Brownfields & Environmental Remediation
Abandoned Gas Station Cleanup Grant
Agency: Ohio Department of Development, in partnership with Ohio EPA, and the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Underground Storage Tank Regulations
Summary: Provides funding to assess & clean up former gas and service stations with documented petroleum releases.
Eligible Applicants: Counties, municipalities, townships, port authorities, and county land reutilization corporations
Local Match Requirement: None
Deadline: Applications accepted year-round
Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER)
Agency: Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Summary: Provides grants for projects that leverage mine land reclamation with local economic development.
Eligible Applicants: Local governments and nonprofit organizations
Available Funding: $17 million in 2022
Funding request ceiling: None
Local Match Requirement: None
Deadline: TBA
Brownfield Loan Program
Agency: Ohio Water Development Authority
Summary: Provides loans for undertaking any “voluntary action” and thereby providing funding for the remediation of contaminated property. Properties must meet the definition of a brownfield.
Eligible Applicants: Local government agencies or eligible private entities
Local Match Requirement: N/A
Deadline: Applications accepted year-round
Brownfield Remediation Program
Agency: Ohio Department of Development
Summary: Funds remediation of hazardous substances or petroleum at industrial, commercial, or institutional property
Eligible Applicants: Local governments, port authorities, conservancy districts, park districts, land banks, nonprofits, or for-profit organizations that have entered into an agreement with a unit of local government.
Available Funding: $175 million; $1 million set-aside for each county
Local Match Requirement: No match required for dedicated county portion ($1 million set-aside); 25% local match required for projects awarded outside of the county’s dedicated portion
Deadline: Applications accepted December 5, 2023 through April 1, 2024
Brownfields Job Training
Agency: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: funding for 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.
Eligible Applicants: Local governments, nonprofits
Available Funding: $12 million; award ceiling is $500,000
Local Match Requirement: None
Deadline: August 2, 2023
Building Demolition and Site Revitalization Program
Agency: Ohio Department of Development (ODOD)
Summary: Funding for the demolition of commercial and residential buildings and revitalization of surrounding properties on sites that are not brownfields.
Eligible Applicants: County land reutilization corporations
Available Funding: $150 million; $500,000 set-aside for each county
Local Match Requirement: No match required for dedicated county portion; 25% otherwise
Deadline: Applications accepted October 31, 2023 through April 1, 2024
Climate Pollution Reduction Grants
Agency: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Funds for planning of local greenhouse gas reduction strategies. Planning funds can be used to update existing climate, energy, or sustainability plans, or to develop new plans.
Eligible Applicants: Local governments, councils of government
Available Funding: $67 million; $1 million is available to the 67 most population metropolitan statistical areas, though eligible applicants in lower-ranked MSAs may apply
Local Match Requirement: None
Deadline: Notice of Intent to participate is due April 28, 2023
Community Recycling and Litter Prevention Grants
Agency: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Funds projects that initiate/expand recycling programs, encourage sustainable practices, and support litter prevention efforts.
Eligible Applicants: Local governments, state colleges/universities, public/private K-12 schools, solid waste management districts or authorities, park districts, health districts, Keep Ohio Beautiful affiliates, boards of education, and nonprofits
Local Match Requirement: None
Deadline: February 3, 2023
Diesel Emissions Reduction Grants
Agency: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Funds the replacement of aging diesel transit buses
Eligible Applicants: Public transit systems in Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality Improvement Program-eligible counties
Available Funding: $8-10 million, annually
Local Match Requirement: 20%
Deadline: TBA
Home Sewage Treatment Systems
Agency: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: The Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund, in conjunction with local health districts and participating banks, can offer individual property owners reduced interest rates on bank loans to repair or replace failing home sewage treatment systems.
Eligible Applicants: Local health departments
Local Match Requirement: N/A
Deadline: TBA
Housing-Related Hazards and Lead-based Paint Capital Fund Program
Agency: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Summary: Funding to evaluate and reduce residential health hazards in public housing, including lead-based paint, carbon monoxide, mold, radon, fire safety, and asbestos.
Eligible Applicants: Public housing authorities
Available Funding: $107.4 million
Local Match Requirement: None
Deadline: April 13, 2023
Lake Erie Protection Fund
Agency: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Funds research and projects protecting, preserving, and restoring Lake Erie or its tributary watersheds.
