YEAR ONE
ANNIVERSARY REPORT
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
November 2022
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Table of Contents
Administrator's Message 3
Introduction 4
Financial Summary 5
Build America, Buy America Act 7
Advancing Environmental Justice and Civil Rights 8
Clean School Bus Program 10
Water Infrastructure Investments 12
Restoring and Protecting Treasured Waters 15
Superfund 17
Brownfields 19
Recycling and Waste Management 21
Pollution Prevention Grants 22
Appendix 24
EPA's BIL Funding Allocations 24
White House BIL Maps Dashboard 25
EPA PUBLICATION NUMBER: 190R22005
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Administrator's Message
One year ago, Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)a once-in-
a-generation investment in the future of our country. Historic funding from BIL will
create millions of jobs, modernize our Nation's infrastructure, combat the climate
crisis, and put us on a path to winning the 21st century. I'm incredibly proud of all
that we've been able to accomplish over the past year.Thanks to BIL, EPA is putting
billions of dollars to work to fulfill our mission of protecting public health and the
environment, while prioritizing overburdened communities who unjustly bear the
burdens of environmental harm and pollution.
Creating a future in which all people have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink,
and the opportunity to lead a healthy life is central to all of our work at EPA, and
unprecedented funding from BIL will allow us to progress further and faster than
ever before. Shortly after the BIL was signed, I embarked on the first leg of our
Journey to Justice tour to shine a spotlight on the longstanding environmental justice concerns that have
plagued marginalized communities for decades. I traveled across the southern United States and met with
community members in their churches and on their front porches. We saw firsthand the degree of injustice
folks have to live with every day, and immediately committed to delivering long overdue protections to these
communities.
President Biden understands how critical it is to ensure BIL funding reaches the communities who need
it the most, and that's why this Administration established Justice40. At least 40 percent of EPA's funding
from BIL will go directly to underserved communities. Many of these communities will need help applying
for and securing these funds, so EPA launched the most robust technical assistance program in our history.
Universities, nonprofit organizations, and tribal governments will have access to federal grants to set up
Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers in each of our regional office areas. The Centers will help
ensure federal resources are equitably distributed and meet urgent on-the-ground environmental justice
challenges.
In addition to delivering on environmental justice concerns, over the last year, EPA has laid the groundwork
for many large-scale cleanup and environmental restoration activities. Extensive outreach and dialogue with
our tribal, state, and community partners have meant we can build programs that best meet their unique
needs. For example, by September 30, 2022, EPA obligated BIL funds for cleanup activities at more than 100
Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) sites some of the most polluted sites in the country. At the same
time, EPA will continue work with our large partner networks to restore national treasures like the Chesapeake
Bay, the Great Lakes, and other geographically focused program areas.
We have so much to celebrate and I'm so proud of what we've accomplished so far. I look forward to continuing
our work and sharing more about how EPA is leveraging BIL funding to advance our mission and support
communities across the country. You can learn more and track our progress by visiting our BIL website,
epa.aov/infrastructure. While we have our work cut out for us, the future ahead is bright, and we will keep
moving toward a cleaner, healthier future for all.
Thankyou.
Michael S. Regan
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Introduction
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law represents the largest appropriation EPA has ever received. This is an
exciting moment for the Agency to expand from its historic role as a regulatory and scientific agency to be
a large-scale funder of critical infrastructure. The BIL more than doubles the Agency's annual budget each
year over the next five years to fund water infrastructure, environmental cleanups, and electric school
buses. It also provides funding to improve recycling programs, and prevent pollution. Implementing this
legislation is a major endeavor and the Agency has risen to the occasion.
Most of the funding in this legislation is being implemented through existing programs such as the State
Revolving Funds in the Office of Water and the Superfund Program in the Office of Land and Emergency
Management. We have benefited tremendously from the dedicated career staff with many years of
experience running these critical programs who moved quickly and efficiently to implement the funding.
This has also been an opportunity for us to welcome the next generation of EPA employees; hundreds
of new team members have joined the Agency in the first year to focus on implementing the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law.
We have also collaborated successfully with our state, local, tribai, and nonprofit partners across our
initiatives - from water infrastructure to environmental cleanups, electric school buses to recycling
education and pollution prevention, we have made incredible progress to date and our work to make the
most of this opportunity is well underway.
This report is intended to share our progress with Congress, intergovernmental partners, and the public. It
provides implementation updates forthe Build America, Buy America Act; environmental justice; and each
of our programs. We hope it helps you understand where we are a year into this exciting journey so that
we can continue to work together collaboratively in the years to come.
Our BIL website, epa.aov/infrastructure, allows you to follow our progress and mark our next steps.
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Financial Summary
The BIL provides EPA over $60 billion for a wide range of programs to be made available over five fiscal
years from FY 2022 through 2026:
$14.1 billion in FY 2022
$11.2 billion in FY 2023
$11.6 billion in FY 2024
$12.0 billion in FY 2025
$12.0 billion in FY 2026.
