Brownfields 2023 Attendee Evaluation Survey

Provide Your Feedback on the Brownfields Conference and Help Us Plan Brownfields 2025!

We were so glad you were able to join us in Detroit for Brownfields 2023.

Please take a few moments to tell us about your experience. Your feedback is very important to the Brownfields Conference planning team, and will help us create an even better event in 2025.

This survey should take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Responses are anonymous. Please submit your response by Wednesday, November 1, 2023.

New EPA Brownfield Grant Opportunities: 

Guidelines Released, Applications Due 11/13/2023

U.S. EPA recently released its FY2024 Brownfield grant guidelines with several grant opportunities with application deadlines for submission on November 13, 2023. The U.S. EPA plans to award $235M in 200 brownfield grants ranging from $500,000 to $5M. You may find and download these guidelines here.

This year the brownfield grant opportunities include each of the following opportunities with links provided below for each specific grant type’s guidelines. Each of these grant opportunities has a current closing date for applications of Nov. 13, 2023:

• FY2024 Multipurpose Grants
• FY2024 Community-wide Assessment Grants
• FY2024 Assessment Coalition Grants
• FY2024 Community-wide Assessment Grants for States and Tribes
• FY2024 Cleanup Grants

This summary of grant resources may be reviewed at either the FY24 Multipurpose and Assessment Grant Ranking Narrative Criteria Outreach Presentation. 

Special notes:

A summary of changes in the FY2024 Brownfield Grant Guidelines from FY23 is available HERE.

These Tips for Submitting an Application through Grants.gov include the 5 steps, one of which (registering in www.sam.gov and/or obtaining a Unique Entity Identifier -UEI) could take up to a month or more, so should be addressed now if necessary! 

1. Register with SAM (the System for Award Management) at www.sam.gov. If you are already registered with www.sam.gov, make sure your account is active.
2. Obtain a UEI, a 12-digit alphanumeric ID, assigned in www.sam.gov for your organization.
3. Complete an AOR (Authorized Organization Representative) profile, and create a username and password in www.grants.gov; using the correct UEI.
4. Become an authorized AOR by requesting approval from your organization’s E-Business Point of Contact (E-Biz POC).
5. Track the AOR status by logging into www.grants.gov.

Additional special note highlighting the EPA Grants Community Library of Frequently Asked Questions. This EPA Grants Community Library of FAQs can help answer many grant related questions and concerns.

2023 Phoenix Award Recipients

Brownfields 2023 Poster Gallery Winners

Brownfields 2025 - Where to Next?

The date and location for Brownfields 2025 will be announced in the coming months. Stay tuned!

Post-Conference Notes

• Conference photos are now available on brownfields2023.org.
• Session PowerPoints are available on brownfields2023.org/sessions
• If you require a certificate of attendance, please use our form to request one (click here for form). We will attempt to fulfill all requests as quickly as possible.
• Please use our contact form to requests a new copy of your receipt, if necessary.
• Click here for Frequently Asked Questions.
• Whova post-event access ends November 11, 2023. You may use boards and communicate with other attendees via the app until then.

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