Description
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking applications for Brownfield Cleanup Grants to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. The grant provides funding to carry out cleanup activities on brownfield sites owned by the applicant. The maximum amount of EPA funds that will be awarded under a Cleanup Grant is $500,000. The project period for Cleanup Grants is up to three years.
• The grant can be used for direct costs associated with the cleanup of a brownfield site, programmatic management of the grant, and other activities.
• Eligible applicants include general purpose units of local government, land clearance authorities, government entities created by state legislature, regional councils, redevelopment agencies, states, Indian tribes, and nonprofit organizations.
• The application must include a narrative information sheet, a narrative, and required attachments.
• The EPA will evaluate applications based on the extent to which the applicant demonstrates a vision for the cleanup, reuse, and redevelopment of brownfield sites, and a strategy for leveraging resources to help accomplish the vision.