Grant Support

National Experts:  Dana Justice and Melissa Schick

Brownfield and remediation projects can be complex. To support you through the entire process successfully, SCS Engineers provides a dedicated team of specialists. From site assessment to funding, cleanup, and construction, we streamline the process and create efficiencies that give our clients a significant competitive advantage.

If you are interested in pursuing ECRG funding or EPA grants, we offer complimentary consultations and project screenings. After submitting the screening form, one of our grant experts will reach out to schedule a virtual meeting.

SCS Engineers’ Brownfields Practice is a trusted resource for municipal and real estate clients planning remediation projects. We help shorten project timelines and often reduce costs, and we help our clients win EBJ and EPA-Phoenix awards for quality and engineering design. Our experts work with you to supplement your understanding of the brownfields grant opportunities, then help you develop a successful proposal.

In addition to the funding, our in-house grant specialists are familiar with various environmental funding sources for affordable housing projects and can tailor solutions to your needs.

Our professional engineers and consultants are available to:

• Recommend grant funding available in your state or commonwealth
• Review potential sites
• Identify target sites
• Develop an appropriate scope and design for diagnostic work and remediation, inclusive of the application narrative
• Prepare cost estimates and budgets
• Develop your application

On June 24, 2026, the EPA announced $248 million in Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, and Cleanup grants to 190 communities to accelerate the cleanup of polluted sites nationwide. EPA is also providing $22.5 million in supplemental funding to 31 high-performing Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grantees, bringing the total to over $270 million in brownfields funding for land recycling.

EPA Brownfields Grants are available in multiple forms. The application submission deadline will be approximately 60 calendar days after the solicitations are published. 

In FY 2027, grants will be funded solely by the annual appropriations Congress provides to EPA’s Brownfields and Land Revitalization Program. Grants will be subject to the following statutory requirements:

• Individual grant awards must not exceed statutory limits under CERCLA § 104(k).
• Site assessments may not exceed $200,000 per site.
• Cleanup and Revolving Loan Fund Grant recipients must provide a 20% cost share/match.

EPA anticipates offering grants at the following amounts in FY 2027. All amounts are subject to change. Assessment Grants provide funding for brownfield inventories, planning, environmental assessments, and community outreach.

Community-wide Assessment Grants are appropriate for communities that are beginning to address their brownfield challenges, as well as for those with ongoing efforts to bring sites into productive reuse.

• Applicants may request up to $500,000 to assess sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants, or petroleum.
• Performance period is up to 4 years.

Assessment Coalition Grants are designed for one “lead” entity to partner with two to four entities that lack the capacity to apply for and manage their own EPA cooperative agreement and would otherwise lack access to Brownfields Grant resources.

• EPA strongly encourages coalitions to include eligible community-based nonprofit organizations as non-lead members to help promote strong local engagement and to ensure that the community’s concerns and vision for revitalization are incorporated into the project.
• The lead entity of the coalition must be one of the following:
  • State
  • County government
  • Federally recognized Indian tribe other than in Alaska
  • Alaska Native Regional Corporation
  • Alaska Native Village Corporation
  • Metlakatla Indian Community
  • Regional council established under a governmental authority (e.g., regional planning commissions)
  • Group of general-purpose units of local government established under federal, state, or local law (e.g., councils of governments)
• Must function as a single legal entity with the authority to enter into binding agreements with the Federal Government.
• Applicants may request up to $1,200,000 to assess sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants, or petroleum.
• Performance period is up to 4 years.

Community-wide Assessment Grants for States and Tribes are available only to states, federally recognized Tribal Nations, and eligible native corporations in Alaska to address brownfield sites within their jurisdictions.

• Applicants may request up to $1,000,000 to assess sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants, or petroleum.
• Awards are funded under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Therefore, activities carried out at each approved, eligible site may exceed $200,000 per grant.
• Performance period is up to 5 years.

Revolving Loan Fund Grants provide funding for a grant recipient to capitalize a revolving loan fund and to provide loans and subgrants to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites. When loans are repaid, the loan amount is returned to the fund and re-lent to other borrowers, providing an ongoing source of capital within a community.

• Grant recipients are required to provide a 20 percent match in the form of a contribution of money, labor, materials, or services for eligible activities.

Cleanup Grants provide funding to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites owned by the applicant.

• Performance period is up to 4 years.
• Sites may not receive this funding more than once.
• Applicants may request up to $500,000.
• Applicants may submit only one Cleanup Grant application each competition cycle.
• Grant recipients are required to provide a 20 percent match in the form of a contribution of money, labor, materials, or services for eligible activities.

This educational video resource covers USEPA and state funding for affordable housing projects and Brownfields redevelopment. This video focuses on California funding, with portions applicable in all states. Click here for the companion slides.

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