The primary objectives of EPA's cercla section 128(a) state and tribal response program grants are to provide financial support to states, US territories, and tribal nations to (1) establish or…

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 awarded $758,446 to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) under the State and Tribal Response Program Grants (CFDA 66.817) for the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. This formula grant funds the MPCA's brownfields response program to enhance the agency's capacity to meet the four statutory elements required under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Section 128(a): timely survey and inventory of brownfield sites, oversight and enforcement authorities, mechanisms for public participation, and maintenance of public records of completed and planned response actions.

Under this award, the MPCA will conduct planning, assessment, and cleanup activities for brownfield sites throughout Minnesota. Key deliverables include surveying and inventorying contaminated properties whose redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence of hazardous substances; providing oversight and enforcement to ensure response actions protect human health and the environment; facilitating meaningful public involvement; approving cleanup plans; and verifying completion of response actions. The agency will also expand public education and outreach of its voluntary cleanup program, with specific focus on small and disadvantaged communities. No subawards are included in this assistance agreement.

The primary objectives of EPA's cercla section 128(a) state and tribal response program grants are to provide financial support to states, US territories, and tribal nations to (1) establish or enhance the four statutory elements of an effective state or tribal response program, as specified in cercla section 128(a)(2), (2) maintain and update, at least annually, a public record of sites, pursuant to cercla 128(B), that includes the name and location of sites at which response actions have been completed during the previous year and the name and location of sites at which response actions are planned to be addressed in the next year, and (3) conduct a limited number of brownfield site assessments or cleanups that will help establish or enhance the state or tribal nation's response program. The purpose of this award is to enhance the capacity of minnesota pollution control agency brownfields response program to meet the section 128(a) elements. Minnesota pollution control agency will oversee and perform planning, assessment, and cleanup of brownfields sites throughout the state/territory/tribal land... Activities:minnesota pollution control agency will perform the following activities: timely survey and inventory of brownfield sites, which are properties whose expansion, redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence of hazardous substances. IT also includes oversight and enforcement authorities to ensure that response actions protect human health and the environment; resources to provide meaningful public involvement; mechanisms for approval of cleanup plans, and verification of complete responses. The objective of this project is to assist in remediating and reusing brownfields sites throughout the state. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:minnesota pollution control agency will expand public education and outreach of the voluntary cleanup program to small and disadvantaged communities and assess sites through the state targeted brownfield assessment program.