Eligible Applicants: Local governments, nonprofit organizations
Local Match Requirement: None
Deadline: TBA
Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program
Agency: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Summary: Funds comprehensive lead abatement programs that identify and control lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately-owned rental or owner-occupied housing populations. Healthy Homes Supplemental funding is intended to enhance the lead-based paint hazard control activities by comprehensively identifying and addressing other housing hazards that affect occupant health.
Eligible Applicants: Local governments, special districts
Available Funding: $403.8 million
Local Match Requirement: 10 percent, minimum
Deadline: April 13, 2023
Mosquito Control Grants
Agency: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Funding for implementing mosquito control and source reduction measures
Eligible Applicants: Local health departments, other related governmental entities defined as an agency of the state
Available Funding: $800,000, annually
Local Match Requirement: Last Friday in January, annually
Deadline: TBA
Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, Cleanup (MARC) Grant
Agency: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Multipurpose grants fund assessment and cleanup activities at one or more brownfield sites in a target area. Assessment grants fund brownfield inventories, planning, environmental assessments, and community outreach. Revolving loan Fund grants capitalize loans to clean up brownfield sites. Cleanup grants fund cleanup activities.
Eligible Applicants: General purpose unit of local government, land clearance authority, regional council of council of governments, state, nonprofit organizations, LLCs
Local Match Requirement: None
Deadline: TBA
NOACA/Vibrant NEO Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund
Agency: Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency/Vibrant NEO
Summary: Loans for clean-up and remediation of brownfield sites in 12-county Vibrant NEO region. Owner/applicant must not be responsible for the contamination
Eligible Applicants: Local governments, nonprofits, for-profit entities
Available Funding: $1 million; 0% loans
Local Match Requirement: None
Deadline: Applications accepted year-round
Ohio Environmental Education Fund
Agency: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Education projects targeting pre-K to university students/teachers, the public and the regulated community.
Eligible Applicants: State and local governments, local schools/boards, universities, nonprofits, for-profit companies
Available Funding: $750,000, annually
Local Match Requirement: 10%
Deadline: January 15 and July 15, annually
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) Mitigation Grants
Agency: Ohio PCB Board
Summary: Funds planning, design, and construction of environmental projects (i.e., source controls, remedial measures, etc.) that address environmental harm or benefit public health and mitigate impacts from PCB contamination.
Eligible Applicants: Local governments, nonprofits, colleges and universities, and state agencies.
Available Funding: $80 million (total settlement funds awarded in Yost v. Monsanto)
Deadline: January 31, 2023 for state agencies; June 30, 2023 for other eligible applicants
Recycling Market Development Grants
Agency: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Provides businesses opportunities to create/expand recycling processing and recycled material production.
Eligible Applicants: Businesses in cooperation with local government sponsor (municipality, county, township, village, state college and university, or solid waste management district and authority).
Local Match Requirement: 100%
Deadline: February 3, 2023
Scrap Tire Grants
Agency: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Funding to create/expand scrap tire processing capacity and product manufacturing.
Eligible Applicants: Businesses, educational institutions, local governments, nonprofit organizations
Local Match Requirement: 100%
Deadline: February 3, 2023
Scrap Tire Grants – No Fault Tire Removal
Agency: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Funding for removal of scrap tires, which have been dumped (not by applicant) on properties
Eligible Applicants: Individuals, corporate landowners, state and local government agencies
Local Match Requirement: N/A
Deadline: TBA
Targeted Brownfield Assessment Program
Agency: Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Free Phase I and Phase II environmental assessments, asbestos surveys, geophysical surveys, and underground storage tank evaluations provided to local governments, port authorities, and land banks on abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial, commercial, or institutional property where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by known or potential releases of hazardous substances or petroleum.
Eligible Applicants: Local governments, port authorities, park districts, land banks, nonprofit organizations
Local Match Requirement: N/A
Deadline: Applications accepted year-round
Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) Grants
Agency: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Funding over 5-year period to provide technical assistance to communities to help cleanup and reuse brownfield sites.
Eligible Applicants: General purpose unit of local government, land clearance authority, regional council of council of governments, state, nonprofit organizations, LLCs
Available Funding: $5 million
Local Match Requirement: None
Deadline: February 14, 2023
*Prepared by the Northeast Ohio Four County Regional Planning and Development Organization (NEFCO). Funding opportunities provided for general informational purposes. NEFCO does not guarantee accuracy of information listed (i.e., eligibility requirements, application deadlines, matching requirements, etc.). Please consult appropriate funding agency for additional information.