Deadline: 14-Feb-23
The EPA’s Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization (OBLR) is soliciting applications for funding, which authorizes funding to eligible entities to provide training, research, and technical assistance to facilitate the inventory of brownfield sites, site assessments, remediation of brownfield sites, community involvement, or site preparation.
Topic
The EPA anticipates awarding approximately one grant in each of the five topic areas below:
- Nation-wide technical assistance for Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grant recipients (RLF TA)
- Nation-wide technical assistance to nonprofits seeking to reuse brownfields sites (Nonprofits TA)
- Nation-wide technical assistance to local government leaders on developing and/or operating brownfields programs within their jurisdictions (Local Government TA)
- Research, technical assistance, and related outreach on minimizing displacement resulting from brownfields assessment, cleanup and reuse (Anti-displacement research)
- Research, technical assistance, and related outreach on land banking approaches for brownfields revitalization (Land banks research)
Funding Information
- Topic 1: Nation-wide Technical Assistance for Brownfields RLF programs (Funding up to $1,000,000 with a 5 year period of performance)
- Topic 2: Technical Assistance to Nonprofits Seeking to Reuse Brownfields (Funding up to $1,000,000 with a 5 year period of performance)
- Topic 3: Nation-wide Technical Assistance to Local Government Leaders on Developing and/or Operating Brownfields Programs Within their Jurisdictions (Funding up to $1,000,000 with a 5 year period of performance)
- Topic 4: Research, Technical Assistance, and Related Outreach on Minimizing Displacement Resulting from Brownfields Assessment, Cleanup and Reuse (Funding up to $500,000 with a 4 year period of performance)
- Topic 5: Research, Technical Assistance and Related Outreach on Land Banking Approaches for Brownfields Revitalization (Funding up to $500,000 with a 4 year period of performance)
Outcomes
EPA anticipates outcomes from cooperative agreements expected to be awarded under this announcement will include, but not be limited to, increasing the capacity of brownfields stakeholders to assess, cleanup, and safely reuse brownfields by:
- Managing a brownfields RLF program successfully over the long-term;
- Developing nonprofit expertise and experience to lead brownfield revitalization projects in local communities;
- Local leadership and engagement from elected officials and staff throughout the brownfields reuse process;
- Minimizing displacement and maximizing benefits to the existing community due to changes that may be sparked by brownfields reuse;
- Expanding community use of land banks as a tool for brownfields revitalization;
- Applying for brownfields grant opportunities as a result of receiving technical assistance;
- Improving community involvement, communication, and the development of partnerships among differing stakeholders; and
- Equipping brownfields stakeholders to effectively address, be involved in, and integrate environmental justice and equitable development principles into brownfields activities.
Eligible Projects
- Eligible uses of grant funds include direct costs necessary to provide brownfields research and technical assistance identified in the approved workplan. This includes eligible programmatic costs necessary to perform the project, such as: costs for personnel, technical experts, materials, supplies, room rentals, travel, and transportation expenses for recipient personnel and program beneficiaries.
Eligibility Criteria
The following information indicates which entities are eligible to apply for this cooperative agreement:
- 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 as defined in Section 45D(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
- Other Nonprofit organizations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=344534