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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $232 Million in Grants to Clean Up
Brownfield Sites, Address Legacy Pollution, Advance Environmental Justice, and
Spur Economic Revitalization
WASHINGTON?– Today, Sept. 6, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced the availability of $232 million in grant funding through EPA’s
Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup (ARC) program. This
is the fourth wave of funding supported by the Biden-Harris
Administration’s?Investing in America agenda to assess and clean up
polluted brownfield sites across the country. The new grants will advance
environmental justice and help transform once-polluted, vacant, and abandoned
properties into community assets while spurring economic revitalization in
underserved communities.
The President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) provides $1.5 billion to
EPA’s Brownfields Program. This funding has supercharged the Brownfields
Program to support economic development in more communities across the
country. EPA anticipates awarding approximately 200 grants nationwide this
cycle at amounts ranging from $500,000 to $4 million per award. 
“The grants awarded through this Brownfields program help communities turn
polluted and often abandoned properties into community assets,” said EPA
Administrator Michael S. Regan.?“Thanks to funding from President
Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are able to provide grants to more
communities than ever before, helping make them cleaner, healthier and
economically stronger.” 
The Notices of Funding Opportunities and application information are posted
on?www.grants.gov/. Applications are due by November 14, 2024 via
grants.gov.
EPA’s Brownfields Program advances President Biden’s?Justice40
Initiative?to direct 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain Federal
investments to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by
underinvestment and overburdened by pollution. The Brownfields Program is
contributing to this commitment to advance environmental justice and EPA is
working to advance equity considerations in all aspects of its work.
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 in grant
funding available each year. Thanks to the President’s historic investments
in America through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA increased that
yearly investment nearly four times over.
Copies of the FY25 Brownfields Grants Guidelines and other application
resources are available on the Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund,
and Cleanup (MARC) Grant Application Resources webpage.
The Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization will host outreach webinars
on September 19, 2024, and September 24, 2024, to explain the
Narrative/Ranking criteria for interested applicants and to address commonly
asked questions. Prior registration is not required. 
Link to join the Assessment Grants webinar on September 19 at 12:00 pm ET
Link to join the Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup Grants webinar on September
24 at 12:00 pm ET
Read more on EPA’s Brownfields Program.
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