Of the $60 billion investment:
More than $50 billion are for clean water and drinking water projects along with other water
protection programs, the single largest federal investment in clean water ever made. With these
funds, EPA will make progress on President Biden's pledge to replace within the decade the 6 to 10
million lead service lines still in the ground across the country, address the threat of PFAS pollution
facing communities, and broaden efforts to protect critical water bodies that are important to
communities and the economy.
More than $5 billion are for cleaning up longstanding pollution at Superfund and Brownfields
sites, and for improving waste management and recycling systems managed under the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to restore the economic vitality of communities that have
been exposed to pollution for far too long. Additionally, the BIL statute reinstated and modified the
Superfund chemical excise taxes. Funds collected through this tax will be available for EPA to use
during the fiscal year after they are collected. As of September 30, 2022, the U.S. Treasury collected
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$413 million of these taxes, which EPA can apply towards Superfund cleanups in FY 2023. These
funds are in addition to the $3.5 billion appropriated for Superfund cleanups in BIL.
$5 billion are for decarbonizing the nation's school bus fleet, improving air quality for more than
25 million children who ride the bus to school each day.
$100 million are for the Pollution Prevention Program to increase access to safer and more
sustainable products and services. A new grant opportunity will focus on delivering environmental
justice by leveraging Safer Choice and Environmentally Preferable Purchasing as tools to increase
assistance to businesses serving the needs of institutions and consumers in disadvantaged
communities.
Of the $14.1 billion available to the Agency in FY 2022, EPA announced that $8.7 billion would go to
these programs for certain states, tribes, or territories. Of the announced dollars, $5.5 billion have been
awarded through a grant, contract, or interagency agreement, or used by the Agency towards program
implementation.
As of October 1,2022, EPA has made BIL funds available in 55 states and territories.
EPA recognizes that with this historic funding from BIL, the Agency's fiduciary responsibilities are critical
to ensuring the monies are spent appropriately. We continue to work closely with our Inspector General's
Office to mitigate risk for waste, fraud, and abuse.
BIL FY 2022 Appropriations & Obligations as of November 1,2022
Dollars In Millions
BIL Major Category (1)
FY 2022 BIL
Appropriations
(2)
Obligations
(Funds Awarded)
as of Nov 1,2022
OW State Revolving Funds
$7,671.2
$4,036.4
OW Contaminant & UIC Grants
$1,044.8
$1.4
Geographic and Related Water Programs
$384.9
$206.6
Superfund
$3,482.5
$1,036.5
Brownfields
$298.5
$190.1
Recycling and RCRA Grants
$94.5
$1.2
Clean School Bus Program
$995.0
$917.6
Pollution Prevention Grants
$19.9
$11.5
Inspector General
$64.6
$2.0
Totals
$14,055.8
$6,403.4
(1) Detailed spending by BIL line item is available in appendix.
(2) Total Appropriated = Amount appropriated less IG funds that are shown as a separate line item.
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Build America, Buy America Act
Congress passed the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA) concurrently with the Bipartisan Infrastructure
Law in November 2021. BABA represents a transformational opportunity to build a resilient supply chain
and manufacturing base for critical products in the United States that will catalyze new and long-term
investments in good-paying American manufacturing jobs and businesses. Investing in Made in America
products will position the United States to compete and lead in global markets in the 21st century.
EPA has a longstanding commitment to Made in America and has actively partnered with industry to
ensure the use of domestically sourced iron, steel, manufactured products, and construction materials
in many of our infrastructure projects. BABA expands the scope of covered programs and products while
BIL increases the Agency's overall amount of infrastructure investment. Importantly, BABA applies to all
federal financial assistance for infrastructure, not just those programs authorized through BIL, and it has no
expiration date. EPA is well-positioned to implement BABA, having managed one of the most sophisticated
federal domestic preference programs for manufacturing, administering the American Iron and Steel (AIS)
program for the State Revolving Fund (SRF) and Water infrastructure Finance and innovation Act (WIFIA)
programs since 2014.
EPA is engaged with the White House Office of Management and Budget's Made in America Office and
is partnering with other federal infrastructure agencies to ensure there is a consistent and streamlined
federal approach to conducting market research and engaging industry and partners. As EPA works to
ensure that ali recipients of BIL funding adapt to the new legislation, the measure of success for EPA and
ourfederal partners is to effectively balance the investment in America's infrastructure with maximizing the
use of domestically made goods. For example, under BIL, the Brownfields, Superfund, and multiple water
infrastructure programs are ramping up domestic sourcing capabilities. The Clean School Bus program is
also supporting domestic sourcing for charging equipment for electric school buses.
