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Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $300 Million in Brownfield
Grants Through Investing in America Agenda to Rehabilitate and Revitalize
Communities
Funded by $1.5 billion investment into Brownfields sites from President
Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address legacy pollution, advance
environmental justice and create healthier communities
WASHINGTON – Today, May 20, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is
announcing over $300 million in grant awards from President Biden’s
Investing in America agenda to help States, Tribal Nations, local governments
and non-profit organizations assess and clean up polluted brownfield sites
across the country. These investments through EPA’s Brownfields
Multipurpose, Assessment, and Cleanup (MAC) Grant Programs and Revolving Loan
Fund (RLF) Grant Programs will help transform once-polluted, vacant and
abandoned properties into community assets, while helping to create good jobs
and spur economic revitalization in overburdened communities.
178 communities will receive 181 grant awards totaling $231 million through
EPA’s MAC Grant Programs. EPA is also announcing $68 million in supplemental
funding for 31 existing, high-performing Brownfields RLF Grant Programs, as
well as the selection of Grow America, an RLF Technical Assistance provider,
for an estimated $3 million in grant funding. 
EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan will announce the awards in Philadelphia
today alongside Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker and U.S. Representative
Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) at a local brownfield site near Bartram’s Mile.
For over 60 years, the site was used as an oil terminal, filled with storage
tanks full of petroleum and other semi-volatile organic compounds. The City of
Philadelphia has been working to reclaim brownfield sites along Bartram’s
Mile, turning them into a community hub where residents can access trails for
hiking and biking, as well as areas for fishing, gardening, farming and more.
“Far too many communities across America have suffered the harmful economic
and health consequences of living near polluted brownfield sites,” said
President Joe Biden. “I’ve long believed that people who’ve borne the
burden of pollution should be the first to see the benefits of new investment.
Under my Administration, we are making that a reality by ensuring the historic
resources from my Investing in America agenda reach communities that need it
most. I am proud that my Administration is helping Philadelphia clean up and
transform this area into an economic engine, while tackling a longstanding
environmental injustice and creating good-paying jobs.”
“President Biden sees contaminated sites and blighted areas as an
opportunity to invest in healthier, revitalized communities,” said EPA
Administrator Michael S. Regan. “That’s why he secured historic funding
under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, supercharging EPA’s Brownfields
program to clean up contaminated properties in overburdened communities and
bring them back into productive use.” 
“I was proud to vote for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that is
again delivering needed funding to Philadelphia. Cleaning and re-using
brownfield sites is so important,” said Congressman Dwight Evans (PA-03).
“It brings and development and jobs to areas that need them, and it keeps
green spaces from being paved over. I call that a win-win!”
Continuing the successes of previous Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-funded
Brownfield grants, today’s investment will advance projects like these:
Located in Chippewa County, Michigan, the Bay Mills Indian Community (BMIC)
has long faced extensive soil and groundwater contamination from asbestos and
lead paint. With the successful support of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
funding, BMIC President Whitney Gravelle and Tribal Manager Rachel Lyons are
working to convert a former brownfield site into a recreational destination
with docks for kayaking and canoeing. This year, the Tribe’s reservation is
receiving additional new funding to tackle another nearby brownfield – the
Silver Dome Building, which was once polluted with dry-cleaning solvents and
is now being transformed into a community center. 
Dallas, Texas is leading the charge in using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
resources to transform some of the city’s most overburdened neighborhoods.
In Joppa – a community in South Dallas founded by formerly enslaved people
after the Civil War – Brownfields Grant funding is being leveraged to
rebuild the once segregated, now shuttered Melissa Pierce School into a
vibrant community center. Dallas will now receive an additional Brownfields
grant this year to continue redeveloping affordable housing properties located
in Dallas’ Southside.
With its momentous commitment to removing contaminated properties across all
its neighborhoods, the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee is
effectively using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law grants to renovate blighted
brownfields into affordable housing. The city, under the leadership of Mayor
Cavalier Johnson, will receive new loan funds this year to continue financing
projects like the remediation of the long-underutilized Filer & Stowell
factory site into a 576-unit apartments complex at the north end of Bay View
in another historically overburdened community – a fourth of these
apartments are set aside specifically for senior citizens.
EPA’s Brownfields Program advances President Biden’s?Justice40
Initiative which set a goal that 40% of the overall benefits of certain
Federal investments flow to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by
underinvestment and overburdened by pollution. The Brownfields Program strives
to meet this commitment and advance environmental justice and equity
considerations in all aspects of its work. Approximately 86% of the MAC and
RLF Supplemental program applications selected to receive funding proposed to
work in areas that include disadvantaged communities.
EPA’s Brownfields Program began in 1995 and has provided nearly $2.7 billion
in Brownfield Grants to assess and clean up contaminated properties and return
blighted properties to productive reuse. Prior to the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law, this program made approximately $60 million available each
year. Thanks to the President’s historic investments in America through the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA has now increased that yearly investment
nearly 400 percent. More than half of the funding available for this grant
cycle (approximately $160 million) comes from the historic $1.5 billion
investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This
investment has also allowed the MAC grants’ maximum award amounts to
increase significantly from $500,000 to a new maximum of $5 million per
award. 
These grants can be awarded once all legal and administrative requirements are
satisfied by selected recipients. Selected grants will be awarded to States,
Tribal Nations, local governments and non-profit organizations to address the
health, economic, social and environmental challenges caused by brownfields. 
To see the list of the FY 2024 Multipurpose, Assessment and Cleanup applicants
selected for funding visit EPA’s FY 2024  Multipurpose, Assessment and
Cleanup Applicants webpage.
To see the list of RLF Supplemental funding recipients visit EPA’s FY 2024 
Multipurpose, Assessment and Cleanup Applicants webpage.
To learn more about RLF Technical Assistance grant recipient visit EPA’s
Brownfields Grow America webpage.
For more information on EPA’s Brownfields Program visit EPA’s Brownfields
webpage.  
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