EPA Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grants:
Interested in Applying for Funding?
Here's what you need to know...
What Is EPA's Brownfields Program?
Colorado Coalition (before)
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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Colorado Coalition (after)


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."
What Are Revolving Loan Fund (RLF)
Grants?
~	Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants provide funding to a
grant recipient for capitalizing an RLF program.
v RLF programs provide loans and subgrants to eligible
entities to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield
sites contaminated with hazardous substances and/or
petroleum.
v An RLF Grant recipient must use 50 percent or more of
the awarded funds for loans.
w1 An RLF Grant recipient cannot make a loan or subgrant to
a party potentially liable for the contamination at the
brownfield site under CERCLA §107, nor may the RLF
grant recipient make a loan or subgrant to clean up a site
that it is potentially liable for under CERCLA §107.
How Much Funding Is Available?
Applicants may apply as an individual applicant or as a
an RLF Coalition (comprised of one lead member and
one or more partners).
~	An applicant/RLF Coalition may request up to $1 million
to address hazardous substances and/or petroleum
contamination.
v Coalition members may not be members of other RLF
Coalitions, nor submit an RLF application as an individual
applicant, in the same grant competition cycle.
~	RLF Grants require a 20 percent cost share, which may be
in the form of a contribution of money, labor, material,
or services, and must be for eligible and allowable costs.

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Who Is Eligible To Apply For An RLF
Grant?
Eligible entities include:
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