Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: A Historic Investment in Brownfields
President Biden’s leadership and bipartisan Congressional action have delivered the single- largest investment in U.S. brownfields infrastructure ever. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law invests more than $1.5 billion through EPA’s highly successful Brownfields Program.
With EPA’s funding and direct technical assistance, overburdened communities can begin to address the economic, social and environmental challenges caused by brownfields and reposition these properties for investment and revitalization.
A historic $1.5 billion investment in EPA’s Brownfields Program will transform countless lives and spur life-changing revitalization in communities large and small, urban and rural; all with the same desire to keep their neighborhoods healthy, sustainable and reflective of the people who call it home.
The funding will be used to:
- Remove barriers to brownfields reuse and spur new redevelopment to transform communities into sustainable and environmentally just places.
- Align with the President’s Environmental Justice Executive Order by stimulating economic opportunity and environmental revitalization in more than 1,700 historically overburdened communities.
- Enhance climate resiliency and promote equitable and sustainable redevelopment through expanded technical assistance for “Climate Smart Brownfields Redevelopment.”
- Provide necessary funds to states/territories and over 100 tribes, as the lead agencies in ensuring all brownfields are safely cleaned up.
- Direct grants and technical assistance funded with the Brownfields Projects appropriation will cleanup hundreds of brownfields, assess 18,000 sites, train 3,650/place 2,550 people in environmental jobs and assist hundreds of communities in identifying equitable reuse options to cultivate healthy, resilient, livable neighborhoods.
- Leverage 154,000 jobs and $30.2 billion in other public/private funding.
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Brownfields Program Plan FY22-FY23 (pdf)
Ley De Infrastructure Bipartidista: Una Inversion Historica En Brownfields (pdf)
| $1.5 BILLION Investment Highlights | 2022 & 2023 OFFERINGS* |
|---|---|
| $150 MILLION in Multipurpose Grants |
GRANT AWARD AMOUNTS PENDING POLICY DECISIONS for communities, states, tribes and nonprofits to plan, assess and cleanup sites No cost share requirement Proposals due November 2022 • Projects awarded Summer 2023 |
| $600 MILLION in Assessment Grants |
GRANT AWARD AMOUNTS PENDING POLICY DECISIONS for communities, states, tribes and nonprofits to determine extent of contamination and plan revitalization at brownfield sites No cost share requirement Proposals due November 2022 • Projects awarded Summer 2023 |
| $160 MILLION in Cleanup Grants |
GRANT AWARD AMOUNTS PENDING POLICY DECISIONS for communities, states, tribes and nonprofits to cleanup contamination on brownfield sites No cost share requirement Proposals due November 2022 • Projects awarded Summer 2023 |
| $150 MILLION in Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants |
GRANT AWARD AMOUNTS PENDING POLICY DECISIONS for existing, high-performing RLF grantees to provide loans and subgrants for the cleanup of contamination and revitalization of brownfield sites No cost share requirement Supplemental requests from existing grantees due March 2022 Funds awarded August 2022 |
| $30 MILLION in Job Training Grants |
GRANT AWARD AMOUNTS PENDING POLICY DECISIONS for communities, states, tribes and nonprofits to develop a job training program that supports revitalization at brownfield sites Proposals due July 2022 • Projects awarded November 2022 |
| $110 MILLION in Technical Assistance, Including Targeted Brownfields Assessments |
The largest investment ever in direct contracts and cooperative agreements to provide communities with technical assistance to adapt to a changing climate and remove barriers to safe and sustainable property reuse Projects awarded on a rolling basis • First round of Targeted Brownfields Assessment funds awarded April 2022 |
| $300 MILLION in Cooperative Agreements to State and Tribal Response Programs |
GRANT AWARD AMOUNTS PENDING POLICY DECISIONS cooperative agreements for states and tribes to build response program capacity, oversee brownfields cleanups and conduct limited site assessment and cleanup activities FY22 requests due May 2022 • Funds awarded November 2022 |
*Funding amounts and deadlines are tentative and subject to change.