FY27 Guidelines for Brownfield Assessment Grants (Community-wide Assessment Grants)
Open Posted
- Opportunity number
- EPA-OLEM-OBLR-26-02
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $500,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Environment
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
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- Elyse Salinas brownfields@epa.gov (202) 564-2858
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
EPA is soliciting applications for FY27 Community-wide Assessment Grants (funding opportunity EPA-OLEM-OBLR-26-02) to prevent, inventory, assess, and plan cleanup and reuse of brownfield sites, with applications due January 21, 2027 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Applicants may request up to $500,000, and site-specific activities may not exceed $200,000 per site, or up to $350,000 with EPA waiver approval.
Eligibility is restricted to general purpose units of local government, state agencies, federally recognized Indian Tribes (excluding Alaska, except Metlakatla Indian Community), 501(c)(3) nonprofits, qualified community development entities, and certain limited liability corporations and partnerships composed of 501(c)(3) nonprofits. Threshold criteria include applicant-type verification, a community involvement plan, and demonstration that 70% of existing grant funds will be drawn down by October 1, 2026, along with disclosure of contractors and subrecipients.
EPA anticipates approximately $15,000,000 across up to 30 awards structured as 4-year cooperative agreements, with selection notification in June 2027 and award notification in September 2027. A portion of each award must fund site assessments, and administrative costs cannot exceed 5% of total EPA-requested funds. Eligible activities include site inventories, prioritization, community involvement, Phase I and Phase II assessments, cleanup plan development, and reuse planning. Cleanup activities are not fundable.
Applicants will be scored on 155 points: project area and revitalization plans (40 points), community need and engagement (35 points), task descriptions and cost estimates (45 points), and programmatic capability and past performance (35 points). Applications must be submitted through Grants.gov and include SF-424, SF-424A, EPA Key Contacts Form 5700-54, EPA Form 4700-4, a Project Narrative Attachment, and a state or tribal environmental authority acknowledgment letter. Awards fall under Assistance Listing 66.818, Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements, and recipients must comply with 2 CFR Part 200 and Build America, Buy America provisions.
Synopsis
This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities to prevent, inventory, assess, and plan for the cleanup and reuse of brownfield sites. Eligible entities include government organizations, Federally recognized Tribes, and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. Please see Section 2.A. for the complete list of eligible entities. Applications must meet all threshold eligibility criteria in Section 2.B. to be considered eligible to receive a Community-wide Assessment Grant.
Assessment Grants provide funding for developing inventories of brownfield sites, prioritizing sites, conducting community involvement activities, conducting planning, conducting site assessments, developing site-specific cleanup plans, and developing reuse plans related to brownfield sites. A portion of the Assessment Grant funding must be used to conduct site assessments. Assessment Grant funds may not be used to conduct cleanup activities. Community-wide Assessment Grants are appropriate for communities that are beginning to address their brownfield challenges, as well as for communities that have ongoing efforts to bring sites into productive reuse.
Applicants may request funding up to $500,000 to address sites contaminated (or potentially contaminated) by hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants, including hazardous substances comingled with petroleum, and/or petroleum. To be eligible for Brownfield Grant funding, sites must meet the definition of a brownfield site under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) § 101(39) and site eligibility requirements as described in the Information on Sites Eligible for Brownfields Funding under CERCLA § 104(k). For the purposes of this funding opportunity, the cost of site-specific activities carried out at each approved, eligible site may not exceed $200,000 per site. EPA will determine site eligibility after the award of the grant throughout the project period.
Eligibility
See Section 2 of the full announcement for eligibility.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| FY27_BF_Assessment_NOFO_CommunityWide_Final_v1.pdf | ||
| PKG00294500.pdf |
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