The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization (OBLR) is soliciting applications for funding under Section 104(k)(7) of CERCLA, which authorizes funding to eligible entities to provide training, research, and technical assistance to facilitate the inventory of brownfield sites, site assessments, remediation of brownfield sites, community involvement, or site preparation.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/14/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000,000
Grant Duration: 4-5 years
Details:
Grants awarded under this solicitation will help communities, organizations, government agencies, nonprofits, and individuals tackle the challenge of cleaning up and revitalizing brownfield properties. For purposes of this grant, the general definitions of research and technical assistance are provided below:
- Research
- A systematic study directed toward fuller scientific knowledge or understanding of the subject studied that may include both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The term research also includes activities involving the training of individuals in research techniques where such activities utilize the same facilities as other research and development activities and where such activities are not included in the instruction function.
- Technical Assistance
- The term “technical assistance” refers to the delivery of direct ongoing advice and support, in the form of specialized knowledge, to a person(s) or organization(s) with the goal of guiding them through a particular process or helping them understand complex brownfields-related subject matter.
- Nation-wide technical assistance for Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grant recipients (RLF TA)
- Nation-wide technical assistance to nonprofits seeking to reuse brownfields sites (Nonprofits TA)
- Nation-wide technical assistance to local government leaders on developing and/or operating brownfields programs within their jurisdictions (Local Government TA)
- Research, technical assistance, and related outreach on minimizing displacement resulting from brownfields assessment, cleanup and reuse (Anti-displacement research)
- Research, technical assistance, and related outreach on land banking approaches for brownfields revitalization (Land banks research)
Note to Applicants: Applicants wishing to apply for multiple topic areas must submit a separate application for each topic area they plan to support.
Subject Areas
- Topic 1: Nation-wide Technical Assistance for Brownfields RLF programs (Funding up to $1,000,000 with a 5 year period of performance)
- Topic 2: Technical Assistance to Nonprofits Seeking to Reuse Brownfields (Funding up to $1,000,000 with a 5 year period of performance)
- Topic 3: Nation-wide Technical Assistance to Local Government Leaders on Developing and/or Operating Brownfields Programs Within their Jurisdictions (Funding up to $1,000,000 with a 5 year period of performance)
- Topic 4: Research, Technical Assistance, and Related Outreach on Minimizing Displacement Resulting from Brownfields Assessment, Cleanup and Reuse (Funding up to $500,000 with a 4 year period of performance)
Funding Information
The total estimated funding available under this competitive opportunity is $4,000,000, subject to the availability of funds, quality of applications, and other applicable considerations.
Criteria
The following information indicates which entities are eligible to apply for this cooperative agreement:
- General Purpose Unit of Local Government. [For purposes of the EPA Brownfields cooperative agreement Program, a “local government” is defined as stated under 2 CFR § 200.64.: Local government means a county, municipality, city, town, township, local public authority (including any public and Indian housing agency under the United States Housing Act of 1937), school district, special district, intrastate district, council of governments (whether or not incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under state law), any other regional or interstate government entity, or any agency or instrumentality of a local government.
- Land Clearance Authority or another quasi-governmental entity that operates under the supervision and control of, or as an agent of, a general-purpose unit of local government.
- Government Entity Created by State Legislature.
- Regional Council or group of General-Purpose Units of Local Government.
- Redevelopment Agency that is chartered or otherwise sanctioned by a state.
- State.
- Indian tribe other than in Alaska. (The exclusion of Alaskan Tribes from Brownfields cooperative agreement eligibility is statutory at CERCLA § 104(k)(1)). Intertribal Consortia, comprised of eligible Indian tribes, are eligible for funding in accordance with EPA’s policy for funding intertribal consortia published in the Federal Register on November 4, 2002, at 67 Fed. Reg. 67181.)
- Alaska Native Regional Corporation, Alaska Native Village Corporation, and Metlakatla Indian Community. (Alaska Native Regional Corporations and Alaska Native Village Corporations are defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 and following.)
- Nonprofit organization exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
- Limited liability corporation in which all managing members are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations or limited liability corporations whose sole members are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
- Limited liability partnership in which all general partners are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations or limited liability corporations whose sole members are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
- Qualified community development entity as defined in Section 45D(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
- Other Nonprofit organizations. (For purposes of this cooperative agreement program, the term “nonprofit organization” means any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that is operated mainly for scientific, educational, service, charitable, or similar purpose in the public interest; is not organized primarily for profit; and uses net proceeds to maintain, improve, or expand the operation of the organization. The term includes nonprofit colleges, universities, and other educational institutions.)
Note, individuals, for-profit organizations, and nonprofit organizations exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that lobby are not eligible to receive Brownfields cooperative agreements.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
