| USEPA Region 2 Brownfields staff will be hosting a workshop for potential EPA brownfield grantees at the Department of Environmental Conservation Headquarters at 625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233 on Tuesday, October 27, at 9 a.m.
These brownfields grants may be used to address sites contaminated by petroleum and hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum). Opportunities for funding are as follows:
- Brownfields Assessment Grants (each funded up to $200,000 over three years; Assessment Coalitions are funded up to $600,000 over three years),
- Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund Grants (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years), and
- Brownfields Cleanup Grants (each funded up to $200,000 over three years).
The proposal submission deadline is December 18, 2015.
Eligible applicants include State, local, and tribal governments and quasi-government agencies. Non-profits are also eligible for cleanup grants.
Please contact Ms. Lya Theodoratos of USEPA – Theodoratos.Lya@epa.gov, if interested in attending.
The guidelines, and supplemental guidance documents, are available on the USEPA Brownfield Grant Home Page:
http://www2.epa.gov/brownfields/apply-brownfields-grant-funding |
