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EPA-I-OLEM-OBLR-22-09: FY23 Guidelines for Brownfields Cleanup Grants

Closed Closed November 22, 2022 Opportunity EPA-I-OLEM-OBLR-22-09 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: FY27 Guidelines for Brownfield Cleanup Grants (EPA-OLEM-OBLR-26-06). Status: Closes January 21, 2027 (75 days left). It is in our archive of Environmental Protection Agency notices from 2022.

• Award ceiling$60.0 million
• Total funding$60.0 million
• Expected awards40
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

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Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

See Section III of the funding opportunity announcement for eligibility information.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements awards averaged $997,011; this notice allows up to $60.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (80% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) was amended by the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act in 2002 to include Section 104(k), which provides federal financial assistance authorities for brownfields revitalization, including grants for assessment, cleanup, and revolving loan funds. The Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development (BUILD) Act (Public Law 115-141) enacted in 2018 reauthorized EPA’s Brownfields Program and made additional amendments to CERCLA that affect EPA’s brownfield grant authorities, and ownership and liability provisions. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, tribal nations, communities, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. This guidance provides information on applying for Cleanup Grants. This program is being funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58, the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law”).

Category: Environment, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, EPA-OLEM-OBLR-26-06, which is open now.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.