EPA Announces Brownfields RLF and Environmental Job Training Grants

Communities in 55 state or local governments will receive $55 million in supplemental funding for brownfields RLF grants to help communities carry out cleanup activities, redevelopment projects, and create jobs for local residents living near brownfields sites. The grants include $42 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that President Obama signed into law on February 17, 2009, and $13 million from the EPA brownfields general program funding. 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. EPA, under its Brownfields Program, is awarding grants of up to $500,000 each to eligible governmental entities and non-profit organizations. For more information, see http://epa.gov/brownfields/eparecovery/index.htm#supp.