FY16 Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants
The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (“Brownfields Law”, P.L.
107-118) requires the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance to assist applicants in preparing proposals for grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites.
EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofits to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites.
EPA provides brownfields funding for three types of grants:
1. Brownfields Assessment Grants – provides funds to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct planning (including cleanup planning) and community involvement related to brownfield sites.
2. Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants – provides funds for a grant recipient to capitalize a revolving fund and to make loans and provide subgrants to conduct cleanup activities at brownfield sites.
3. Brownfields Cleanup Grants – provides funds to conduct cleanup activities at a specific brownfield site owned by the applicant.Under these guidelines, EPA is seeking proposals for Assessment Grants only.
If you are interested in requesting funding for Cleanup and/or Revolving Loan Fund Grants, please refer to announcement EPA-OSWER-OBLR-15-06 (Cleanup Grant guidelines) or EPA-OSWER-OBLR-15-05 (Revolving Loan Fund Grant guidelines) posted separately on www.grants.gov and www 2. epa.gov/brownfields/apply-brownfields-grant-funding.
107-118) requires the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance to assist applicants in preparing proposals for grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites.
EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofits to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites.
EPA provides brownfields funding for three types of grants:
1. Brownfields Assessment Grants – provides funds to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct planning (including cleanup planning) and community involvement related to brownfield sites.
2. Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants – provides funds for a grant recipient to capitalize a revolving fund and to make loans and provide subgrants to conduct cleanup activities at brownfield sites.
3. Brownfields Cleanup Grants – provides funds to conduct cleanup activities at a specific brownfield site owned by the applicant.Under these guidelines, EPA is seeking proposals for Assessment Grants only.
If you are interested in requesting funding for Cleanup and/or Revolving Loan Fund Grants, please refer to announcement EPA-OSWER-OBLR-15-06 (Cleanup Grant guidelines) or EPA-OSWER-OBLR-15-05 (Revolving Loan Fund Grant guidelines) posted separately on www.grants.gov and www 2. epa.gov/brownfields/apply-brownfields-grant-funding.
Related Programs
Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements
Environmental Protection Agency
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
FY16 Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants
Additional Information of Eligibility:
Please see the announcement including Section III for additional eligibility information.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-10/documents/epa-oswer-oblr-15-04.pdf
Contact:
See Section VII of announcement
Agency Email Description:
See Section VII of announcement
Agency Email:
See Section VII of announcement
Date Posted:
2015-10-20
Application Due Date:
2015-12-18
Archive Date:
2016-01-17
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