Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants

Post Date

September 28th 2011

Application Due Date

November 28th 2011

Please see the announcement including Section IV for additional due date and submission information.

Funding Opportunity Number

EPA-OSWER-OBLR-11-05

CFDA Number(s)

66.818

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Environment

Number of Awards

112

Eligibility Categories

Other

See Section III of the announcement for eligibility information.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $39000000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $1000000

Grant 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. EPA's 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 carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites. 3. Brownfields Cleanup Grants provides funds to carry out 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 RLF and/or Cleanup Grants, please refer to announcement EPA-OSWER-OBLR-11-06 (RLF Grant guidelines) and EPA-OSWER-OBLR-11-07 (Cleanup Grant guidelines) posted separately on www.grants.gov and www.epa.gov/brownfields.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Environmental Protection Agency

• Office:

  None

• Agency Contact:

  See Section VII of announcement or Megan Quinn (202) 566-2773

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Megan Quinn

• Agency Email Address:

  quinn.megan@epa.gov

• More Information:

  Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants