Recent Additions
This page contains links to documents that have recently been added to the Brownfields Web site. Please visit this page periodically to view the latest additions to this Web site.
- FY2010 Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup Grant Guidelines
These grants may be used to address sites contaminated by petroleum and hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum). Opportunities for funding are as follows: Brownfields Assessment Grants (each funded up to $200,000 over three years; coalitions are funded up to $1,000,000 over three years), Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years) and Brownfields Cleanup Grants (each funded up to $200,000 over three years). The proposal deadline is October 16, 2009.- Final FY2010 Brownfields Assessment Grant Guidelines (PDF) (45 pp, 273K)
- Final FY2010 Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grant Guidelines (PDF) (48 pp, 301K)
- Final FY2010 Brownfields Cleanup Grant Guidelines (PDF) (40 pp, 254K)
- Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) (39 pp, 215K)
- Supplemental Funding for Revolving Loan Fund Grants
Communities in 55 state or local governments will receive $55 million in supplemental funding for brownfields revolving loan fund grants to help communities carry out cleanup activities, redevelopment projects, and create jobs for local residents living near brownfields sites.- EPA Press Release
August 4, 2009 - List of RLF Grants funded by the Recovery Act and with regular program funds (PDF) (10 pp, 50K, about PDF)
- Brownfields Program Activities Under the Recovery Act
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
- EPA Press Release
- $6.8 Million in Recovery Act Funds for Brownfields Environmental Job Training
Fourteen communities in eight states will share $6.8 million in Brownfields Job Training Grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. These grants are funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under its Brownfields Program is awarding grants of up to $500,000 each to eligible governmental entities and non-profit organizations. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in areas near brownfields sites in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio, and Washington.- EPA Press Release
August 4, 2009 - Brownfields Program activities under the Recovery Act
- Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
- EPA Press Release
- 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.