• General Purpose Unit of Local Government.
• Land Clearance Authority or another quasi-governmental entity that operates under the
supervision and control of, or as an agent of, a General Purpose Unit of Local
Government.
• Government Entity Created by State Legislature.
• Regional Council established under governmental authority or group of General Purpose
Units of Local Government established under Federal, state, or local law (e.g., councils of
governments) to function as a single legal entity with authority to enter into binding
agreements with the Federal Government.
• Redevelopment Agency that is chartered or otherwise sanctioned by a state.
• State.
• Federally recognized Indian Tribe other than in Alaska. (The exclusion of Tribes from
Alaska, with the exception of the Metlakatla Indian Community as noted below, from
Brownfields Grant eligibility is statutory at CERCLA § 104(k)(1). Intertribal Consortia,
comprised of eligible Indian Tribes, are eligible for funding in accordance with EPA’s
policy for funding intertribal consortia published in the Federal Register on November 4,
2002, at 67 Fed. Reg. 67181. This policy also may be obtained from your Regional
Brownfields Contact listed in Section VII.)
• Alaska Native Regional Corporation, Alaska Native Village Corporation, and Metlakatla
Indian Community. (Alaska Native Regional Corporations and Alaska Native Village
Corporations are defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601
and following). For more information, please refer to the FY25 FAQs.)
• Nonprofit organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
• Limited liability corporation in which all managing members are 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organizations or limited liability corporations whose sole members are 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organizations.
• Limited partnership in which all general partners are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations or
limited liability corporations whose sole members are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
• Qualified community development entity as defined in section 45D(c)(1) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986.
• Other nonprofit organizations.
This opportunity provides funding to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites owned by the applicant. A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, contaminant, controlled substance, petroleum, or petroleum product, or is mine-scarred land. This program is being funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“Bipartisan Infrastructure Law”).