Office of Land and Emergency Management Grants and Funding

Open Announcements
Other Funding Opportunities

This page provides access to information on funding opportunities available in EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM). In support of EPA's policy initiative to encourage competition in the award of grants, cooperative agreements, and other assistance agreement vehicles, OLEM requires that all discretionary funding opportunities subject to the Agency's competition policy be published on this site. We encourage you to bookmark this page and visit regularly. OLEM grant and other funding opportunities will be posted as they become available. 

This page offers information on assistance agreement (i.e., grants, cooperative agreements, etc.) opportunities only. For a detailed listing of OLEM contracting opportunities, please refer to the EPA Acquisition Forecast Database.

An Application Kit including application forms and other useful information is available to assist you in applying for these grants.

OLEM Anticipated Funding Opportunities

During FY 2019, OLEM currently anticipates issuance of competitive grant solicitations in the following areas:

Environmental Workforce and Job Training Grants, Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund Grants, Brownfields Assessment Grants, Brownfields Multi-Purpose Grants, Brownfields Cleanup Grants, State Assistance Grant, Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes.

This information is subject to change and is not a firm commitment that these opportunities will be posted.

Complete details on specific funding opportunities are posted to the "Open Announcements" section of this site, and Grants.gov, as they become available. 

Open Announcements

Following are full text announcements of current OLEM funding opportunities. For your convenience, the listing of funding opportunities is organized by Program areas. Click on the links below for a current listing of funding opportunities available in each of the Program areas.

Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization

  • FY23 Guidelines for Brownfield Cleanup Grants
    EPA-I-OLEM-OBLR-24-11 (pdf) (733.81 KB)  - Closing Date: November 14, 2024.
    The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as amended by the Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development (BUILD) Act (P.L. 115-141), requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance for grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. This guidance provides information on applying for Cleanup Grants. This program is being funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58, the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law”).

    To view the announcement, please visit: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/356306.
     
  • FY23 Guidelines for Brownfield Revolving Loan Fund Grants
    EPA-I-OLEM-OBLR-24-10 (pdf) (767.81 KB)  - Closing Date: November 14, 2024.
    The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as amended by the Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development (BUILD) Act (P.L. 115-141), requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance for grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. This guidance provides information on applying for Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants. This program is being funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58, the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law”).

    To view the announcement, please visit: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356305.
     
  • FY25 Guidelines for Brownfield Assessment Grants (Community-Wide Assessment Grants for States and Tribes)
    EPA-I-OLEM-OBLR-24-09 (pdf) (781.27 KB)  - Closing Date: November 14, 2024.
    The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as amended by the Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development (BUILD) Act (P.L. 115-141), requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance for grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. This guidance provides information on applying for Community-wide Assessment Grants for States and Tribes. This program is being funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58, the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law”).

    To view the announcement, please visit: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/356304.
     
  • FY25 Guidelines for Brownfield Assessment Grants (Community-Wide Assessment Grants)
    EPA-OLEM-OBLR-24-08 (pdf) (716.44 KB)  - Closing Date: November 14, 2024.
    The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as amended by the Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development (BUILD) Act (P.L. 115-141), requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance for grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. This guidance provides information on applying for Community-wide Assessment Grants.

    To view the announcement, please visit: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/356303.
     
  • FY25 Guidelines for Brownfield Assessment Grants (Assessment Coalition Grants)
    EPA-OLEM-OBLR-24-07 (pdf) (668.3 KB)  - Closing Date: November 14, 2024.
    The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as amended by the Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development (BUILD) Act (P.L. 115-141), requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance for grants to assess and clean up brownfield sites. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides funds to empower states, communities, tribes, and nonprofit organizations to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. This guidance provides information on applying for Assessment Coalition Grants.

    To view the announcement, please visit: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/356301.
     
