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Brownfields Newsroom Archive — 2009-2006

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Fiscal Year 2009

• Supplemental Funding for Revolving Loan Fund Grants
  Communities in 55 state or local governments will receive $55 million in supplemental funding for brownfields revolving loan fund grants to help communities carry out cleanup activities, redevelopment projects, and create jobs for local residents living near brownfields sites.
  • EPA Press Release
    August 4, 2009
  • List of RLF Grants funded by the Recovery Act and with regular program funds (PDF) (10 pp, 50K, about PDF)
  • Brownfields Program Activities Under the Recovery Act
  • Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
  
  
• $6.8 Million in Recovery Act Funds for Brownfields Environmental Job Training
  Fourteen communities in eight states will share $6.8 million in Brownfields Job Training Grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. These grants are funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under its Brownfields Program is awarding grants of up to $500,000 each to eligible governmental entities and non-profit organizations. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in areas near brownfields sites in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio, and Washington.
  • EPA Press Release
    August 4, 2009
  • Brownfields Program activities under the Recovery Act
  • Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
  
  
• Brownfields Conference - November 16-18, 2009
  Travel Scholarships available, deadline for applications is June 15, 2009. To learn more about this opportunity, please visit www.brownfields2009.org today.
  
  
• Communities in 46 states, four Tribes, and two U.S. Territories will share $111.9 million in EPA Brownfields grants
  These communities will share $111.9 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. The grants include $37.3 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that President Obama signed into law on February 17, 2009, and $74.6 million from the EPA brownfields general program funding. Since the beginning of the Brownfields Program, EPA has awarded 1450 assessment grants totaling $337.5 million, 242 revolving loan fund grants totaling $233.5 million and 538 cleanup grants totaling $99 million.
  
  
  • EPA Press Release
    May 8, 2009
  • List of Brownfields Grants funded with regular competition funds (PDF) (13 pp, 134K about PDF)
  • List of Brownfields Grants funded by the Recovery Act (PDF) (11 pp, 93K about PDF)
  • Fact Sheets for Brownfields Grant Awardees
  
  
  
• An Estimated $40 Million in Recovery Act Funds to Supplement Eligible Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grants
  EPA is announcing the availability of an estimated $40 million in Recovery Act funds to supplement eligible brownfields revolving loan fund (RLF) grants. Grants eligible to request Recovery Act supplemental funds are brownfields RLF grants that have been previously awarded competitively under Section 104(k)(3) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) or that have transitioned to Section 104(k)(3) of CERCLA, and subject to other identified criteria. Requests for funding must be postmarked and received by email by May 1, 2009. Specific information on eligible entities and submitting a request for Recovery Act supplemental RLF funding is available in the Federal Register Notice or can be obtained by contacting the EPA Brownfields Contact for your region. More information about brownfields revolving loan fund grants is available online.
  
  
  
• Recovery Act Funds to be Awarded Using FY 2009 Competition for Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants
  In order to ensure that money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is distributed as quickly as possible, EPA will use the current Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 competition for assessment, revolving loan fund, and cleanup (ARC) grants to award Recovery Act funds and Brownfields general program funds to selected applicants. EPA plans to announce all successful ARC applicants in the FY2009 competition within the coming weeks. You can learn more about assessment, revolving loan fund and cleanup grants under the Brownfields Program on EPA's Brownfields grants and funding page. More information about the Brownfields Program's activities under the Recovery Act is available online; information about all EPA efforts under the Recovery Act is also available.
  
  
• EPA Brownfields Program to Receive $100 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
  The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 includes a provision granting $100 million to the EPA Brownfields Program for clean up, revitalization, and sustainable reuse of contaminated properties. The funds will be awarded to eligible entities through job training, assessment, revolving loan fund, and cleanup grants. More information about Brownfields Program activities under the Recovery Act are available online; information about all EPA efforts under the Recovery Act is also available.
  
  
• Brownfields Job Training Grants Announcement
  Thirteen communities in 12 states will share $2.6 million in job training grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under its Brownfields Program is awarding grants of $200,000 each to non-profit organizations, workforce investment boards, and state and local governments. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in areas near brownfields sites in Ark., Calif., Conn., Ill., Ind., Md., Mass., Mich., N.J., Oreg., Tenn., and Wis. Find Brownfields Grant Awardees.
  
