Applications Selected for FY 2024 Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Cleanup Grants, RLF Supplemental Funding, and Technical Assistance
Today, EPA is announcing that 180 communities were selected to receive 183 grant awards for a total of $233 million in funding for Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, and Cleanup (MAC) Grant programs. These Brownfields Grants will be used to assess, clean up and redevelop underutilized properties while protecting public health and the environment.
EPA is also announcing $68 million in supplemental funding to 31 existing Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grant recipients who have demonstrated success in their work to clean up and redevelop brownfield sites. Supplemental funding for RLF Grants is available to recipients that have depleted their funds and have viable cleanup projects ready for work. RLF supplemental funding helps sustain and increase the great progress these communities have made in cleaning up brownfield sites, while also helping them become stronger, healthier, and more economically competitive.
EPA also selected an RLF Technical Assistance provider, Grow America, for $3 million. The goal of the assistance is to increase the capacity of EPA-funded Brownfield RLF programs nationwide.
These investments, totaling more than $300 million, are part of former President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda. This announcement includes approximately $228 million from the historic once-in-a generation $1.5 billion investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help turn brownfield sites across the nation into hubs of economic growth.
EPA has selected these organizations to receive funding to address and support the reuse of brownfield sites. EPA anticipates making the awards once all legal and administrative requirements are satisfied.
