The FY23 Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, RLF, and Cleanup (MARC) Grant Guidelines are now available in www.grants.gov and on the OBLR MARC Grant Application Resources webpage along with other General Program Resources. The application submission deadline is November 22, 2022.
EPA anticipates awarding approximately 198 grants nationwide at amounts ranging from $500,000 to $2 million per award. A portion of the funding available during this grant cycle, approximately $104 million, is available through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which makes a historic investment in cleaning up legacy pollution and delivering economic benefits. With this funding more vacant and abandoned properties will be turned into community assets that will attract jobs and promote economic revitalization in communities.
The Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization will host an outreach webinar on September 29, October 4, and October 6 at 2 PM EDT to explain the guidelines for interested applicants and to address questions. Prior registration is not required.
A link to each of the Request for Application notices, additional application resources, and links to attend the webinars are available on the MARC Grant Application Resources page.
Region 6 (R6) Laboratory Services and Applied Science Division provides a 2021 Computer-Generated Quality Assurance (QA) Training for Grantees and non-EPA R6 QA employees! The Regional QA program has transferred to online sessions to accommodate schedules during the current shelter-in-place order. The free online training discusses the EPA Quality Program. It details the requirements for conducting quality management activities for environmental data collection and environmental technology programs performed by or for the Agency. The training will take several days to complete and attendees will have a year (until January 31, 2023) to complete the training. Please review all the provided material before moving forward to take the quiz and obtaining your automated e-certificate. Note, R6 QA staff are also electronically notified once someone completes the training! Nonetheless, please obtain a screenshot of your certificate for your records. The revamped training is in lieu of the previously offered four-day classroom training, and thus will be considered as equivalent. You can access the training by clicking on the following link: https://www.epa.gov/quality/r6-qa-training-grantees-and-other-qa-personnel.
Save the Date!
Louisiana Brownfields Conference
Oct. 5 & 6, 2022
Terrebonne Parish Library - North Branch
4130 West Park Avenue, Gray, LA 70359
Does your community have abandoned buildings, old gas stations, junk yards or other potentially contaminated property that you would like to see redeveloped? Are you thinking about buying an abandoned property to help it reach its potential? Are you hesitant to move forward due to concerns over environmental liability and possible cleanup expenses? Redeveloping abandoned, idled, or underutilized real property (a.k.a. a Brownfield site) is both a challenge and an opportunity. Join South Central Planning and Development Commission, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Technical Assistance to Brownfields Program (TAB) at Kansas State University and the Louisiana Brownfields Association for a FREE 2-day workshop October 5-6, 2022, to fill up your tool box with resources and information to put these sites back into productive use and help spur further economic and community revitalization.
