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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, and Tips on Writing a Competitive Grant Proposal & Preparing a Budget are available to assist you in applying for these grants.

OLEM Anticipated Funding Opportunities

During FY 2016, 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. 

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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

• FY17 Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants
  EPA-OLEM- OBLR-16-08 - Closing Date: December 22, 2016
  
  The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (“Brownfields Law,” P.L. 107-118) 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 nonprofits to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. Under these guidelines, EPA is seeking proposals for Assessment Grants only, to provide funds to inventory, characterize, assess, and conduct planning (including cleanup planning) and community involvement related to brownfield sites. If you are interested in requesting funding for Cleanup Grants, please refer to announcement EPA-OLEM-OBLR-16-09 (Cleanup Grant Guidelines) posted separately.
   
• FY17 Guidelines for Brownfields Cleanup Grants
  EPA-OLEM- OBLR-16-09 - Closing Date: December 22, 2016
  
  The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (“Brownfields Law,” P.L. 107-118) 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 nonprofits to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up, and reuse brownfield sites. Under these guidelines, EPA is seeking proposals for Cleanup Grants only to provide funds to carry out cleanup activities at a specific brownfield site owned by the applicant. If you are interested in requesting funding for Assessment Grants, please refer to announcement EPA-OLEM-OBLR-16-08 (Assessment Grant Guidelines) posted separately.
   
• FY17 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) Grants
  EPA-OLEM-OBLR-17-01 - Closing Date: February 24, 2017
  
  This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits proposals from eligible entities, including nonprofit organizations, to deliver Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training programs that recruit, train, and place local, unemployed and under-employed residents with the skills needed to secure full-time employment in the environmental field.
   
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, Section 128(A) State Implementation Support Grant
  EPA-OLEM-OBLR-17-02 - Closing Date: January 31, 2017
  
  This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits proposals from nonprofits (including universities). The purpose of the assistance agreement is to fund research, training and technical assistance to promote and stimulate information exchange among State officials managing solid, hazardous and brownfields response programs (response programs), and EPA officials, to jointly resolve Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Section 128(a) “co-implementor and co-regulator” issues, and identify emerging response program issues that are of interest to States.
   

Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization

• CERCLA Research Cooperative Agreement
  EPA-OLEM- OSRTI-16-07 - Closing Date: January 6, 2017 January 20, 2017 (Extended)
  
  This request for proposals (RFP) solicits proposals from eligible entities to promote and stimulate research for use by state environmental officials to address Superfund policy and implementation issues of importance to states. The project will provide support for state participation in developing tools, procedures and guidance to promote efficient cleanup work by states under the Superfund program.
   

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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.

• Technical Assistance To Tribal Communities Addressing Brownfields
  EPA-OLEM-OBLR-16-06 - Closing Date: October 31, 2016
• FY 2016 Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program For Tribes
  RFP# EPA-OLEM-ORCR-16-04 - Closing Date:  June 27, 2016
• FY2017 Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Grant
  RFP# EPA-OLEM-OBLR-16-05 - Closing Date: August 10, 2016
• Undergound Storage Tank Compliance Assistance and Training Support in Indian Country
  RFP# EPA-OLEM-OUST-16-03 - Closing Date:  February 11, 2016  March 11, 2016 (Extended)
  Questions and Answers, dated February 5, 2016
• FY16 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-16-01 - Closing Date:  January 14, 2016
• Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-16-02 - Closing Date: December 21, 2015
• FY16 Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants
  RFP #EPA-OSWER-OBLR-15-04 - Closing Date: December 18, 2015
• FY16 Guidelines for Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-15-05 - Closing Date: December 18, 2015
• FY16 Guidelines for Brownfields Cleanup Grants
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-15-06 - Closing Date: December 18, 2015
• FY15 Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-ORCR-15-02 - Closing Date: July 31, 2015
  • FY15 Hazardous Waste Management Grant (PDF) (23 pp, 187 K)
• FY15 Tribal Waste Management Capacity Building Training Grant
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-ORCR-15-03- Closing Date: July 31, 2015
  • FY15 Tribal Waste Management Capacity Building Training Grant (PDF) (21 pp, 171 K)
• FY15 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-15-01 - Closing Date: February 3, 2015 
  • FY15 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grant (PDF) (42 pp, 318 K)
• FY15 Guidelines For Brownfields Cleanup Grants
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-14-08 - Closing Date: December 19, 2014
  • FY15 Guidelines For Brownfields Cleanup Grants (PDF) (62 pp, 792 K)
• FY15 Guidelines For Brownfields Assessment Grants
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-14-07 - Closing Date: December 19, 2014
  • FY15 Guidelines For Brownfields Assessment Grants (PDF)(60 pp, 925 K)
• FY15 Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Grant
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-14-06 - Closing Date: September 22, 2014
  • FY15 Brownfields Area-Wide Planning Grant (PDF)(57 pp, 695 K)
• FY14 Brownfields Training, Research, and Technical Assistance Grants Guidelines
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-14-2 - Closing Date: April 18, 2014
  • FY14 Brownfields Training, Research, and Technical Assistance Grants Guidelines (PDF)(28 pp, 675 K)
• FY14 Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) Program Tribal Support Cooperative Agreements
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-IPCO-14-03 - Closing Date: June 30, 2014
  • FY14 Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) Program Tribal Support Cooperative Agreements (PDF) (38 pp, 314 K)
  • Amendment 001, dated June 4, 2014 (PDF)(2 pp, 14 K)
  • Questions and Answers, dated June 4, 2014 (PDF)(1 pg, 85 K)
• FY14 Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-ORCR-14-04- Closing Date: May 30, 2014
  • FY14 Hazardous Waste Management Grant Program for Tribes (PDF)(27 pp, 160 K)
• FY14 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grant Guidelines
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-14-01 - Closing Date: February 13, 2014.
  • FY14 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grant Guidelines (PDF)(43 pp, 323 K)
• FY14 Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-13-05 - Closing Date: January 22, 2014.
  • FY14 Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment Grants (PDF)(62 pp, 874 K)
• FY14 Guidelines for Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-13-06 - Closing Date: January 22, 2014.
  • FY14 Guidelines for Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grants (PDF)(56 pp, 746 K)
• FY14 Guidelines for Brownfields Cleanup Grants
  RFP# EPA-OSWER-OBLR-13-07 - Closing Date: January 22, 2014.
  • FY14 Guidelines for Brownfields Cleanup Grants (PDF)(65 pp, 771 K)

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