The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provided a historic influx of funding for brownfield cleanup and redevelopment efforts. EPA has lumped all the available grants under a larger program coined as MARC.
Community-Wide Assessment Grants: Most appropriate for communities beginning to address their brownfield challenges and communities with ongoing efforts to bring sites into productive use. Assessment Grants can be used to compile an inventory of brownfield sites; characterize a site to identify past uses, assess, and determine existing contamination of the site; and scope and plan process for site assessment. Funding is also available to conduct community engagement.
Multipurpose Grants: Multipurpose Grants support communities that have identified through community engagement efforts a neighborhood, a few neighboring towns, a district, a corridor, a shared planning area, or census tract with one or more brownfield sites. Funds can be used to conduct assessment activities, cleanup activities, and/or develop a plan for revitalization of the target area that includes a feasible reuse strategy for at least one priority site.
Cleanup Grants: Cleanup Grants provides funding to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites owned by the applicant.
The most recent round of applications is due November 14, 2024. For FY 2025 Assessment Coalition grants coalitions must have at least one non-lead member that has never been awarded a MARC grant, entities with an open Brownfields MARC grant are eligible to be a non-lead member, but have to demonstrate that they have drawn down 70% of the funding for each grant, and applicants can still include eligible CBOs as non-lead members, but this is no longer required for the Narrative response to be evaluated more favorably.
Information last updated: November 25, 2024
FY 2024 Applications Open: September 26, 2023
FY 2024 Applications Due: November 13, 2023
FY 2025 Applications Due: November 14, 2024