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ADVANCING
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Advancing Environmental Justice and Civil Rights
On September 24,2022, Administrator Regan announced the establishment of the Office of Environmental
Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR), a new national program office charged with advancing
environmental justice and civil rights compliance. EPA created OEJECR by merging three existing programs
at the Agency: the Office of Environmental Justice, the External Civil Rights Compliance Office, and the
Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center.The new office will:
Improve and enhance the agency's ability to infuse equity, civil rights, and environmental justice
principles and priorities into all EPA practices, policies, and programs.
Supportthefairtreatmentand meaningful involvement ofall people with respecttothedevelopment,
implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies regardless of
race, coior, national origin, or income.
Engage communities with environmental justice concerns and increase support for community-led
action through grants and technical assistance.
Enforce federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national
origin (including on the basis of limited-English proficiency); sex; disability; or age by applicants for
and recipients of federal financial assistance from EPA.
Provide services and expertise in alternative dispute resolution, environmental conflict resolution,
consensus-building, and collaborative problem solving.
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OEJECR's offices have been working in close collaboration with the national program offices implementing
BIL funding to ensure the consideration of environ mental justice in existing programs and the development
of the new BIL-funded programs. Thanks to the Agency's strong shared commitment to this mission, EPA
is well underway to meet and exceed the goals of the Justice40 initiative.
Some successes from the first year of BIL implementation include:
Every financial assistance program funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has developed
a strategy to ensure at least 40 percent of the funding flows to disadvantaged communities.
School districts identified as priority areas serving low-income, rural, and, or Tribal students make up
99% of the projects that were selected.
BIL requires that 49 percent: of general base and lead service line replacement and 100 percent of
emerging contaminants State Revolving Funds be awarded to disadvantaged communities under
the affordability criteria as grants or forgivable loans. To meet this requirement and direct funds
where they are needed most, 22 states have updated, or indicated plans to update their definitions
of disadvantaged communities.
Over 60 percent of the Superfund sites that received BIL funding are located within communities
with environmental justice concerns.
Approximately 71 percent of the Brownfields funds awarded in the first year will go to recipients with
proposed projects in historically underserved areas.
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Clean School Bus Program
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $5 billion over five years (FY 2022-26) for the replacement
of existing diesel school buses with low and zero-emission buses through new Clean School Bus (CSB)
rebates and competitive grants, open to all communities, including tribal nations, Alaska Native Villages,
and communities in the US Territories. School buses travel over four billion miles each year, providing
the safest transportation to and from school for more than 25 million American children. However, diesel
exhaust from school buses is high in particulate matter and nitrogen oxides (NOx), contributes to poor air
quality, and can disproportionately affect the health of children whose lungs are not yet fully developed
and who have faster breathing rates than adults. School bus upgrades funded under this program will
therefore result in cleaner air on the bus, in bus loading areas, and in the communities in which they
operate.
In October 2022, EPA awarded nearly $1 biilion to 389 school districts spanning 50 states, Washington, DC,
and several tribes and U.S. territories.The grants will help school districts purchase over 2,400 clean school
buses that will accelerate the transition to zero emission vehicles and produce cleaner air in and around
schools and communities.
The 2022 Clean School Bus Rebate Competition used a lottery system to make awards to eligible recipients.
As part of this design, the program gave priority to school districts in low-income, rural, and tribal
communities. Getting cleaner buses to schools provides benefits to students, teachers, parents and
drivers that can experience higher levels of asthma and other health problems from bus emissions. The
vast majority of applicants met the priority definition under the 2022 Clean School Bus Rebates criteria,
resulting in access to more funds for buses and electric vehicle infrastructure for schools in areas that need
them the most.
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Expected Results Year 2:
During year two, a new CSB
competitive grant program as well as
another round of rebate funding will
be established to provide significant
additional funding to help transition
the nation's school bus fleet to
cleaner vehicles. EPA plans to award
$1 billion in Fiscal Year 2023.
For more information, visit our
Clean School Bus website, epa.gov/
cleanschoolbus.
EPA launched the first CSB funding opportunity in May 2022. For this first funding
opportunity, the program initially made available $500 million to applicants for
rebates. The rebate application period closed on August 19th with tremendous
response from school districts seeking to purchase electric and low-emission school
buses across the country. EPA received around 2,000 applications requesting nearly
$4 billion for over 12,000 buses. More than 90 percent of buses requested were for
zero-emission electric buses, almost 1 percent were for cleaner compressed natural
gas (CNG) buses, and about 9 percent were for cleaner propane buses. Due to the
high level of interest in the program, EPA increased the amount of funding to $965M
worth of school bus replacements to help meet the nationwide demand.
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Water Infrastructure Investments
Too many communities in the United States still live without basic water infrastructure including safe
and reliable drinking water and wastewater systems. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law created a historic
opportunity to invest in communities and leverage existing federal infrastructure programs to address
water infrastructure needs in underserved communities across America. Specifically, BIL delivers more
than $50 billion to EPA to improve our nation's water the single largest inestment in water resources
and infrastructure that the Federal government has ever made. BIL investments will improve the resiliency
of the nation's drinking, waste, and storm water infrastructure for generations to come,Through upgrades
and relocation projects, the nation's water infrastructure will be better protected from extreme weather
events driven by climate change.
