EPA Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grants:
Interested in Applying for Funding?

Here's what you need to know...

What Is EPA's Brownfields Program?

The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA)
Brownfields and 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 environ-
mental, legal, and fiscal challenges associated with brownfield
properties. EPA's invest-
ments in communities across
the country help local leaders
eliminate uncertainties, clean
up contaminated properties,
and transform brownfield
sites into community assets.





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."

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.

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

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Who Is Eligible To Apply For An RLF
Grant?

Eligible entities include:

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