Deadline: 22-Nov-22
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pleased to announce the applications for Brownfields Cleanup Grants Program to provide funding to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites owned by the applicant.
Uses of Grant Funds
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In addition to direct costs associated with the cleanup of a brownfield site, Cleanup Grant funds may be used for:
- Direct costs associated with programmatic management of the grant, such as required performance reporting, cleanup oversight, and environmental monitoring of cleanup work.
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A local government may use up to 10% of its grant funds for the following activities:
- health monitoring of populations exposed to hazardous substances from a brownfield site; and
- monitoring and enforcement of any institutional control used to prevent human exposure to any hazardous substance from a brownfield site.
- A portion of the Brownfields Grant may be used to purchase environmental insurance.
Funding Information
- The estimated total funding available for Cleanup Grants under this solicitation is approximately $60 million. EPA anticipates awarding an estimated 40 Cleanup Grants for up to $500,000, an estimated 25 Cleanup Grants for projects that are between $500,001 and $1,000,000, and an estimated 8 Cleanup Grants for projects that are between $1,000,001 and $2,000,000.
- The project period for Cleanup Grants is up to four years.
Eligibility Criteria
The following information indicates which entities are eligible to apply for a Cleanup Grant.
- General Purpose Unit of Local Government. [For purposes of the EPA Brownfields Grant Program, EPA uses the definition of Local government at 2 CFR § 200.1: 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 established under governmental authority or group of General Purpose Units of Local Government established under Federal, state or local law (e.g., councils of governments) to function as a single legal entity with authority to enter into binding agreements with the Federal Government.
- Redevelopment Agency that is chartered or otherwise sanctioned by a state.
- State.
- Indian tribe other than in Alaska. (The exclusion of Tribes from Alaska, with the exception of the Metlakatla Indian Community as noted below, from Brownfields Grant 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 described in 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 partnership in which all general partners are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations or limited corporations whose sole members are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=343487