The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) FY 2017 Brownfields Assessment and Cleanup Grants are now available.
These Brownfields grants may be used to address sites contaminated by petroleum and hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum). Assessment grants are funded over three years. Applicants may apply for up to $200,000 in hazardous substances funding or up to $200,000 in petroleum funding.
Community-wide Applicants applying for both hazardous substances funding and petroleum funding may request a combined total up to $300,000. Assessment Coalition Applicants may apply for up to $600,000 in hazardous substances funding and/or petroleum funding. Cleanup Grants are funded over three years.
Applicants can apply for up to $200,000 per brownfield site and can submit up to three separate, site-specific cleanup proposals.
The proposal submission deadline is December 20, 2016.