EPA Information Related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act)
EPA Programs that Implement the Recovery Act
Quick Finder
Greening Brownfields, Superfund, RCRA and LUST Cleanup Projects
EPA's Green Remediation site provides tools to help site cleanup and reuse stakeholders make informed decisions about "green cleanup" strategies.
- Brownfields Program
- Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds
- Leaking Underground Storage Tanks Program
- National Clean Diesel Campaign
- Superfund Hazardous Waste Cleanup Program
Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program will issue $100 million in competitive grants to evaluate and clean up former industrial and commercial sites.
- Information about Recovery Act funding for the Brownfields Program
- Brownfields Program home page
- Brownfields Job Training Grants
- Synopsis of grant opportunity (grants.gov)
- Full Announcement/Request for Application (PDF) (33 pp, 165K, About PDF)
- announced on grants.gov in March 2009
- closes April 20, 2009
- funding number EPA-ARRA--OSWER-OBLR-JT
- announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible governmental entities and nonprofit organizations to provide environmental job training projects that will facilitate job creation in the assessment, remediation, or preparation of brownfield sites. Eligible applicants must identify and propose to serve a community that currently receives, or has received, financial assistance (federal, state, or tribal) for brownfields assessment, revolving loan fund, cleanup, site-specific state or tribal response program work, and/or EPA-funded targeted brownfields assessments.
Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds
The State Revolving Funds will issue $6 billion to help communities with water quality and wastewater infrastructure needs and drinking water infrastructure needs. A portion of the funding will be targeted toward green infrastructure, water and energy efficiency, and environmentally innovative projects.
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks Program
This program will fund $200 million for the cleanup of petroleum leaks from underground storage tanks.
National Clean Diesel Campaign
The Clean Diesel Program will issue $300 million in grants to help regional, state and local governments, tribal agencies, and non-profit organizations with projects that reduce diesel emissions.
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Information about Recovery Act funding for the National Clean Diesel Campaign
- National Clean Diesel Campaign home page
- National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program Grants
- Synopsis of grant opportunity (grants.gov)
- Full Announcement/Request for Applications (43 pp, 260K, About PDF)
- announced on grants.gov in March 2009
- closes April 28, 2009
- funding number EPA-ARRA-OAR-OTAQ-09-06
- approximately $156 million
- for projects that can be commenced quickly, reduce diesel emissions, and maximize job preservation and/or creation and economic recovery through a variety of diesel emission reduction strategies. Eligible diesel emissions reduction solutions include:
- verified emission control technologies including retrofit devices, cleaner fuels, and engine upgrades;
- verified idle reduction technologies;
- certified engine repowers; and/or
- vehicle or equipment replacement.
- buses;
- medium-duty or heavy-duty trucks;
- marine engines;
- locomotives; and
- non-road engines or vehicles used in construction; handling of cargo (including at a port or airport); agriculture; mining; or energy production (including stationary generators and pumps).
- SmartWay Clean Diesel Finance Program Grants
- Synopsis of grant opportunity (grants.gov)
- Full Announcement/Request for Application (41 pp, 230K, About PDF)
- announced on grants.gov in March 2009
- closes April 28, 2009
- funding number EPA-ARRA-OAR-OTAQ-09-04
- approximately $30 million
- for projects that can be commenced quickly and reduce diesel emissions and promote job preservation and/or creation and economic recovery through the creation of national, state or local innovative financing program(s). Innovative financial projects include, but are not limited to, those where the loan recipient receives a specific financial incentive (i.e., better than regular market rates or conditions) for the purchase or lease of retrofitted vehicles or equipment.
- Clean Diesel Emerging Technologies Program Grants
- Synopsis of grant opportunity (grants.gov)
- Full Announcement/Request for Applications (30 pp, 200K, About PDF)
- announced on grants.gov in March 2009
- closes May 5, 2009
- funding number EPA-ARRA-OAR-OTAQ-09-05
- approximately $20 million
- for projects that can be commenced quickly, reduce diesel emissions, and maximize job preservation and/or creation and economic recovery through the use, development and commercialization of emerging technologies. An emerging technology is a device or system that reduces emissions from diesel engines or diesel engine powered vehicles or equipment that has not been certified or verified by EPA or the California Air Resources Board (CARB) but for which an approvable application and test plan have been submitted for verification. Only those technologies that have been approved and placed on EPA's Emerging Technology List, qualify as emerging technologies for the purpose of this funding solicitation.
- National Clean Diesel Campaign home page
Superfund Hazardous Waste Cleanup Program
This program will fund $600 million for the cleanup of hazardous sites.