Grant/Pilot Announcements

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Listing of Grant Announcements by Year

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FY 2008 Information

Communities in 43 states, 2 Tribal Nations and 2 territories will share over $74 million in EPA Brownfields grants.
These communities will share over $74 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. Since the beginning of the Brownfields program, EPA has awarded 1255 assessment grants totaling $298.6 million, 230 revolving loan fund grants totaling $217.7 million, and 426 cleanup grants totaling $78.7 million.
- EPA News Release
  April 7, 2008
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees

Fiscal Year 2008 Brownfields Job Training Grants Announcement.
Thirteen communities in 10 states will share more than $2.5 million in job training grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under its Brownfields Initiative, is awarding grants of up to $200,000 each to non-profit organizations, local governments, a university, and a tribe. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in low-income areas near brownfields sites in Ala., Calif., La., Mass., N.C., Nev., N.Y., Okla., Pa., and Wash.
- EPA News Release
  March 6, 2008
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees

FY 2007 Information

Communities in 38 states, 5 Tribal Nations and 2 territories will share $70.7 million in EPA Brownfields grants.
These communities will share $70.7 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. Since the beginning of the Brownfields program, EPA has awarded 1067 assessment grants totaling $262 million, 217 revolving loan fund grants totaling $201.7 million, and 336 cleanup grants totaling $61.3 million.
- EPA News Release
  May 14, 2007
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees

Communities in Ten States Share $2.34 Million in Brownfields Job Training Grants
On November 13, 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency announced the selection of 12 communities to share a total of $2.34 million in brownfields job training grants. Grants of up to $200,000 each will go to non-profit organizations and local governments. This new round of Brownfields Job Training Grants will teach environmental-cleanup job skills to individuals living in low income areas near brownfields sites in 10 states.
- EPA News Release
  November 13, 2006
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees. (Note that these are the 2007 Brownfields Job Training Grants, as the grants are awarded in fiscal year 2007.)

FY 2006 Information

Communities in 44 States, 2 Territories and 3 Tribal Nations Share $69.9 Million in Brownfields Grants
These communities will share $69.9 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. Since the beginning of the Brownfields program, EPA has awarded 883 assessment grants totaling $225.4 million, 202 revolving loan fund grants totaling $186.7 million, and 238 cleanup grants totaling $42.7 million.
- EPA News Release
  May 12, 2006
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
$2 Million in Brownfields Job Training Grants Announced
The EPA today announced the selection of twelve communities to share a total of $2 million in brownfields job training grants. Grants of up to $200,000 each will go to non-profit organizations, educational institutions, community colleges, tribes, and state and local governments. This new round of Brownfields Job Training Grants will teach environmental-cleanup job skills to individuals living in low income areas near Brownfields sites in 11 states (Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virginia).
- EPA News Release
  December 22, 2005
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees

FY 2005 Information

$76.7 Million in Brownfield Grants Announced
Communities in 44 states will share more than $76 million in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, transforming them from problem properties into community assets. "The Brownfields Program puts both property and people back to work," EPA Administrator Steve Johnson said. "These grants will help communities across America convert eyesores into engines of economic rebirth."
- EPA News Release
  May 10, 2005
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
Six Brownfields Training, Research and Technical Assistance Grants Announced Totaling $1.4 Million.
EPA's Office of Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment names six organizations as recipients of a combined $1.4 million in Brownfields Training, Research and Technical Assistance Grants. The grants announced provide research, training and technical assistance to enable communities to stimulate economic and beneficial uses of brownfields. Funding for the brownfields training, research, and technical assistance grants and cooperative agreements is authorized under §104(k)(6) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, (CERCLA or Superfund), 42 U.S.C. 9604(k)(6).
- Press Advisory

FY 2004 Information

42 States, Puerto Rico, Five Tribes Share Record $75.4 Millon in Brownfields Grants
Communities in 42 states and Puerto Rico will share more than $75 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. The grants were announced today by EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt at the site of a former metal foundry in Milwaukee.
- EPA News Release
  June 15, 2004
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
Over 1,000 to be Trained for Environmental Jobs in Brownfields Communities Nationwide
In its ongoing efforts to promote economic revitalization and safeguard the environment and public health, EPA announced the awarding of its second round of Brownfields Job Training Grants under the new Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002. The second round of grants include EPA's selection of 16 recipients for funded Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Grants totaling $2.47 Million.
- EPA News Release
  March 31, 2004
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
  
  More information about Brownfields Job Training Grants

FY 2003 Information

EPA ANNOUNCES $73.1 MILLION IN NATIONAL BROWNFIELDS GRANTS IN 37 STATES AND SEVEN TRIBAL COMMUNITIES
As part of EPA's ongoing efforts to promote economic revitalization while safeguarding the environment and public health, EPA Administrator Christie Whitman today announced $73.1 million in Brownfields funds for a variety of different grants made available from the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act.
- EPA News Release
  June 20, 2003
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
EPA Awards $2 Million to Seven States for New Brownfields Job Training Grants in Ten Communities
In its ongoing efforts to promote economic revitalization and safeguard the environment and public health, EPA Administrator Christie Whitman today announced the awarding of its first Brownfields Job Training grants under the new Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002.
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
- EPA Press Advisory
  May 2003