The majority of the BIL water infrastructure funds ($43 billion) will be distributed to states through
State Revolving Fund (SRF) capitalization grants, a federal-state partnership that provides communities
with low-cost financing for a wide range of water infrastructure projects from sewage systems to
drinking water. This includes water infrastructure projects for climate adaptation and mitigation, green
infrastructure, treatment for emerging contaminants, and reduction of lead in drinking water. Nearly half
of the funding is intentionally structured through grants and principal forgiveness programs to
provide a pathway for underserved communities that might not otherwise be able to access traditional
loans to address their water infrastructure needs. In FY 2022, EPA awarded $4 billion to states, tribes,
territories, and the District of Columbia in capitalization grants under the 5 BIL-funded SRF programs.1
FY 2022-2025 funding will continue to be awarded on a rolling basis as states develop a pipeline of projects
and prepare Intended Use Plans.
1 There are five State Revolving Fund (SRF) BIL programs: Clean Water SRF, Drinking Water SRF, Clean Water SRF emerging contaminants, Drinking
Water SRF emerging contaminants, and lead service line replacement.
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President Biden has pledged 100% replacement of lead drinking water service lines in the next decade.The
BIL funding for the SRF program includes a historic $15 billion investment specifically for the replacement
of lead drinking water service lines and associated activities such as identification and inventory of the lead
lines.2 Lead is particularly hazardous to the health of children and infants as it is a known developmental
neurotoxin that interferes with brain development. There is no safe levei of lead exposure for children.
In FY 2022, the first 20 state capitalization grants were awarded for lead service line identification and
replacement. This is expected to fund roughly 300 projects, with nearly half of the funding flowing to
disadvantaged communities.
During the first year of BIL, EPA also created a new $5 billion non-competitive grant program for small
or disadvantaged communities to address emerging contaminants, including per and polyfluoroalkyl
substances (PFAS), in drinking water systems. These contaminants pose multiple human health risks, such
as certain cancers. As part of a government-wide effort to confront PFAS pollution, EPA made $1 billion in
BIL grant funding available in FY 2022 to help communities facing disproportionate impacts of emerging
contaminants, including PFAS, in their drinking water systems. For example, BIL funding could be used to
develop new/alternative drinking water sources, install treatment technologies to remove or reduce PFAS
contamination, or improve source water protection, among other cleanup and protection activities. The
Emerging Contaminants Grant Program will help small or disadvantaged communities test for, monitor,
and remediate PFAS and other emerging contaminants in their drinking water supplies. In August 2022,
55 states and territories submitted letters of intent to participate in the program, which will allow funds to
be awarded next year.
To help communities better access BIL funding for water infrastructure, EPA has launched several technical
assistance programs. For example, EPA launched a new pilot initiative in partnership with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) called Closing America's Wastewater Access Gap to provide technical
assistance to 11 rural communities with significant decentralized wastewater challenges.The initiative will
help participating communities assess their wastewater needs, identify potential wastewater solutions,
and then pursue federal funding opportunities. EPA is also launching technical assistance efforts like the
H20 Community SolutionsTeams initiative and the Lead Service Line Replacement Accelerators initiative,
2 Fact sheet:The Biden-Harris Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan
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which will bring together technical and community engagement experts to partner with underserved
communities to access BIL funding for water investments.
Expected Results Year 2:
Looking ahead to year two of BIL SRF implementation, EPA expects all states and territories to have
successfully received SRF BIL capitalization grants. EPA expects construction to have begun on many
projects included in Intended Use Plans and planning to be underway for many more.The first BIL funded
lead service line inventories and replacements should be completed. EPA expects that the majority of
states will continue to apply for BIL SRF grant funding over the next five funding years.
EPA announced, in partnership with USDA, the Closing America's Wastewater Access Gap (July
2022) - As part of EPA's larger BIL technical assistance efforts, this initiative will commence work in
11 areas across the country, including Lowndes County, AL, that face systemic inequities in access
to wastewater and sanitation services.This, and other technical assistance programs totaling over
$100 million in 2022 alone, will ensure that more underserved communities can benefit equitably
from BIL investments.
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Restoring and Protecting Treasured Waters
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law delivers nearly $2 billion to EPA over 5 years (FY 2022-26) to expand
and accelerate the impacts of important place-based programs that EPA administers across the United
States. From the Agency's 12 Geographic Programs to our 28 National Estuary Programs (NEPs) to the Gulf
Hypoxia Program, the additional funds that BIL provides will play an essential role in efforts to protect and
restore coastlines, rivers, wetlands, and the ecosystems and communities that call them home. As EPA
implements each of these programs, it is working with states and other partners to ensure these resources,
and their benefits, are shared equitably. Furthermore, EPA is working to leverage these investments to
ensure that vulnerable communities and ecosystems in these regions build their adaptive capacity to the
impacts of climate change.
