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Brownfields News and Events Archive - 2009-2006

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• FY2010 Brownfields Job Training Grant Guidelines - Request for Proposals
  Job Training Grants are funded up to $200,000 over two years. These Grants bring together community groups, job training organizations, educators, labor groups, investors, lenders, developers, and other affected parties to address the issue of providing environmental employment and training for residents in communities impacted by Brownfields. EPA's Brownfields Program is an organized commitment to help communities revitalize Brownfields properties both environmentally and economically, mitigate potential health risks, and restore economic vitality to areas where Brownfields exist. The proposal deadline is December 1, 2009.
  • Final FY2010 Brownfields Job Training Grant Guidelines (PDF) (28 pp, 273K)
  • Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) (7 pp, 136K)
    
    
• FY2010 Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup Grant Guidelines - Request for Proposals
  These grants may be used to address sites contaminated by petroleum and hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum). Opportunities for funding are as follows: Brownfields Assessment Grants (each funded up to $200,000 over three years; coalitions are funded up to $1,000,000 over three years), Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years) and Brownfields Cleanup Grants (each funded up to $200,000 over three years). The proposal deadline is October 16, 2009.
  • Final FY2010 Brownfields Assessment Grant Guidelines (PDF) (45 pp, 273K)
  • Final FY2010 Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grant Guidelines (PDF) (48 pp, 301K)
  • Final FY2010 Brownfields Cleanup Grant Guidelines (PDF) (40 pp, 254K)
  • Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) (39 pp, 215K)
    
    
• Supplemental Funding for Revolving Loan Fund Grants
  Communities in 55 state or local governments will receive $55 million in supplemental funding for brownfields revolving loan fund grants to help communities carry out cleanup activities, redevelopment projects, and create jobs for local residents living near brownfields sites.
  • EPA Press Release
    August 4, 2009
  • List of RLF Grants funded by the Recovery Act and with regular program funds (PDF) (10 pp, 50K, about PDF)
  • Brownfields Program Activities Under the Recovery Act
  • Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
  
  
• $6.8 Million in Recovery Act Funds for Brownfields Environmental Job Training
  Fourteen communities in eight states will share $6.8 million in Brownfields Job Training Grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. These grants are funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under its Brownfields Program is awarding grants of up to $500,000 each to eligible governmental entities and non-profit organizations. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in areas near brownfields sites in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio, and Washington.
  • EPA Press Release
    August 4, 2009
  • Brownfields Program activities under the Recovery Act
  • Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
  
  
• Brownfields Conference - November 16-18, 2009
  Travel Scholarships available, deadline for applications is June 15, 2009. To learn more about this opportunity, please visit www.brownfields2009.org today.
  
  
• Communities in 46 states, four Tribes, and two U.S. Territories will share $111.9 million in EPA Brownfields grants
  These communities will share $111.9 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. The grants include $37.3 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that President Obama signed into law on February 17, 2009, and $74.6 million from the EPA brownfields general program funding. Since the beginning of the Brownfields Program, EPA has awarded 1450 assessment grants totaling $337.5 million, 242 revolving loan fund grants totaling $233.5 million and 538 cleanup grants totaling $99 million.
  
  
  • EPA Press Release
    May 8, 2009
  • List of Brownfields Grants funded with regular competition funds (PDF) (13 pp, 134K about PDF)
  • List of Brownfields Grants funded by the Recovery Act (PDF) (11 pp, 93K about PDF)
  • Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees

• An Estimated $40 Million in Recovery Act Funds to Supplement Eligible Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grants
  EPA is announcing the availability of an estimated $40 million in Recovery Act funds to supplement eligible brownfields revolving loan fund (RLF) grants. Grants eligible to request Recovery Act supplemental funds are brownfields RLF grants that have been previously awarded competitively under Section 104(k)(3) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) or that have transitioned to Section 104(k)(3) of CERCLA, and subject to other identified criteria. Requests for funding must be postmarked and received by email by May 1, 2009. Specific information on eligible entities and submitting a request for Recovery Act supplemental RLF funding is available in the Federal Register Notice, Process and Consideration Guidelines (PDF) (6 pp, 178K), or can be obtained by contacting the EPA Brownfields Contact for your region. More information about brownfields revolving loan fund grants is available online.
  
