66.818: Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements

66.818

Active

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Sept. 21, 2022

Sept. 21, 2022

Brownfield sites are real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. The objectives of the Brownfield Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup cooperative agreements (project grants) are to provide funding: (1) to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct planning and community involvement related to brownfield sites; (2) to capitalize a revolving loan fund (RLF) which provide loans and subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites; (3) to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites that are owned by the grant recipient; and (4) to inventory, characterize, assess, plan or remediate one or more brownfield sites in an area proposed for Multipurpose cooperative agreements. Funding Priorities - Fiscal Year 2022: Funding will support at least 100 Assessment cooperative agreements (estimated $90 million) that recipients may use to inventory, assess, cleanup and plan reuse at brownfield sites, as authorized under CERCLA 104(k)(2). Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds will be used for approximately 20 Assessment cooperative agreements. Funding will support at least 20 direct Cleanup cooperative agreements (estimated $13 million) to enable eligible entities to clean up properties that the recipient owns, as authorized under CERCLA 104(k)(3). Funding will support at least 8 competitive RLF cooperative agreements (estimated $8 million) to capitalize a revolving loan fund which provides loans and subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites, as authorized under CERCLA 104(k)(3). In addition, approximately 40 RLF supplemental awards (estimated at $100 million) will be made non-competitively to current RLF grant recipients who meet supplemental funding criteria, in order to re-capitalize their RLF for additional loans and subgrants. Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds will be used for FY22 RLF supplemental funding awards. Funding will not be available for Multipurpose cooperative agreements.

B - Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants)

Eligibility for Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants: a general purpose unit of local government; a land clearance authority or other quasi-governmental entity that operates under the supervision and control of, or as an agent of, a general purpose unit of local government; a government entity created by a State legislature; a regional council or group of general purpose units of local government; a redevelopment agency that is chartered or otherwise sanctioned by a State; a State; an Indian Tribe other than in Alaska; an Alaska Native Regional Corporation, Alaska Native Village Corporation and the Metlakatla Indian Community; an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of that Code; a limited liability corporation in which all managing members are organizations or limited liability corporations whose sole members are organizations described in subparagraph organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of that Code; a limited partnership in which all general partners are organizations described in subparagraph (I) or limited liability corporations whose sole members are organizations described in subparagraph organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of that Code; or a qualified community development entity (as defined in section 45D(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Other nonprofit organizations that do not have 501(c)(3) tax exempt status are also eligible for Cleanup Grants. For the purposes of the Brownfields Grant Program, the term “other nonprofit organization” consistent with 2 CFR 200.70 means any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that is operated mainly for scientific, educational, service, charitable, or similar purpose in the public interest and is not organized primarily for profit; and uses net proceeds to maintain, improve, or expand the operation of the organization. The term includes nonprofit institutions of higher education. However, nonprofit organizations described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible to apply. For profit organizations are not eligible to apply. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency's Assistance Agreement Competition Policy.

Generally, those eligible entities identified above will benefit from the brownfields grant actions. Specifically, individuals and commercial organizations in communities will benefit from brownfields assessment, cleanup, and revitalization funding. New strategies for promoting environmental cleanup lessons from these grants will provide a growing base of information and knowledge for other communities across the country seeking partnerships with stakeholders to coordinate issues related to brownfields and leverage additional opportunities for redevelopment.

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