Brownfields Training, Research, and Technical Assistance Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program - Appendix B

This appendix provides a listing of sample topics for training, research, and technical assistance projects to focus attention on the environmental health and conditions in low-income or socioeconomically disadvantaged communities.

The list below is not exhaustive; it is meant to be representative of the general types of projects EPA is interested in supporting. EPA will consider projects focused on other topics.

• Technical assistance to enhance community involvement and ability to reach alternative sources of funding.
  
• Research related to community involvement in ports and urban rivers; railyards; petroleum sites; and affordable housing and brownfields
  
• Technical assistance to state, local, and tribal governments on how to link land reuse strategies to state cleanup standards
  
• Sustainable future uses of Brownfields
  
• Financing tools for brownfields cleanup and redevelopment
  
• Impact of brownfields assessment and cleanup on real estate transactions
  
• Impact of environmental workforce development on state, local, and tribal economies
  
• State relations/local government relations including peer exchange.
  
• Technical assistance in leveraging funding for brownfields cleanup and redevelopment
  
• Research related to assisting communities with an inability to draw on other sources of funding because of a small population or low income of the community.