  
  
• Recovery Act Funds to be Awarded Using FY 2009 Competition for Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants
  In order to ensure that money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is distributed as quickly as possible, EPA will use the current Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 competition for assessment, revolving loan fund, and cleanup (ARC) grants to award Recovery Act funds and Brownfields general program funds to selected applicants. EPA plans to announce all successful ARC applicants in the FY2009 competition within the coming weeks. You can learn more about assessment, revolving loan fund and cleanup grants under the Brownfields Program on EPA's Brownfields grants and funding page. More information about the Brownfields Program's activities under the Recovery Act is available online; information about all EPA efforts under the Recovery Act is also available.
  
  
• Job Training Grants: EPA Announces the Availability of an Estimated $5 Million Under the Recovery Act
  On March 19, 2009, EPA issued a request for applications (RFA) from eligible governmental entities and nonprofit organizations to provide environmental job training projects that will facilitate job creation in the assessment, remediation, or preparation of brownfields sites for sustainable reuse. The closing date for receipt of applications is April 20, 2009. Information about how to apply for a Recovery Act job training grant* (PDF) (35 pgs, 165K, about PDF) and more information about brownfields job training grants is available online.
  
  * Applicants are advised that minor revisions were made to this announcement on March 23, 2009. Accordingly, applicants must review and use the most recent version of the announcement when preparing their application packages.
  
  
  • Press Release
    March 20, 2009
    
    
• EPA Brownfields Program to Receive $100 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
  The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 includes a provision granting $100 million to the EPA Brownfields Program for clean up, revitalization, and sustainable reuse of contaminated properties. The funds will be awarded to eligible entities through job training, assessment, revolving loan fund, and cleanup grants. More information about Brownfields Program activities under the Recovery Act are available online; information about all EPA efforts under the Recovery Act is also available.
  
  
• Brownfields Job Training Grants Announcement
  Thirteen communities in 12 states will share $2.6 million in job training grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under its Brownfields Program is awarding grants of $200,000 each to non-profit organizations, workforce investment boards, and state and local governments. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in areas near brownfields sites in Ark., Calif., Conn., Ill., Ind., Md., Mass., Mich., N.J., Oreg., Tenn., and Wis. Find Brownfields Grant Awardees.
  
  
  • EPA Press Release
    January, 2009
    
    
• Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities (TAB)
  The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency recently selected four new TAB grantees. The TAB grantees include the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Enterprise Corporation of the Delta, Kansas State University, and the Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR). The TAB grantees will help communities tackle the challenge of cleaning up and redeveloping brownfield sites by providing geographically-based technical assistance and training to communities and other stakeholders on brownfield issues. More information
  
  
• Direct Final Rule on All Appropriate Inquiries
  EPA published a direct final rule recognizing ASTM International's E2247-08 "Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process for Forestland and Rural Property" as compliant with the All Appropriate Inquiries Regulation and allowing for its use to satisfy the statutory requirements for conducting all appropriate inquiries under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA).
  
  Federal Register Notice
  December 23, 2008
  
  
• Funding Guidance for State and Tribal Response Programs for Fiscal Year 2009
  Section 128(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as amended, authorizes a noncompetitive $50 million grant program to establish and enhance state and tribal response programs. Generally, these response programs address the assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of brownfields sites and other sites with actual or perceived contamination. Section 128 (a) cooperative agreements are awarded and administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional offices. This document provides guidance that will enable states and tribes to apply for and use Fiscal Year 2009 Section 128(a) funds. Requests for funding will be accepted from December 1, 2008 through January 31, 2009.
  • Grant Funding Guidance for State and Tribal Response Programs* (PDF) (19 pp, 118K)
    Publication Number: EPA-560-F-08-318
    November 2008
    
    *Footnote 6 of this document contains a broken link. The correct link is provided below:
    http://iaspub.epa.gov/sor_internet/registry/datastds/findadatastandard/epaapproved/latitudelongitude
    
    
• Brownfields Tax Incentive
  On October 3, 2008, H.R. 1424 was signed into law by the President. Section 318 of the bill provides for expensing of environmental remediation costs extending the current brownfield tax incentive till December 31, 2009, and is effective for expenditures paid or incurred after December 31, 2007. The tax incentive allows taxpayers to receive a current federal income tax deduction for certain qualifying remediation costs that would otherwise by subject to capitalization. The extension is a timely benefit for companies seeking to acquire or dispose of environmentally impaired properties
  
