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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1 Million Brownfields Grant Through
Investing in America Agenda to Rehabilitate and Revitalize Communities in
Dover, Delaware
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
PHILADELPHIA (May 20, 2024) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced  today a $1 million grant award from President Biden’s Investing
in America agenda to expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites
in Dover, Delaware, while advancing environmental justice. These investments
through EPA’s Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, and Cleanup 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.
EPA has selected the Downtown Dover Partnership for a Brownfields Multipurpose
Grant that will be funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Grant funds
will be used to conduct six Phase I and six Phase II environmental site
assessments, prioritize brownfield sites, and conduct community engagement
activities in the City of Dover’s downtown area.
Grant funds also will be used to clean up a former foundry and vacant building
at 680-684 Forest Street and a former dry cleaner and parking lot located at
127-145 South Governors Avenue.
EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan  announced  the awards in Philadelphia
today alongside Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, U.S. Representative Dwight
Evans (PA-03), and U.S. Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) at a local
brownfield side near Bartram’s Mile.
“President Biden sees contaminated sites and blighted areas as an
opportunity to invest in healthier, revitalized communities,” said EPA
Administrator Michael S. Regan. “That 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.”
“Today’s announcement invests more than $26,000,000 across the
mid-Atlantic to support the revitalization of brownfields,” said EPA
Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz. “This funding will help
assess and cleanup contamination, create jobs by returning idle properties to
productive reuse, and continue our progress toward a healthy and safe
environment for all Americans.”
Many communities that are under economic stress, particularly those located in
areas that have experienced long periods of disinvestment, lack the resources
needed to initiate brownfield cleanup and redevelopment projects. As
brownfield sites are transformed into community assets, they attract jobs,
promote economic revitalization and transform communities into sustainable and
environmentally just places.
Thanks to the historic $1.5 billion boost from President Biden’s Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law, EPA’s Brownfields Program is helping more communities
than ever before begin to address the economic, social, and environmental
challenges caused by brownfields and stimulate economic opportunity, and
environmental revitalization in historically overburdened communities.
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.
Additional Background:
EPA has selected these organizations to receive funding to address and support
the reuse of brownfield sites to address the health, economic, social, and
environmental challenges caused by brownfields. EPA anticipates making all the
awards announced today once all legal and administrative requirements are
satisfied.
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.
To see the list of the FY 2024 Multipurpose, Assessment and Cleanup Applicants
Selected for Funding visit 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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