This is a new program that is only available to states, tribes, and eligible native corporations in Alaska to address brownfield sites throughout their entire jurisdiction. 

• An applicant may request up to $2,000,000 to assess sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum), and/or petroleum. 
• The performance period for these grants is five years. 
• Current EPA Brownfields Assessment Grant recipients DO NOT have to demonstrate that payment has been received from EPA for at least 70.00% of each Assessment cooperative agreement they have with EPA by October 1, 2021, in order to apply for this funding. 

RFP Release: Anticipated Fall  

The program objective is to address petroleum releases from federally regulated underground storage tanks (USTs) by amending Subtitle I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. In 2005, the Energy Policy Act expanded eligible uses of the Trust Fund to include certain leak prevention activities. The LUST Trust Fund provides money to: 

• Oversee cleanups of petroleum releases by responsible parties; 
• Enforce cleanups by recalcitrant parties; 
• Pay for cleanups at sites where the owner or operator is unknown, unwilling, or unable to respond, or which require emergency action; and 
• Conduct inspections and other release prevention activities. 

To receive money from the Trust Fund, a state, territory, or tribe must enter into an assistance agreement with the federal government to spend the money for its intended purpose. 

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