EPA Brownfields Cleanup Grants:
Interested in Applying for Funding?

Here's what you need to know...

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

Lakewood, Colorado

The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's
(EPA) Brownfields ana
Land Revitalization
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.

Lakewood, Colorado





A brownfield isdefined as: real property, the ex-
pansion, 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."

Brownfields Cleanup Grants provide funding for a recipient
to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites owned by
the applicant.

Funds may be used to address sites contaminated by
petroleum and/or hazardous substances, pollutants,
or contaminants (including hazardous substances
comingled with petroleum).

How Much Funding Is Available?

v An applicant may request funding to address
either a single brownfield site or multiple
brownfield sites within the same application.

v An applicant may request up to $500,000, or up to
$1 million, or up to $2 million.

v 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.
[Consistent with the direction on cost sharing in the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, cost sharing and matching
funds are not required under the FY 2023 Cleanup Grant
competition.]

Who Is Eligible To Apply For A
Cleanup Grant?

In order to receive a Cleanup Grant, the applicant must be
the sole owner of the property that is the subject of its
cleanup grant application by the time of application
submission. For the purposes of eligibility determinations
in the guidelines only, the term "own" generally means fee
simple title. A written American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) or equivalent Phase II environmental
site assessment must be underway or completed prior to
application submission.

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Who Is Eligible To Apply For A
Cleanup Grant?

Eligible entities include:

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