Description
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking applications for Brownfield Assessment Grants to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. The grant provides funding for developing inventories of brownfield sites, prioritizing sites, conducting community involvement activities, conducting planning, conducting site assessments, developing site-specific cleanup plans, and developing reuse plans related to brownfield sites.
* Key aspects of the grant include:
* Eligible entities: states, communities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations
* Funding: up to $300,000 for Community-wide Assessment Grants, up to $200,000 for Site-specific Assessment Grants, and up to $600,000 for Assessment Coalition Grants
* Project period: up to three years
* Evaluation criteria: vision for the reuse and redevelopment of brownfield sites, community need and community engagement, task descriptions and cost estimates, and programmatic capability and past performance