertribal Consortia, comprised of eligible Indian tribes, are eligible for funding in accordance with EPA’s policy for funding intertribal consortia published in the Federal Register on November 4, 2002, at 67 Fed. Reg. 67181.)
- Alaska Native Regional Corporation, Alaska Native Village Corporation, and Metlakatla Indian Community. (Alaska Native Regional Corporations and Alaska Native Village Corporations are defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 and following.)
- Nonprofit organization exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
- Limited liability corporation in which all managing members are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations or limited liability corporations whose sole members are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
- Limited liability partnership in which all general partners are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations or limited liability corporations whose sole members are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
- Qualified community development entity as defined in Section 45D(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
- Other Nonprofit organizations. (For purposes of this cooperative agreement program, the term “nonprofit organization” means any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that is operated mainly for scientific, educational, service, charitable, or similar purpose in the public interest; is not organized primarily for profit; and uses net proceeds to maintain, improve, or expand the operation of the organization. The term includes nonprofit colleges, universities, and other educational institutions.)
Note: individuals, for-profit organizations, and nonprofit organizations exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that lobby are not eligible to receive Brownfields cooperative agreements.
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