Through the Geographic Program, EPA will support disadvantaged communities, including by waiving
certain non-federal cost-share requirements, and by developing equity strategies for each program that
will help target the benefits of resources to communities most in need. Examples of BIL Geographic
Program implementation progress in 2022 include:
President Biden and Administrator Regan joined leaders from across the Great Lakes and announced
that the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative would deploy nearly $1 billion in BiLfunding to accelerate the
cleanup of Congressionally designated Areas of Concern (AOCs). Asa result, communities throughout
the Great Lakes region should see the acceleration of significant environmental, economic, health,
and recreational benefits. EPA projects that BIL funding will play a key role to complete work across
22 of the 25 remaining AOCs by 2030.
The Puget Sound Program announced up to $50 million in BiLfunding over five years (FY 2022-26) to
support tribal environmental restoration and protection projects with 19 Federally recognized tribes.
The Chesapeake Bay Program announced $40 million in BIL funds to states and local stakeholders
to reduce nutrients, protect small watersheds, and increase ecosystem and community resilience to
climate change.
The Long Island Sound Study announced a new program, funded with up to $3 million in BIL
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funds annually, to provide technical and financial assistance to integrate environmental justice
considerations within ecosystem protection and related projects.
In July 2022, Administrator Regan joined other federal and local officials on his Journey to Justice tour at the
San Juan, Puerto Rico Estuary Program to
announce Agency plans to prioritize projects
that benefit disadvantaged communities
and that build ecosystem and community
resilience to climate change, including
through funding nature-based and green
infrastructure projects and planning. Most
of the 28 estuary programs have applied
for their FY 2022 funds and can expect to
receive and start deploying these resources
by the end of 2022. To further support the
NEPs in deploying these resources to benefit
disadvantaged communities, EPA is waiving
certain cost-sharing requirements for BIL
grants.
EPA's Gulf Hypoxia Program will receive more
than $60 million in BIL resources over five
years (FY 2022-26) to support states, tribes,
and other partners to implement projects
to achieve the goals of the Gulf of Mexico
Hypoxia Taskforce. The Taskforce works to
reduce nutrient pollution into the Mississippi River Basin with a goal of reducing the size of the hypoxic,
or "dead" zone in the Gulf of Mexico, which threatens the vitality of aquatic life and the fisheries and
communities that depend on it. In June 2022, EPA launched a strategy for distributing nearly $50 million
to states over 5 years. All 12 of the Hypoxia Taskforce states have submitted multi-year workplans for these
resources and will be breaking ground on projects throughout the next year. Projects will range from
support to farmers for innovative nutrient reduction projects to optimization of wastewater treatment
facilities and more.
"The Great Lakes are a vital economic engine and an irreplaceable environmental wonder,
supplying drinking water for more than 40 million people, supporting more than 1.3 million
jobs, and sustaining life for thousands of species. Through the investments from President
Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we will make unprecedented progress in our efforts to
restore and protect the waters and the communities of the Great Lakes basin."
- EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan
Expected Results Year 2:
In year 2, EPA's place-based programs expect to deploy nearly all FY 2022 and FY 2023 BIL resources to
support state and local projects and initiatives, consistent with funding agreements issued in FY 2022 and
early FY 2023. Additionally, in FY 2023 each of the 40 Geographic and Estuary Programs will submit equity
strategies that will help guide each program's work in ensuring that disadvantaged, underserved, and
tribal communities are represented and benefit equitably from BIL resources.
On February 17, 2022, President Biden and Administrator
Regan visited Lorain, Ohio to announce the investment
of $1 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This
historic investment accelerates cleanup efforts and focuses
on restoration of nearly two dozen environmentally
degraded sites along the Great Lakes region.
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Thehistoricfunding boostfrom BIL invests $3.5 billion
in the Superfund Remedial Program to eliminate
the backlog of unfunded construction projects and
expedite cleanup of ongoing remedial projects. In
addition, BIL reinstated and modified Superfund
chemical excise taxes from July 1, 2022, through
December 31, 2031. As of September 30, 2022, the
US Treasury collected a total of $413 million which
will be available for EPA to use in FY 2023 for work as authorized by the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund).
These cleanup projects wili address legacy pollution harming public health in communities across the
country. With this funding, communities living near many of the most seriously contaminated sites on the
National Priorities List (NPL) will finally get the protections they deserve.
No community should have contamination near where they live, learn, work, and play. Yet, more than one
in four Black and Hispanic Americans live within three miles of a Superfund site. In almost every year since
2000, EPA's Superfund appropriation had been insufficient to support the initiation of all Superfund site
construction projects ready to begin cleanup work. The first wave of BIL funding finally allowed EPA to
As of the end of fiscal year 2022, BIL funds have
been obligated for new start construction projects
at 44 of the 49 National Priorities List (NPL) sites
identified in December 2021 to receive BIL funds for
new construction work.
