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EPA brownfields grant guidelines FY 2024

Brownfield Grant

Guidelines

Brownfield multipurpose grant

• Eligible recipients: Local and state governments, native/tribal entities and nonprofit organizations. 

1. Applicants must own the site where cleanup activities would take place. 

2. The grant is appropriate for communities that have identified a discrete area with one or more brownfield sites. 

• Purpose: To fund brownfield multipurpose use, assessment and cleanup projects. 

• Funding amount: Up to $1 million in funding per grant. 

Brownfield assessment grant

• Eligible recipients: Local and state governments, native/tribal entities and nonprofits. 

1. Applicants can apply for only one communitywide assessment grant. 

2. These grants are suitable for communities beginning to address their brownfield challenges or have ongoing efforts to bring sites into productive reuse. 

• Purpose: To improve sites contaminated by hazardous substances, petroleum, contaminants and pollutants. 

1. Funding is also available for other brownfield activities, including planning and developing site-specific cleanup plans and brownfield reuse plans. 

2. A portion of the assessment grant funding must be used to conduct site assessments.  

• Funding amount: Applicants may request up to $500,000 with a performance period of up to four years. 

1. The cost of assessment activities should not exceed $200,000 per site. 

2. After awarding the grant, the EPA determines site eligibility during the project period. 

Brownfield cleanup grant

• Eligible recipients: Local and state governments, native/tribal entities and nonprofits. 

1. An applicant must be the sole owner of the brownfield site to receive a cleanup grant. 

2. An applicant can submit one cleanup grant application in the FY 24 competition cycle.  

• Purpose: To facilitate cleanup activities at brownfield sites owned by the applicant.   

• Funding amount: Applicants can request $500,000 to $5 million.

1. Funding can be used for a singular brownfield site or allocated among multiple sites.