Deadline: 14-Feb-23
EPA’s Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization (OBLR) is soliciting applications from eligible entities to provide technical assistance to assist communities facing brownfields challenges within the geographic areas.
Objectives
TAB cooperative agreement recipients may provide the following types of activities:
- Review and explain technical reports (such as those related to site sampling and analysis, site assessment, and government regulations);
- Provide information about environmental science, environmental policy, and other technical matters;
- Help communities understand and communicate health risks associated with a brownfield site;
- Provide information to assist the community to better understand environmental issues and how these issues affect brownfield cleanup and redevelopment;
- Facilitate meetings between the local community, developers, lenders, and others involved in the cleanup and reuse of brownfield properties;
- Facilitate brownfield redevelopment efforts by supporting community involvement and other stakeholder participation activities;
- Facilitate community visioning and reuse sessions and generate written documentation of the results of the technical assistance;
- Provide assistance to communities dealing with brownfields-issues related to plant closures, or other significant economic disruptions, including the adverse impacts of natural disasters, or other sector-based economic issues;
- Provide assistance in understanding and complying with state Brownfields/Voluntary Cleanup Program requirements, including land use restrictions and other land use controls;
- Provide application review services and host cooperative agreement application writing workshops (but TAB recipients are not to provide cooperative agreement application writing services to individual applicants or potential applicants for EPA funding); and
- Host workshops and community engagement events to help establish and build strong community relationships.
- Provide technical assistance to applicants and recipients of Brownfields grants on compliance with competitive procurement requirements, administrative cost limitations, and similar activities that will help communities use EPA Brownfields funding in compliance with applicable requirements.
Focus Areas
- Community Involvement
- Health Impacts of Brownfield Sites
- Science and Technology Relating to Brownfields Assessment, Remediation, and Site Preparation
- Integrated Approaches to Brownfields Assessment, Cleanup and Redevelopment
- Brownfields Finance
- State, Territorial Tribal, and Local Government Brownfields Programs
Funding Information
- The total estimated funding available under this competitive opportunity is $53,000,000 subject to the availability of funds, quality of applications received and other applicable considerations.
- The maximum funding for applications supporting geographic areas 1-10 shall not exceed $5,000,000 and the maximum funding for geographic area 11 is $3,000,000. Although an award may exceed $5,000,000 if it contains combined proposals.
Outcomes
- EPA anticipates outcomes from projects awarded under this announcement will include increasing the capacity of nonfederal governmental entities, nonprofit organizations, and brownfields stakeholders to:
- assess, cleanup and bring about sustainable reuse of brownfield properties;
- ensure communities are better informed and equipped with the capacity to effectively address and be involved in brownfield activities;
- focus attention on the environmental and human health conditions in low income communities and socio-economically disadvantaged communities unable to draw on alternative sources of funding for assessment or cleanup of brownfields and their subsequent redevelopment;
- improve community involvement, communication, and the development of partnerships among differing stakeholders and increase partnerships for leveraging necessary funding; and
- enable communities to stimulate economic and other beneficial reuses of brownfield sites to improve environmental conditions and human health.
Eligible Projects
- Technical Assistance for Brownfields eligible uses of cooperative agreement funds include direct costs necessary to provide brownfields technical assistance identified in the approved workplan. This includes eligible programmatic costs necessary to perform your project, such as: costs for personnel, technical experts, materials, supplies, room rentals, employee travel, and transportation expenses.
Eligibility Criteria
- General Purpose Unit of 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.
- Alaska Native Regional Corporation, Alaska Native Village Corporation, and Metlakatla Indian Community.
- 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.
- Other Nonprofit organizations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344532