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EPA obligated more than $1 billion in BIL funds for
work across more than 100 sites. Of those, over 70
NPL sites in historically underserved communities
received BIL funding totaling over $760 million.
approve the initiation of work at all 49 Superfund
sites with backiogged remedial construction
projects in 24 states and territories and obligate
funding at 44 of these sites in fiscal year 2022.
Approximately 60 percent of these 49 Superfund
sites are in historically underserved communities.
Additionally, the first wave allowed EPA to
accelerate cleanups at dozens of other sites across
the country.3 Approximately 60 percent of these
49 Superfund sites are in historically underserved
communities.
At the Eighteen Mile Creek Superfund site in
Lockport, New York, BIL funds will be used to
excavate and dispose of lead and PCB contaminated
sediment within the Creek Corridor. Cleaning up
contaminated sediments in the creek will prevent
possible re-contamination of adjacent floodplains, ensuring the remedy remains resilient to the impacts
of climate change. BIL funds will also be used to excavate lead contaminated soil at residential properties.
At the Jacobs Smelter site in Stockton, Utah, BIL funds are being used to remove approximately 70,000
tons of lead and arsenic contaminated surface and subsurface soils at the Waterman Smelter area of the
site. Through this action, EPA and the State of Utah will advance efforts to reduce exposure to lead by
addressing a continuing lead exposure pathway for recreational users of this area.
Figure: NPL sites where BIL funds have been obligated as of the end of fiscal
year 2022.
There were 14 NPL sites with Native
American interest receiving BIL funding
totaling almost $240 million. (Native
American Interest indicates that one or
more Indian tribe is directly or indirectly
affected by a potential or known release at
that site.)
Expected Results Year 2:
With FY 2023 BIL funds, EPA will continue to fund ongoing construction projects. NPL sites with new
construction projects ready to be started in FY 2023 will be announced January 2023.
With the funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,
communities overburdened by environmental pollutants will
finally get the protections they deserve. At the American
Creosote Works, Inc. (Pensacola Plant) site in Pensacola,
Florida, the community around the site has been waiting and
advocating for the funding to complete the cleanup for years. BIL
funds will allow EPA to complete the final piece of the decades-
long cleanup, which includes excavation of dioxin contaminated
soil from residential properties and cleaning up and containing
contamination from the remaining source areas.
3 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Environmental Remediation at Superfund Sites
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Brownfields
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law delivers $1.5 billion to EPA over 5 years (FY 2022-26) to award grants to
communities and nonprofitsto assess and clean up brownfield propertiesand provide technical assistance
to restore sites to hubs of economic growth. EPA will target a portion of BIL resources to communities,
both urban and rural, that traditionally have not participated in the Brownfields program because of the
lack of local technical capacity or insufficient matching resources. BIL funding also will be used to provide
supplemental funding to successful Revolving Loan Fund grant recipients who depleted their funds and
have viable cleanup projects ready to start.
Brownfield projects can range from cleaning up
buildings with asbestos or lead contamination to
assessing and cleaning up abandoned properties that
once managed hazardous substances. Once cleaned
up, former brownfield properties can be redeveloped
into productive uses such as grocery stores, affordable
housing, health centers, museums, parks, and solar
farms. Approximately 149 million Americans live within
three miles of a brownfields site.
First year BIL funding is projected to
result in over 880 site assessments,
78 sites cleaned-up, and 20,000 jobs
leveraged in cleanup, construction,
and redevelopment.
Expected Results Year 2:
The Program plans to award approximately $240 million in Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund, Cleanup,
Assessment, and Technical Assistance Grants and approximately $60 million in state and tribal response
program grants with 2023 BIL funds.
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$850,000 in BIL funding to assess
and plan for cleanup at brownfield
sites located around the Parade
Park Homes site in downtown
Kansas City. The community in
this area of downtown faces
disproportionately high rates of
asthma, diabetes, and ranks in the
90th percentile for unemployment.
The community also lives with
legacy pollution due to the
proximity to hazardous waste
facilities.
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During this first year, 97 communities are expected to receive a total of approximately $72 million in
Brownfields Community Wide Assessment Grants. 39 existing Revolving Loan Fund Grant recipients,
who have demonstrated success in cleaning up and redeveloping brownfield sites, are expected
to receive a total of $107 million in supplemental funding. Additionally, communities that do not
have the capacity to manage brownfields grants have received a total of $15.6 million in obligated
funds through contracts and interagency agreements for Targeted Brownfields Assessments.
Approximately 71 percent of the first year awarded BIL funds will go to recipients with proposed
projects in historically underserved areas that meet the Brownfields Program's criteria for Justice40.
