EPA Brownfields Multipurpose Grants:
Interested in Applying for Funding?

Here's what you need to know...

What Is EPA's Brownfields Program? What Are Multipurpose Grants?

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The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's
(EPA) Brownfields and
land Revitalization
I Program provides funds
to empower states,
Tribal Nations,
communities, and other stakeholders to work together
to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably
reuse brownfield sites, EPA provides financial and
technical assistance for brownfields activities protect
human health and the environment, encourage
sustainable reuse, promote partnerships, strengthen
local economies, and create jobs. By providing funds and
technical assistance to assess, cleanup, and plan for site
reuse, EPA enables communities to overcome the
environmental, legal, and
fiscal challenges
associated with
brownfield properties.

EPA's investments in
communities across the
country help local leaders
eliminate uncertainties, clean up contaminated properties,
and transform brownfield sites into community assets.





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."

Multipurpose Grants provide funding to carry outrange of
eligible assessment and cleanup activities with a proposed
target area, such as a neighborhood, a number of neighboring
towns, a district, a corridor, a shared planning area or a census
tract.

A Multipurpose Grant applicant should have a capacity to
conduct a range of eligible activities, for example:

v	Developing inventories of brownfield sites;

v	Prioritizing sites;

v	Conducting community involvement activities;

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Who Is Eligible To Apply For An MP
Grant?

Eligible entities include:

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