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EPA Community-wide Brownfield Assessment Grants for Site Assessment and Reuse Planning

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is offering FY27 Community-wide Brownfield Assessment Grants to help communities assess and plan for reuse of brownfield sites. - Government buyer: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization (OBLR). - Opportunity: Community-wide Brownfield Assessment Grant, identified as EPA-OLEM-OBLR-26-02. - Eligible applicants: Specified government organizations, Federally recognized Tribes, and qualifying nonprofit and community development entities. - Funding and scale: Applicants may request up to $500,000; approximately 30 awards are anticipated from $15 million in available funding. Site-specific activities are generally limited to $200,000 per approved eligible site. - Permitted work: Brownfield inventories and prioritization, community involvement, reuse and area-wide planning, environmental site assessments, and site-specific cleanup planning. A portion of grant funding must support site assessments. - Key restriction: Grant funds cannot be used to conduct cleanup. - Products and vendors: No commercial products, OEMs, or vendors are identified; this is a grant opportunity rather than a product purchase.

Description

EPA seeks applications for Community-wide Assessment Grants to prevent, inventory, assess, and plan for cleanup and reuse of brownfield sites. Eligible grant activities include developing inventories, prioritizing sites, community involvement, planning, site assessments, and preparing site-specific cleanup and reuse plans; grant funds cannot be used for cleanup. Applicants may request up to $500,000, and site-specific activities at each approved eligible site are limited to $200,000. The opportunity anticipates approximately 30 awards from $15,000,000 in available funding.

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