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Grant Announcements
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of Past Announcements by Fiscal Year
FY 2009 Information
- Communities in 46 states, four Tribes, and two U.S. Territories will share $111.9 million in EPA Brownfields grants
These communities will share $111.9 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. The grants include
$37.3 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that President Obama signed into law on February 17, 2009, and $74.6 million from the EPA brownfields general program funding. Since the beginning of the Brownfields Program, EPA has awarded 1450 assessment grants totaling $337.5 million, 242 revolving loan fund grants totaling
$233.5 million and 538 cleanup grants totaling $99 million.
- Fiscal Year 2009 Brownfields Job Training Grants Announcement
Thirteen communities in 12 states will share $2.6 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 Program is awarding grants of $200,000 each to non-profit organizations, workforce investment boards, and state and local governments. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in areas near brownfields sites in Ark., Calif., Conn., Ill., Ind., Md., Mass., Mich., N.J., Oreg., Tenn., and Wis. Find Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees.
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