Environment · Active
Brownfields Assessment Grants · EPA · High-volume · mid band
Brownfields Assessment Grants (CFDA 66.818) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $300K–$600K
- Typical award range
- 20
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- EPA
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Brownfields Assessment Grants ranks #344 of 504, #26 of 26 within EPA, and #37 of 40 among Environment programs by listed funding ceiling. Across 504 active programs, 47.041 leads by opportunity count (319, funding-ceiling rank #249) ≠ 66.054 leads by funding ceiling ($7.0 billion, opportunity rank #326). CFDA 66.818 is an active Environment program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $300K–$600K
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $60.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 8%
- of the catalog is Environment
Brownfields Assessment Grants · floor-band ceiling on a busy book (#429/502)
Brownfields Assessment Grants sits below most listed ceilings (15th percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
Brownfields Assessment Grants vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$600,000 Top 85% higher than 15% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2025-12-17
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 66.818 · EPA VOL-STEADY · #344/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MID · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #344/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MID $300K–$600K
- ELIG-MIX 3 eligible desks
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 66.818
VOL-STEADY · #344/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestBrownfields Assessm… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
High-traffic mid-ceiling grant corridor
Mid-band funding ($300,000 to $600,000) with a hot opportunity book (20 indexed rows) under CFDA 66.818. Brownfields Assessment Grants is one of the busier mid-scale corridors in the indexed set; open rate on the recent slice is 0%.
Assistance Listing text · EPA
Funds environmental assessments of brownfield sites to enable cleanup planning and economic redevelopment.
Civic applicant mix · government + nonprofit doors
Brownfields Assessment Grants combines government/tribal and nonprofit applicant types (3 doors). The listing is a civic funding corridor spanning public and nonprofit operators.
Predominantly cooperative agreements (CA) · CFDA 66.818
85% of the 62 indexed listings under CFDA 66.818 are cooperative agreements (CA), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Brownfields Assessment Grants typically uses to move money. 37% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $1.8 billion across 62 listings (avg $29.6 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 4,168 across 62 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 66.818, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Archived NOFO book · CFDA 66.818
None of the 62 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 66.818 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $200,000 to $60.0 million (300×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 100% of listings carry the Environment (ENV) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 62 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $1.0 million (53 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Environment (ENV)
Open counts use the same posted+close_date rule as the rest of PlainGrants; funding-activity codes are the Grants.gov category_of_funding field (first code when several are joined). Ceiling median is over positive reported ceilings only.
EPA · administering agency
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental protection, clean air and water programs, and pollution prevention grants.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 66.818
FY26 Guidelines for Brownfield Multipurpose (MP) Grants
FY26 Guidelines for Brownfield Cleanup Grants
FY26 Guidelines for Brownfield Assessment Grants (Community-wide Assessment Grants for States and Tribes)
FY26 Guidelines for Brownfield Assessment Grants (Community-wide Assessment Grants)
FY26 Guidelines for Brownfield Assessment Grants (Assessment Coalition Grants)
FY25 GUIDELINES FOR BROWNFIELD ASSESSMENT GRANTS (ASSESSMENT COALITION GRANTS)
FY25 GUIDELINES FOR BROWNFIELD ASSESSMENT GRANTS (COMMUNITY-WIDE ASSESSMENT GRANTS)
FY25 GUIDELINES FOR BROWNFIELD REVOLVING LOAN FUND GRANTS
FY25 GUIDELINES FOR BROWNFIELD ASSESSMENT GRANTS (COMMUNITY-WIDE ASSESSMENT GRANTS FOR STATES AND TRIBES)
FY25 GUIDELINES FOR BROWNFIELD CLEANUP GRANTS
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 66.818: 20 indexed opportunities · 0 open on the recent slice.
- No open Grants.gov rows on the recent slice, watch this CFDA for the next NOFO drop. How to apply
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administers 26 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: TRIO — Student Support Services (84.042). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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