FY15 Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Assistance Listings
- 66.818 -- Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements
Archived opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026
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Description
The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (Brownfields Law, P.L. 107-118) requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance to assist applicants in preparing proposals for grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites. EPAs Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofits to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. EPA provides brownfields funding for three types of grants:1. Brownfields Assessment Grants provides funds to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct planning...
(including cleanup planning) and community involvement related to brownfield sites.2. Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants provides funds for a grant recipient to capitalize a revolving fund and to make loans and provide subgrants to conduct cleanup activities at brownfield sites.3. Brownfields Cleanup Grants provides funds to conduct cleanup activities at a specific brownfield site owned by the applicant.Under these guidelines, EPA is seeking proposals for Assessment Grants only. If you are interested in requesting funding for Cleanup Grants, please refer to announcement EPA-OSWER-OBLR-14-08 (Cleanup Grant guidelines) posted separately on www.grants.gov and www.epa.gov/brownfields. Note: A solicitation for new Revolving Loan Fund Grants will not be issued in FY15. EPA expects to solicit requests from existing, high performing RLF grantees 2through a Federal Register notice for supplemental RLF funding in early 2015.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants
Miscellaneous
- Other
Additional information
See Section III of the announcement for additional eligibility information.
Grantor contact information
Description
Jerry Minor-Gordon
202-566-1817
minor-gordon.jerry@epa.gov
Documents
| File name | Description | Last updated |
|---|---|---|
| EPA-OSWER-OBLR-14-07_A-OBLR_Final-additional_other_factor.pdf | Full announcement | Dec 17, 2014 08:08 PM UTC |
Link to additional information
Archived: January 18, 2015
Award
$41,400,000
Program Funding
165
Expected awards
$--
Award Minimum
$600,000
Award Maximum
Funding opportunity number:
EPA-OSWER-OBLR-14-07
Cost sharing or matching requirement:
No
Funding instrument type:
Cooperative agreement
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
--
Category of Funding Activity:
Environment
Category Explanation:
--
History
Version:
4
Posted date:
October 17, 2014
Archive date:
January 18, 2015