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Recycling and Waste Management
Transforming U.S. Recycling and Waste Management:
Improper waste management continues to disproportionately impact people of color, residents of low-
income communities, and those living in tribal nations and territories. The Bipartisan Infrastructure
Law provides EPA with new authority and unprecedented funding to support local waste management
infrastructure and recycling programs. Some communities that lack waste management infrastructure do
not have curbside waste collection services, recycling, or composting prog rams. This increases the burden
on landfills, decreases their capacity, and increases greenhouse gas emissions. Importantly, methane from
landfills creates eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions from the anaerobic decomposition
of food waste in landfills. Food waste is the single most common material sent to landfills in the U.S.,
comprising 24 percent of what goes to landfills. Preventing food waste increases food security, promotes
resource and energy conservation, and helps address climate change.
BIL provides $350 million for EPA to implement the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling grant program
authorized under the 2020 Save Our Seas 2.0 Act and authorizes a new Recycling Education and Outreach
grant program. This substantial investment will transform recycling and solid waste management by
helping communities modernize local waste management systems and improve education and outreach
on how to recycle right. Funds will be used to help state, local, territorial, and tribal governments improve
outreach on proper recycling, as well as provide a model recycling program toolkit.
BIL also provides $10 million to develop and promote safe, economical best practices for collecting batteries
to increase recycling and $15 million for EPA to develop a voluntary labeling program for batteries. Many
people don't know where or how to recycle batteries.
To ensure that EPA designed these new programs with the input of all affected communities, EPA embarked
on a substantial outreach effort in 2022. EPA conducted 115 feed back sessions and collected input through
a Request for Information. These activities generated valuable insights on recycling challenges, barriers,
and needs to inform each program's design.
Expected Results Year 2:
During year two, EPA anticipates announcing the availability of $140 million in funding for the Solid Waste
Infrastructure for Recycling and Recycling Education and Outreach grant programs, available to states,
tribes, territories, and local governments. For more information, visit the Transforming U.S. Recycling and
Waste Management website.
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participant engagement meetings held across
the country on National Recycling Strategy/
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law activities
4,719
participants representing states, Tribal Nations,
local government, nongovernmental organizations,
and industry reached through meetings
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Pollution Prevention Grants
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $100 million over 5
years, ($20 million per year through 2026) to expand the current 2% Or the Pollution
Pollution Prevention (P2) grant program, which will triple the Prevention BIL funds are
annual funding available to states, Tribes, and other eligible na directlv to tribes
entities to "promote the use of source reduction techniques by
businesses."4 This expanded P2 Grant Program will advance the
Biden-Harris Administration's priorities on mitigating climate change and targeting communities with
environmental justice concerns.
P2 projects heip reduce or eliminate pollutants from entering waste streams or being released into the
environment prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal. Less pollution means fewer hazards posed to public
health and the environment. It is often cheaper for businesses to prevent pollution from being created,
than to clean it up afterwards or pay for control, treatment, or disposal of commercial or hazardous waste.
P2 also promotes the reduction in the use of water, energy, and other raw materials, which also translates
to savings for business and less greenhouse gas emissions.
In FY 2022, the P2 Program continued to focus on five program priorities or National Emphasis Areas (NEAs)
for applicants to choose from and added an NEA specifically for tribes; five industrial sector NEAs and one
for federally recognized tribes and intertribal consortia working in Indian Country. EPA also encouraged
the applicants to emphasize P2 technical assistance that can address environmental justice concerns
in underserved communities. Focusing technical assistance on the NEAs provides the opportunity for
synergies between P2 grantees, businesses, partners, and other stakeholders affiliated with similar sectors
or communities. By encouraging this collaborative engagement, information, expertise, lessons learned,
training, and tools can be more easily shared among others working in similar NEAs. In addition, applicants
were able to use a newly developed P2 Environmental Justice Mapping Tool to aid in identifying and
targeting facilities that are in or adjacent to disadvantaged communities.
4 Pollution Prevention Act of 1990
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In the first year of BIL implementation, EPA's Pollution Prevention program anticipates
awarding 39 BIL grants totaling approximately $12M, including awards to tribes
located in Alaska, California, New York, and Oklahoma.
EPA anticipates all selections will be fully awarded by the first quarter of FY 2023.
FY 2022 IIJA FUNDED P2 GRANTS
Expected Results Year 2:
In FY 2023, the Pollution Prevention program will announce two new competitive grant opportunities,
which will focus more intensively on advancing environmental justice priorities and addressing climate
impacts.Onegrantopportunity will leverage SaferChoice and Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP)
tools to assist businesses in disadvantaged communities in accessing safer and more sustainable products
and services to serve the needs of institutions and consumers. The other grant opportunity will leverage
the Toxics Release Inventory
(TRI) and other agency First Year IIJA/BIL Pollution Prevention Grants to States and Tribes
chemical release databases
to target P2 technical
assistance and pollution
prevention solutions for
businesses that are in or
adjacent to communities
with environmental justice
concerns. EPA's Pollution
Prevention program expects
to increase the use of
evaluation tools to improve
data quality and evidence
building to better measure
the success of the program.
