U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization (OBLR) is soliciting applications from eligible entities to provide technical assistance to assist communities facing brownfields challenges within the geographic areas.
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: $5,000,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
Cooperative agreements awarded under this announcement will help communities tackle the challenge of assessing, cleaning up and preparing brownfield sites for redevelopment, especially underserved/rural/small and distressed communities. The technical assistance provided through these agreements will cover technical support on various brownfields subject areas.
TAB cooperative agreement recipients may provide the following types of activities:
Provide information about environmental science, environmental policy, and other technical matters;
- Help communities understand and communicate health risks associated with a brownfield site;
- Provide information to assist the community to better understand environmental issues and how these issues affect brownfield cleanup and redevelopment;
- Facilitate meetings between the local community, developers, lenders, and others involved in the cleanup and reuse of brownfield properties;
- Facilitate brownfield redevelopment efforts by supporting community involvement and other stakeholder participation activities;
- Facilitate community visioning and reuse sessions and generate written documentation of the results of the technical assistance;
- Provide assistance to communities dealing with brownfields-issues related to plant closures, or other significant economic disruptions, including the adverse impacts of natural disasters, or other sector-based economic issues;
- Provide assistance in understanding and complying with state Brownfields/Voluntary Cleanup
- Program requirements, including land use restrictions and other land use controls;
- Provide application review services and host cooperative agreement application writing workshops (but TAB recipients are not to provide cooperative agreement application writing services to individual applicants or potential applicants for EPA funding); and
- Host workshops and community engagement events to help establish and build strong community relationships.
- Provide technical assistance to applicants and recipients of Brownfields grants on compliance with competitive procurement requirements, administrative cost limitations, and similar activities that will help communities use EPA Brownfields funding in compliance with applicable requirements.
While applications must address all six areas, applicants may propose approaches to addressing each area that differ from or supplement the activities EPA describes.
- Community Involvement
- Health Impacts of Brownfield Sites
- Science and Technology Relating to Brownfields Assessment, Remediation, and Site Preparation
- Integrated Approaches to Brownfields Assessment, Cleanup and Redevelopment
- Brownfields Finance
- State, Territorial Tribal, and Local Government Brownfields Programs
Funding Information
The total estimated funding available under this competitive opportunity is $53,000,000 subject to the availability of funds, quality of applications received and other applicable considerations. The maximum value of each cooperative agreement will be based on the needs of the geographic area and the number of applications selected for funding. The maximum funding for applications supporting geographic areas 1-10 shall not exceed $5,000,000 and the maximum funding for geographic area 11 is $3,000,000. Although an award may exceed $5,000,000 if it contains combined proposals as described.
Project Period
The project period for the TAB cooperative agreements is five years. It is anticipated that the cooperative agreement recipient will complete all deliverables under its award during the final year of its project and allow time for reporting accomplishments data and disseminating final reports as applicable.
Eligibility 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, individual entities, 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.
