OpportunityTitle: FY13 Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: See Section III of announcement for eligibility information.
Description: The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (&#147;Brownfields Law&#148;, P.L. 107-118) requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance to assist applicants in preparing proposals for grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites. EPA&#146;s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofits to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. EPA provides brownfields funding for three types of grants:1. Brownfields Assessment Grants &#150; provides funds to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct planning (including cleanup planning) and community involvement related to brownfield sites.2. Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants &#150; provides funds for a grant recipient to capitalize a revolving fund and to make loans and provide subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites.3. Brownfields Cleanup Grants &#150; provides funds to carry out cleanup activities at a specific brownfield site owned by the applicant.Under these guidelines, EPA is seeking proposals for Assessment Grants only. If you are interested in requesting funding for RLF and/or Cleanup Grants, please refer to announcement EPA-OSWER-OBLR-12-08 (RLF Grant guidelines) andEPA-OSWER-OBLR-12-09 (Cleanup Grant guidelines) posted separately on www.grants.gov and www.epa.gov/brownfields.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: See Section VII of announcement
GrantorContactText: See Section VII of announcement
CloseDateExplanation: Please see the announcement, including Section IV, for additional submission information.