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EPA Announces $350,000 Pollution Prevention Grant to Montana State University
[Press Release Sept. 8,2022]
In September 2022, EPA announced the award of a $350,000 P2 grant to Montana State University
to fund work that incorporates tribal knowledge and western scientific policies and procedures
to prevent pollution.The grant will build a statewide intertribal council and support a partnership
between MSU's Native American Studies department and the Salish Kootenai College to create
pollution prevention toolkits that incorporate Tribal Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with existing
pollution prevention practices.
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APPENDIX
Appendix 1. EPA's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Allocations
For more information, visit our BIL website, epa.gov/infrastructure or click here.
EPA BIL Programs by National Program & Funding Category
Bl Line Item
Total BIL
Appropriation
Amount (1)
FY 2022 BIL
Appropriations
Obligations
(Funds Awarded)
as of Nov 1,2022
Office of Water (OW)
$50,193,089,000
$9,100,802,000
$4,244,415,376
OW State Revolving Funds
$43,244,009,000
$7,671,186,000
$4,036,425,764
Clean Water State Revolving Loan Funds
$11,672,004,500
$1,895,343,000
$1,389,004,997
Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds
$11,672,004,500
$1,895,343,000
$1,169,657,503
Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds - Lead Service
Line Replacement
$14,925,000,000
$2,985,000,000
$1,168,418,154
Clean Water State Revolving Loan Funds - Emerging
Contaminants
$995,000,000
$99,500,000
$41,574,186
Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Funds - Emerging
Contaminants
$3,980,000,000
$796,000,000
$267,770,924
OW Contaminant & UIC Grants
$5,024,750,000
$1,044,750,000
$1,399,018
Addressing Emerging Contaminant Grants
$4,975,000,000
$995,000,000
$1,186,622
UIC Grants
$49,750,000
$49,750,000
$212,396
Geographic and Related Water Programs
$1,924,330,000
$384,866,000
$206,590,595
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
$995,000,000
$199,000,000
$114,832,423
Chesapeake Bay
$236,810,000
$47,362,000
$41,296,894
San Francisco Bay
$23,880,000
$4,776,000
$150,751
PugetSound
$88,555,000
$17,711,000
$8,838,984
Long Island Sound
$105,470,000
$21,094,000
$17,650,771
Gulf of Mexico
$52,735,000
$10,547,000
$32,844
South Florida
$15,920,000
$3,184,000
$14,772
Lake Champlain
$39,800,000
$7,960,000
$7,685,513
Lake Pontchartrain
$52,735,000
$10,547,000
$62,659
Southern New England Estuaries
$14,925,000
$2,985,000
$1,513,603
Columbia River Basin
$78,605,000
$15,721,000
$1,912,043
Pacific Northwest
$3,980,000
$796,000
$528,128
National Estuary Program Grants
$131,340,000
$26,268,000
$4,612,179
Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan
$59,700,000
$11,940,000
$7,430,924
Drinking Water Programs - Class VI Wells
$24,875,000
$4,975,000
$28,108
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Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM)
$5,348,125,000
$3,875,525,000
$1,227,786,811
Superfund
$3,482,500,000
$3,482,500,000
$1,036,505,507
Superfund Remedial
$3,482,500,000
$3,482,500,000
$1,036,505,507
Brownfields
$1,492,500,000
$298,500,000
$190,052,756
Brownfields
$1,194,000,000
$238,800,000
$188,550,951
Brownfields
$298,500,000
$59,700,000
$1,501,805
Recycling and RCRA Grants
$373,125,000
$94,525,000
$1,228,548
Battery Recycling Best Practices
$9,950,000
$9,950,000
$126,453
Voluntary Battery Labeling Guidelines
$14,925,000
$14,925,000
$155,024
Solid Waste Infrastructure Financing - Save Our Seas Act
Grants
$273,625,000
$54,725,000
$739,151
Recycling Grants
$74,625,000
$14,925,000
$207,920
Office of Air and Radiation (OAR)
$4,975,000,000
$995,000,000
$917,633,436
Clean School Bus Program
$4,975,000,000
$995,000,000
$917,633,436
Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
(OCSPP)
$99,500,000
$19,900,000
$11,549,855
Pollution Prevention Grants
$99,500,000
$19,900,000
$11,549,855
Inspector General
$269,286,000
$64,573,000
$1,998,019
Inspector General
$269,286,000
$64,573,000
$1,998,019
Grand Total
$60,885,000,000
$14,055,800,000
$6,403,383,498
(1) Total Appropriated = Amount appropriated less IG funds that are shown as a separate line item.
Appendix 2. White House Bipartisan Infrastructure Law(BIL) Maps Dashboard
The White House Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Maps Dashboard includes maps and visual
representations intended to be illustrative of the scope of the BIL and the impact on American communities.
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