Brownfields Projects

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Cooperative AgreementFunding Mechanism
Environmental RemediationCategory
Environmental Protection AgencyAgency
$1,200,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description The Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields Program provides funds to empower States, communities, Tribes, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. The Environmental Protection Agency provides technical and financial assistance for brownfields activities that protect human health and the environment, encourage sustainable reuse, promote partnerships, strengthen local economies, and create jobs. By providing funds and technical assistance to assess, clean up, and plan for site reuse, the Environmental Protection Agency enables communities to overcome the environmental, legal, and fiscal challenges associated with brownfields properties. The Environmental Protection Agency's investments in communities across the country help local leaders eliminate uncertainties, clean up contaminated properties, and transform brownfield sites into community assets.
Eligible Uses Eligible activities include, but are not limited to, conducting community engagement and planning at one or more brownfield sites, site assessments, site cleanup planning and direct site cleanup.
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Brownfields State & Tribal Response Programs

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Cooperative AgreementFunding Mechanism
Environmental RemediationCategory
Environmental Protection AgencyAgency
$300,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description Unlike many Environmental Protection Agency cleanup programs, States and Tribal Nations are responsible for developing brownfields cleanup standards and policy and conducting or overseeing the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites within their jurisdictions. This funding is intended for States and Tribes that have the required management and administrative capacity within their government to administer a Federal grant. The primary goal of this funding is to ensure that State and Tribal response programs include, or are taking reasonable steps to include, certain elements of an environmental response program and that the program establishes and maintains a public record of sites addressed.
Eligible Uses Eligible activities include, but are not limited to, the following: Developing legislation, regulations, procedures, ordinances, guidance, etc. that establish or enhance the administrative and legal structure of a response program; Establishing and maintaining required public records; Operation, maintenance, and long-term monitoring of institutional controls and engineering controls; Conducting limited site-specific activities, such as assessment or cleanup, provided such activities establish and/or enhance the response program; Purchasing environmental insurance; and Capitalizing revolving loan funds for cleanup.
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Clean Energy Demonstrations on Current and Former Mine Land

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Grant, Cooperative Agreement, or OtherFunding Mechanism
Environmental RemediationCategory
Department of EnergyAgency
$500,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available through 2026
Program Description To demonstrate the technical and economic viability of carrying out clean energy projects on current and former mine land. Up to five 5 clean energy projects are to be carried out in geographically diverse regions, at least 2 of which shall be solar projects.
Eligible Uses The term "�clean energy project"� "�means a project that demonstrates 1 or more of the following technologies:"�(A) Solar.(B) Micro-grids."�(C) Geothermal."�(D) Direct air capture."�(E) Fossil-fueled electricity generation with carbon "�capture, utilization, and sequestration."�(F) Energy storage, including pumped storage hydropower and "�compressed air storage."�(G) Advanced nuclear technologies."�In selecting clean energy projects for participation in the program under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall prioritize clean energy projects that will--"�(A) be carried out in a location where the greatest number of jobs can be created from the successful demonstration of the clean energy project;"�(B) provide the greatest net impact in avoiding or reducing greenhouse gas emissions;"�(C) provide the greatest domestic job creation (both directly and indirectly) during the implementation of the clean energy project;"�(D) provide the greatest job creation and economic development in the vicinity of the clean energy project, particularly--"�(i) in economically distressed areas; and "�(ii) with respect to dislocated workers who were previously employed in manufacturing, coal power plants, or coal mining;"�(E) have the greatest potential for technological innovation and commercial deployment; "�(F) have the lowest levelized cost of generated or stored energy;"�(G) have the lowest rate of greenhouse gas emissions per unit of electricity generated or stored; and"�(H) have the shortest project time from permitting to completion."�
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Direct Federal Spending for Revegetation of Mined Lands

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct Federal SpendingFunding Mechanism
Environmental RemediationCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency
$100,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Funding available until expended for total amount across entire Program ($905 million), but portions of the total are allocated to specific fiscal years, each with a different period of availability
Program Description Funding to restore native vegetation and mitigate environmental hazards on mined public or private lands.
Eligible Uses Projects to restore native vegetation and mitigate environmental hazards on mined Federal or non-Federal lands.
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Funding to Support Orphan Well Plugging

BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
TBDFunding Mechanism
Environmental RemediationCategory
Department of EnergyAgency
$30,000,000.00Funding Amount

Funding Amount Notes

Period of Availability Available until expended
Program Description Funding to support the Department of the Interior's effort to establish a program to plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned wells located on Federal land.
Eligible Uses The Department is working through a number of options to use these funds to conduct scientific research on methane emissions and other hazards associated with orphan oil and gas wells.
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