EPA Brownfields Assessment Grants:
Interested in Applying for Funding?
Here's what you need to know...
What Is EPA's Brownfields Program ? What Are Assessment Grants ?
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's
(EPA) Brownfields
Program provides funds
to empower states,
communities, and other
stakeholders to work
together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and
sustainably reuse brownfields. EPA provides technical and
financial assistance for brownfields activities through an
approach based on four main goals: protecting human
health and the environment, sustaining reuse, promoting
partnerships, and strengthening the marketplace.
Brownfields grants serve as the foundation of the
Brownfields Program and support revitalization efforts by
funding environmental assessment, cleanup, and
environmental
workforce and job
training activities.
Thousands of
properties have been
assessed and cleaned
up through the
Brownfields Program, clearing the way for their reuse.
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A brownfield is defined as: real property, the
expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which
may be complicated by the presence or potential
presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or
contaminant. The Brownfields Law further
defines the term to include a site that is:
"contaminated by a controlled substance;
contaminated by petroleum or a petroleum
product excluded from the definition of
'hazardous substance'; or mine-scarred land."
Assessment Grants provide funding for a grant recipient to;
~	Inventory Sites: Compile a listing
v Characterize Sites: Identify past uses
~	Assess Sites: Determine existing contamination
v Conduct Planning Around One or More Brownfield:
Initiate site revitalization and prepare for site redevel-
opment
~	Conduct Site-specific Cleanup and Redevelopment
Planning: Scope and plan process
v Conduct Community involvement: inform and engage
community
What Types Of Assessment Grants Are
Available?
Community-Wide Grants:
/ Applicants may request up to $200,000, or up to $350,000
with a waiver request, to address hazardous substances
and/or petroleum contamination.
•/ Applicants will not be allowed to substitute another site
where the subject site is determined to be ineligible.
Assessment Coalition Grants:
/ Coalition members are not eligible to apply for
individual Community-wide or Site-specific Assessment
Grants in the year they apply as part of a coalition.
* The coalition may request up to $600,000 to work on a
minimum of five hazardous substances and/or
petroleum sites.

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Who Is Eligible To Apply For An
Assessment Grant?
Eligible entities include:
~	General Purpose Unit of Local Government.
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