FY 2002 Information

BROWNFIELDS COMMUNITIES GET $675,000 IN SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR JOB TRAINING
EPA has selected 11 supplemental pilot grants totaling $675,000 under the Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots. These are the second round of supplemental Brownfields job training pilot grants to be awarded (the first round was in May). In communities impacted by Brownfields, project officials will use the supplemental funding to continue their efforts to train residents in procedures for the handling and removal of hazardous substances.
- EPA Press Advisory
  September 11, 2002
- List of Supplemental Job Training Awards
  September 11, 2002
EPA ADMINISTRATOR WHITMAN ANNOUNCES $14.6 MILLION IN GRANTS TO HELP 80 COMMUNITIES REVITALIZE ABANDONED PROPERTIES
EPA Administrator Christie Whitman recently announced $14.6 million in Brownfields grants to assess the contamination of abandoned properties in 80 communities around the nation. Since its inception, EPA's Brownfields Program has contributed over $280 million in pilots and grants to spur assessment, cleanup and redevelopment at brownfields sites.
- EPA News Release
  May 20, 2002
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Pilot Awardees
- List of Supplemental Pilot Awards with Grant Amounts (PDF) (21K, 2 Pages)
EPA ADMINISTRATOR WHITMAN ANNOUNCES $21.5 MILLION TO REVITALIZE BLIGHTED COMMUNITIES IN 17 STATES
- EPA News Release
  May 3, 2002
- List and links to fact sheets on these pilots
  - Fact Sheets for Brownfields Pilot Awardees
    May 3, 2002

FY 2001 Information

FIVE RCRA BROWNFIELDS PREVENTION PILOTS CHOSEN
- EPA Press Advisory
  August 30, 2001
- RCRA Brownfileds Prevention Pilots Fact Sheet
  [HTML (18K) | PDF (297K) 5 Pages ]
  August 2001
For more information, visit the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Brownfields Initiative page.
EPA ADMINISTRATOR WHITMAN ANNOUNCES $38 MILLION TO MAKE ABANDONED PROPERTIES THRIVE
- EPA Press Release
  April 20, 2001
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Pilot Awardees
  April 2001

List of 32 Supplemental Funding Awards for Existing Assessment Demonstration Pilots Announced
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Pilot Awardees
  April 2001

List of 25 New US EPA Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilots Announced
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Pilot Awardees
  April 2001
For more information, visit the Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilots page.

EPA announces nine new Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots
- Press Release
  December 21, 2000

FY 2000 Information

Fact Sheets for Brownfields Pilot Awardees
Clarification of Borrower Eligibility Under the Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Program - Timothy Fields, Jr.
- Memorandum
  [ HTML (4K)| PDF (9K) 2 Pages ]
  September 5, 2000
Clarification of Site Manager (On-scene coordinator) Role, "Lending to Yourself," and Obligation Requirements Under the Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Program - Linda Garczynski
- Memorandum
  [ HTML (14K) | PDF (35K) 4 Pages ]
  July 7, 2000

Vice President Gore Announces Over $35 Million In Brownfields Grants To Revitalize Contaminated Properties
- White House Press Release
  May 18, 2000
- White House Press Fact Sheet
  May 18, 2000
Vice President Gore Announces Awards to Communities Receiving Supplemental Assistance for Assessment Demonstration Pilots.
- White House Press Release
  April 12, 2000
EPA Presents Philadelphia $150,000 for Brownfields
EPA Region 3 Press Release
April 11, 2000

EPA Awards $200,000 Grant For Stockton Waterfront Renewal Project; Section Of Stockton Channel Hidden For 50 Years Will Soon Emerge
EPA Region 9 Press Release
April 11, 2000

Resource Conservation and Recovery ACT (RCRA) Pilots Four Brownfields Prevention Initiative Pilots Chosen
Press Advisory
March 16, 2000
RCRA/Brownfields Prevention Pilots Fact Sheet
[ HTML (13K) | PDF (15K) 2 pages]
Publication Number: EPA 500-F-00-058
March 2000

FY 1999 Information

Fact Sheets for Brownfields Pilot Awardees
Vice President Gore Announces $11 Million to Cleanup and Redevelop Distressed Areas
- White House Press Release
  June 21, 1999
Vice President Gore Announces Over $30 Million to Help Communities Clean Up and Redevelop Brownfields: Also Awards $1.9 Million in Job Training Grants. White House Press Release

Vice President Gore Announces 23 Assessment Demonstration Pilots
White House Press Release
March 12, 1999

FY 1998 Information

Fact Sheets for Brownfields Pilot Awardees
EPA Announces 11 Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots
- Press Advisory
  August 14, 1998
Vice President Gore Announces 71 New Brownfields Redevelopment Grants.
White House Press Release
July 15, 1998
EPA Announces 36 New Brownfields Redevelopment Grants
Press Release
May 6, 1998

FY 1997 Information

Fact Sheets for Brownfields Pilot Awardees

Brownfields Pilots National Workshop, February 13-14, 1996.
Fact Sheet
Publication Number: EPA 500-F-97-096
[ HTML (13K) | PDF (19K) 4 Pages]
April 1997
Vice President Al Gore Announces 35 New Brownfields National and Regional Pilots
White House Press Release
May 13, 1997
EPA Announces Two New Brownfields Pilots in Wisconsin
Press Release
February 14th, 1997

FY 1996 Information

Fact Sheets for Brownfields Pilot Awardees
Vice President Hails Progress in Urban Revitalization and Announces 20 New Projects to Redevelop Brownfields
Press Release
June 13, 1996
Clinton Administration Announces Selection of 11 New Brownfields Redevelopment Projects and Announces the Removal of 3,300 Sites from the Superfund Inventory
White House Press Release
January 25, 1996

FY 1995 information

Fact Sheets for Brownfields Pilot Awardees
Clinton Administration Announces Selection of 15 Cities as Brownfields Redevelopment Projects, July 26, 1995
White House Press Release
July 26, 1995
EPA Administrator Announces Relief Package for Cities and Towns
Press Release
January 25, 1995

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