EPA: Brownfield Assessment Grants 2025

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking applications for its 2025 Brownfield Assessment Grants.

Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

State: All States

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 11/14/2024

Size of the Grant: More than $1 million

Grant Duration: 4 Years

Details:

The EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, Tribal Nations, communities, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. This funding opportunity will award assessment grants to develop inventories of brownfield sites, prioritize sites, conduct community involvement activities, conduct planning, conduct site assessments, develop site-specific cleanup plans, and develop reuse plans related to brownfield sites. A portion of the Assessment Grant funding must be used to conduct site assessments.

Assessment Grants provide funding for developing inventories of brownfield sites, prioritizing sites, conducting community involvement activities, conducting planning, conducting site assessments, developing site-specific cleanup plans, and developing reuse plans related to brownfield sites. A portion of the Assessment Grant funding must be used to conduct site assessments. Assessment Grant funds may not be used to conduct cleanup activities.

Assessment Coalitions are designed for one “lead” eligible entity to partner with two to four eligible entities that do not have the capacity to apply for and manage their own EPA cooperative agreement and otherwise would not have access to Brownfields Grant resources.

Funding Information

The estimated total funding available for grants under this solicitation is approximately $35 million and EPA anticipates awarding an estimated 29 Assessment Coalition Grants ranging from $500,000 to $1,200,000 million per grant.

Project Period

The project period for Assessment Coalition Grants is up to four years.

Eligibility Criteria

The following information indicates which entities are eligible to apply as the lead entity for an Assessment Coalition Grant.

State.
County government.
Regional Council established under governmental authority (e.g., regional planning commissions).
Group of General Purpose Units of Local Government established under Federal, state, or local law (e.g., councils of governments) to function as a single legal entity with authority to enter into binding agreements with the Federal Government.
Federally recognized Indian Tribe other than in Alaska.
Alaska Native Regional Corporation, Alaska Native Village Corporation, and Metlakatla Indian Community.
General Purpose Unit of 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 established under governmental authority or group of General Purpose Units of Local Government established under Federal, state, or local law (e.g., councils of governments) to function as a single legal entity with authority to enter into binding agreements with the Federal Government.
Redevelopment Agency that is chartered or otherwise sanctioned by a state.
Federally recognized Indian Tribe other than in Alaska.
Nonprofit organization described in section 501(c)(3https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/356305) 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 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.