  
• Final FY2009 Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup Grant Guidelines
  These grants may be used to address sites contaminated by petroleum and hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum). Opportunities for funding are as follows: Brownfields Assessment Grants (each funded up to $200,000 over three years), Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years) and Brownfields Cleanup Grants (each funded up to $200,000 over three years). The proposal deadline is November 14, 2008.
  • Final FY2009 Brownfields Assessment Grant Guidelines (PDF) (51 pp, 1.6M, about PDF)
    
  • Final FY2009 Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grant Guidelines (PDF) (46 pp, 1.8M, about PDF)
    
  • Final FY2009 Brownfields Cleanup Grant Guidelines (PDF) (53 pp, 32.4M, about PDF)
  • Fact Sheet on Changes to Brownfields Assessment, RLF, and Cleanup Grant Guidelines (PDF) (2 pp, 231K, about PDF)
  • Fact Sheet on Assessment Coalitions (PDF) (2 pp, 25K, about PDF)
  • Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) (38 pp, 210K, about PDF)
  • Assessment Coalitions Memorandum of Agreement (PDF) (2 pp, 10K, about PDF)
  
  
  
• Unlocking Brownfields Redevelopment: Establishing a Local Revolving Loan Fund Program
  This Brownfields Solutions Series factsheet provides an overview to those interested in applying for an RLF grant, and information to new RLF grantees on how to establish an RLF program.
  • Unlocking Brownfields Redevelopment: Establishing a Local Revolving Loan Fund Program (PDF) (6 pp, 263K about PDF).
    
    
• More than $6.3 Million Goes to Revitalizing Properties Through Supplemental Grant Funding
  Sixteen state or local governments are receiving supplemental funding for their Brownfields revolving loan fund grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This funding will enable state, local and tribal governments to make more loans and subgrants that fund cleanup at brownfields sites. More information.
  
  

Fiscal Year 2008

Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource.

• Communities in 43 states, 2 Tribal Nations and 2 territories will share over $74 million in EPA Brownfields grants.
  These communities will share over $74 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. Since the beginning of the Brownfields program, EPA has awarded 1255 assessment grants totaling $298.6 million, 230 revolving loan fund grants totaling $217.7 million, and 426 cleanup grants totaling $78.7 million.
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    April 7, 2008
    
    
• Brownfields Job Training Grants Announcement.
  Thirteen communities in 10 states will share more than $2.5 million in job training grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under its Brownfields Initiative, is awarding grants of up to $200,000 each to non-profit organizations, local governments, a university, and a tribe. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in low-income areas near brownfields sites in Ala., Calif., La., Mass., N.C., Nev., N.Y., Okla., Pa., and Wash.
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    March 6, 2008
    
    

Fiscal Year 2007

Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource.

• Communities in 44 States, 2 Territories and 3 Tribal Nations Share $69.9 Million in Brownfields Grants
  These communities will share $69.9 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. Since the beginning of the Brownfields program, EPA has awarded 883 assessment grants totaling $225.4 million, 202 revolving loan fund grants totaling $186.7 million, and 238 cleanup grants totaling $42.7 million. More about Brownfields Grant Announcements.
  
  
• Communities in Ten States Share $2.34 Million in Brownfields Job Training Grants
  On November 13, 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency announced the selection of 12 communities to share a total of $2.34 million in brownfields job training grants. Grants of up to $200,000 each will go to non-profit organizations and local governments. This new round of Brownfields Job Training Grants will teach environmental-cleanup job skills to individuals living in low income areas near brownfields sites in 10 states.
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    November 13, 2006
    
    

Fiscal Year 2006

Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource.

• Communities in 44 States, 2 Territories and 3 Tribal Nations Share $69.9 Million in Brownfields Grants
  These communities will share $69.9 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. Since the beginning of the Brownfields program, EPA has awarded 883 assessment grants totaling $225.4 million, 202 revolving loan fund grants totaling $186.7 million, and 238 cleanup grants totaling $42.7 million.
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    May 12, 2006
    
    
• $2 Million in Brownfields Job Training Grants Announced
  The EPA today announced the selection of twelve communities to share a total of $2 million in brownfields job training grants. Grants of up to $200,000 each will go to non-profit organizations, educational institutions, community colleges, tribes, and state and local governments. This new round of Brownfields Job Training Grants will teach environmental-cleanup job skills to individuals living in low income areas near Brownfields sites in 11 states (Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virginia).
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    December 22, 2005

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