Types of Funding

Assessment Grants

Assessment Grants provide funding for brownfield inventories, planning, environmental assessments and community outreach.

Relevant Brownfields Grant Program policy changes impacting the FY 2027 competitions will be published this summer, as needed.

Community-wide Assessment Grants

Appropriate for communities that are beginning to address their brownfield challenges, as well as for communities that have ongoing efforts to bring sites into productive reuse.
Applicants may request up to $500,000 to assess sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants or petroleum.
Performance period is up to 4 years.
Current EPA Brownfields Assessment Grant recipients and Multipurpose Grant recipients must demonstrate that payment has been received from EPA (also known as ‘drawn down’), and drawn down funds have been disbursed, for at least 70.00% of each Assessment and Multipurpose cooperative agreement they have with EPA by October 1, 2026, in order to apply for an FY 2027 Community-wide Assessment Grant.

Assessment Coalition Grants

Designed for one “lead” entity to partner with two to four entities that do not have the capacity to apply for and manage their own EPA cooperative agreement and otherwise would not have access to Brownfields Grant resources.
The list of entities eligible to apply for an FY 2027 Assessment Coalition Grant is the same for both lead and non-lead coalition members.
The coalition must have at least one non-lead member that has never been awarded a Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, or Cleanup Grant.
The members of the coalition may not be an agency or instrumentality of themselves (e.g., a county and the redevelopment authority of the same county), except for coalitions in which the state is the lead and one of the members is a regional council or regional commission that is created by a state legislature through a charter or another official action.
Target areas must be identified for each coalition member, may not overlap, and must be in at least three distinct municipalities or jurisdictions (e.g., town, city, or Tribe).
The lead member must have legal authority to expend grant funds on behalf of the non-lead members to conduct the proposed activities. If the lead member's geographic boundary does not encompass the non-lead members' geographic boundaries, the lead member must identify the relevant law(s), ordinance(s), or other documentation to demonstrate their legal authority to expend grant funds outside of their geographic boundary.
Applicants may request up to $1,000,000 to assess sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants or petroleum.
Performance period is up to 4 years.
Current EPA Brownfields Assessment Grant and Multipurpose Grant recipients (i.e., both lead and non-lead coalition members) must demonstrate that payment has been received from EPA (also known as ‘drawn down’), and drawn down funds have been disbursed, for at least 70.00% of each Assessment and Multipurpose cooperative agreement they have with EPA by October 1, 2026, in order to apply for an FY 2027 Assessment Coalition Grant.

Community-wide Assessment Grants for States and Tribes

Only available to states, Federally Recognized Tribal Nations and eligible native corporations in Alaska to address brownfield sites in their jurisdiction.
Applicants may request up to $1,000,000 to assess sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants or petroleum.
Performance period is up to 5 years.
Current EPA Brownfields CWAGST Grant recipients must demonstrate that payment has been received from EPA (also known as ‘drawn down’), and drawn down funds have been disbursed, for at least 60.00% of the CWAGST cooperative agreement they have with EPA by October 1, 2026, in order to apply for an FY 2027 CWAGST Grant.

Cleanup Grants

Cleanup Grants provide funding to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites owned by the applicant.

Relevant Brownfields Grant Program policy changes impacting the FY 2027 competitions will be published this summer, as needed.

Performance period is up to 4 years.
Applicants may request up to $500,000 to address one or more brownfield sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants or petroleum.
Applicants may submit only one Cleanup Grant application each competition cycle.

Note: Brownfield sites where Brownfields Cleanup Grant funds were previously expended may not receive additional Cleanup Grant funding.

Statutory Cleanup Cost Share Requirement

Grant recipients may be required to provide a 20 percent match in the form of a contribution of money, labor, materials or services for eligible activities.

Multipurpose Grants

Multipurpose Grants are appropriate for communities that have identified through community engagement efforts a discrete area (such as a neighborhood, a number of neighboring towns, a district, a corridor, a shared planning area or a census tract) with one or more brownfield sites.

EPA will not issue a request for Multipurpose Grants in FY 2027.

Target area may not include communities in distinctly different geographic areas.
Applicants must own a site(s) that meets the CERCLA § 101(39) definition of a brownfield site within their target area where cleanup activities may be conducted.
Applicants can apply for up to $1,000,000 and should demonstrate how grant funds will result in at least one of each of the following:
- Phase II environmental site assessment
- Site cleanup
- Overall revitalization that includes a feasible reuse plan for one site
Eligibility determinations for site-specific assessment and cleanup activities will be made after award and throughout the project period.
Grant recipients may be required to provide a $40,000 match in the form of a contribution of money, labor, materials or services for eligible costs. (Note: EPA has waived cost share requirements for MAC Grants in FY26.)
Performance period is up to 5 years.
Current EPA Brownfields Multipurpose Grant and Assessment Grant recipients must demonstrate that payment has been received from EPA (also known as ‘drawn down’), and drawn down funds have been disbursed, for at least 70.00% of each Multipurpose and Assessment cooperative agreement they have with EPA by October 1, 2025, in order to apply for an FY 2026 Multipurpose Grant.

Revolving Loan Fund Grants

Revolving Loan Fund Grants provide funding for a grant recipient to capitalize a revolving loan fund and to provide loans and subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites. Through these grants, EPA strengthens the marketplace and encourages stakeholders to leverage resources to clean up and redevelop brownfields. When loans are repaid, the loan amount is returned to the fund and re-lent to other borrowers, providing an ongoing source of capital within a community.

Statutory RLF Cost Share Requirement

Grant recipients may be required to provide a 20 percent match in the form of a contribution of money, labor, materials or services for eligible activities.

Job Training Grants

Job Training Grants provide funding to nonprofits, local governments, and other eligible organizations to provide environmental training for residents impacted by brownfield sites in their communities.

Allows nonprofits, local governments and other organizations to recruit, train and place unemployed and underemployed residents of areas affected by the presence of brownfield sites.
Graduates develop the skills needed to secure full-time, sustainable employment in various aspects of hazardous and solid waste management and within the larger environmental field, including sustainable cleanup and reuse and chemical safety.

Technical Assistance

EPA provides funding to organizations to provide training and technical assistance to communities to help address their brownfield challenges.

State and Tribal Response Program Funding

EPA’s Section 128(a) State and Tribal Response Program empowers states, Tribal Nations, communities and other stakeholders to build strong partnerships and local capacity to prevent, assess, safely clean up and sustainably reuse brownfields.