EPA announces $3M in Brownfields Grants to cleanup communities across Idaho
Seattle — Last week, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the selection of $3 million in Brownfields Grants to communities in Idaho. These grants put the agency’s commitment to protect human health and the environment into action while remaining good stewards of tax dollars and advancing policies to energize the economy. Nationwide, $267 million in grants are being awarded.
“EPA’s investment in these Brownfields grants provides an economic return for communities that goes hand-in-hand with environmental benefits,” said EPA Region 10 Administrator Emma Pokon. “These grants show EPA can both empower businesses and ensure taxpayers have clean air, land and water.”
Federal grant recipients must satisfy legal and administrative requirements to receive funds from EPA. Brownfield Grants include Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants.
Idaho is receiving three Brownfield Assessment grants, which will provide funding for brownfield inventories, planning, environmental assessments, and community outreach:
- City of Caldwell will receive $500,000
- Coeur d'Alene Tribe will receive $2,000,000
- Frontier Community Resources will receive $500,000
View the list of all selected applicants.
Background
EPA’s Brownfields Program began in 1995 and has provided nearly $2.9 billion in brownfield grants to assess and clean up contaminated properties and return blighted properties to productive reuse. To date, brownfields investments leveraged more than $42 billion in cleanup and redevelopment. Over the years, the relatively small investment of federal funding was able to leverage, from both public and private sources, more than 220,500 jobs.