  
  • EPA Press Release
    January, 2009
    
    
• Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities (TAB)
  The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency recently selected four new TAB grantees. The TAB grantees include the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Enterprise Corporation of the Delta, Kansas State University, and the Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR). The TAB grantees will help communities tackle the challenge of cleaning up and redeveloping brownfield sites by providing geographically-based technical assistance and training to communities and other stakeholders on brownfield issues. More information
  
  
• Direct Final Rule on All Appropriate Inquiries
  EPA published a direct final rule recognizing ASTM International's E2247-08 "Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process for Forestland and Rural Property" as compliant with the All Appropriate Inquiries Regulation and allowing for its use to satisfy the statutory requirements for conducting all appropriate inquiries under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA).
  
  Federal Register Notice
  December 23, 2008
  
  
• Brownfields Tax Incentive
  On October 3, 2008, H.R. 1424 was signed into law by the President. Section 318 of the bill provides for expensing of environmental remediation costs extending the current brownfield tax incentive till December 31, 2009, and is effective for expenditures paid or incurred after December 31, 2007. The tax incentive allows taxpayers to receive a current federal income tax deduction for certain qualifying remediation costs that would otherwise by subject to capitalization. The extension is a timely benefit for companies seeking to acquire or dispose of environmentally impaired properties
  
  
• Unlocking Brownfields Redevelopment: Establishing a Local Revolving Loan Fund Program
  This Brownfields Solutions Series factsheet provides an overview to those interested in applying for an RLF grant, and information to new RLF grantees on how to establish an RLF program.
  • Unlocking Brownfields Redevelopment: Establishing a Local Revolving Loan Fund Program (PDF) (6 pp, 263K about PDF).
    
    
• More than $6.3 Million Goes to Revitalizing Properties Through Supplemental Grant Funding
  Sixteen state or local governments are receiving supplemental funding for their Brownfields revolving loan fund grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This funding will enable state, local and tribal governments to make more loans and subgrants that fund cleanup at brownfields sites. More information.
  
  

Fiscal Year 2008

• Communities in 43 states, 2 Tribal Nations and 2 territories will share over $74 million in EPA Brownfields grants.
  These communities will share over $74 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. Since the beginning of the Brownfields program, EPA has awarded 1255 assessment grants totaling $298.6 million, 230 revolving loan fund grants totaling $217.7 million, and 426 cleanup grants totaling $78.7 million.
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    April 7, 2008
    
    
• Brownfields Job Training Grants Announcement.
  Thirteen communities in 10 states will share more than $2.5 million in job training grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and turning them into productive community assets. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under its Brownfields Initiative, is awarding grants of up to $200,000 each to non-profit organizations, local governments, a university, and a tribe. The grants will teach environmental assessment and cleanup job skills to individuals living in low-income areas near brownfields sites in Ala., Calif., La., Mass., N.C., Nev., N.Y., Okla., Pa., and Wash.
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    March 6, 2008
    
    

Fiscal Year 2007

• Communities in 44 States, 2 Territories and 3 Tribal Nations Share $69.9 Million in Brownfields Grants
  These communities will share $69.9 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. Since the beginning of the Brownfields program, EPA has awarded 883 assessment grants totaling $225.4 million, 202 revolving loan fund grants totaling $186.7 million, and 238 cleanup grants totaling $42.7 million.
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    March 14, 2007
    
    
• Communities in Ten States Share $2.34 Million in Brownfields Job Training Grants
  On November 13, 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency announced the selection of 12 communities to share a total of $2.34 million in brownfields job training grants. Grants of up to $200,000 each will go to non-profit organizations and local governments. This new round of Brownfields Job Training Grants will teach environmental-cleanup job skills to individuals living in low income areas near brownfields sites in 10 states.
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    November 13, 2006
    
    

Fiscal Year 2006

• Communities in 44 States, 2 Territories and 3 Tribal Nations Share $69.9 Million in Brownfields Grants
  These communities will share $69.9 million in EPA Brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. Since the beginning of the Brownfields program, EPA has awarded 883 assessment grants totaling $225.4 million, 202 revolving loan fund grants totaling $186.7 million, and 238 cleanup grants totaling $42.7 million.
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    May 12, 2006
    
    
• $2 Million in Brownfields Job Training Grants Announced
  The EPA today announced the selection of twelve communities to share a total of $2 million in brownfields job training grants. Grants of up to $200,000 each will go to non-profit organizations, educational institutions, community colleges, tribes, and state and local governments. This new round of Brownfields Job Training Grants will teach environmental-cleanup job skills to individuals living in low income areas near Brownfields sites in 11 states (Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virginia).
  
  
  • EPA News Release
    December 22, 2005

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