  • EPA-I-OLEM-OBLR-24-01 (pdf) (493.91 KB) - Closing Date:  March 1, 2024. 
    The EPA’s Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization is soliciting applications from eligible entities to provide Revolving Loan Fund Technical Assistance (RLF TA) that directly benefits entities nationwide that are eligible for EPA Brownfield RLF Grants to build sustainable RLF Programs. The purpose of this grant is to provide RLF TA that focuses on the unique complexities of EPA Brownfield RLF Grants with the goal of increasing the capacity of EPA-funded Brownfield RLF Programs nationwide. This grant is intended to 1) help communities that have not previously engaged in brownfields projects to gain an understanding of requirements for managing a successful RLF Program, and 2) build capacity for existing RLF CARs, so that they can better manage their RLF Programs when the grant is open (i.e., operating under a cooperative agreement) and in post-closeout status [i.e., operating under a closeout agreement (COA)].

    To view the announcement, please visit: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/351665.
     
  • FY25 Brownfields Job Training (JT) Grants
    EPA-I-OLEM-OBLR-24-02 (pdf) (662.26 KB) - Closing Date:  August 15, 2024. 
    This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities and nonprofit organizations to deliver Brownfields Job Training programs that recruit, train, and retain a local, skilled workforce by prioritizing unemployed and under-employed residents to obtain the skills and credentials needed for pathways into full-time employment in various aspects of hazardous and solid waste management and within the larger environmental field, including sustainable cleanup and reuse, and chemical safety. This program is being funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Public Law 117-58 (the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Law”).

    To view the announcement, please visit: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/354298

Office of Emergency Management

There are currently no open announcements for the Office of Emergency Management.

Office of Communications, Partnerships and Analysis

Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery

  • Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program for Political Subdivisions of States and Territories
    EPA-I-OLEM-ORCR-24-05 (pdf) (636.11 KB)  - Closing Date: December 20, 2024.
    The EPA is soliciting applications for a wide variety of projects that are designed to build and transform solid waste infrastructure in the United States to equitably reduce waste and manage materials to achieve a circular economy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create cleaner, resilient, and healthier communities. EPA encourages applications that demonstrate innovative solutions and programs that provide or increase access to prevention, reuse, recycling, anaerobic digestion, and composting opportunities in areas that currently do not have access. Additionally, EPA is seeking post-consumer materials management projects that address environmental justice concerns and focus predominantly on addressing the disproportionate and adverse human health, environmental, climate-related and other cumulative impacts, as well as the accompanying economic challenges of such impacts, resulting from industrial, governmental, commercial and/or other actions that have affected and/or currently affect people/communities of color, low income, tribal, and indigenous populations, and if applicable other vulnerable populations such as the elderly, children, and those with pre-existing medical conditions.

    To view the announcement, please visit: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/356430
     
  • Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia
    EPA-I-OLEM-ORCR-24-06 (pdf) (489.55 KB)  - Closing Date:  March 14, 2025. 
    The EPA is soliciting applications for a wide variety of projects designed to build and transform tribal solid waste infrastructure reducing waste and managing materials to achieve a circular economy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create cleaner, resilient, and healthier communities. Projects will create new capacity that foster environmentally sound solid waste management and facilitate greater access for tribes and tribal members of intertribal consortia to source reduction (e.g., repair clinics, reuse centers), recycling, backhaul, anaerobic digestion, and composting opportunities. EPA is seeking projects addressing environmental justice concerns and focusing predominantly on addressing the disproportionate and adverse human health, environmental, climate-related, and other cumulative impacts, as well as the accompanying economic challenges of such impacts that have affected and/or currently affect tribal and indigenous populations, and other vulnerable populations such as the elderly, children, and those with pre-existing medical conditions.

    To view the announcement, please visit: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/356431

Office of Underground Storage Tanks

There are currently no open announcements for the Office of Underground Storage Tanks.

Closed Announcements

Proposals are no longer being accepted for these announcements whose closing dates have expired. Generally, these announcements will remain posted for one year following the closing date for submission of proposals.

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Last updated on November 7, 2024