Contamination Cleanup and Investigation Grant Program


Purpose
This program assists development authorities with contamination investigations and development of Response Action Plans (RAPs, which identify how development authorities intend to cleanup sites) or with contamination cleanup prescribed in a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)-approved RAP on a site that will be redeveloped.

Customers and Services
Cities, port authorities, housing and redevelopment authorities, economic development authorities, or counties are eligible. Both publicly and privately owned sites with known or suspected soil or groundwater contamination qualify for this program. Grants are awarded to sites where there is a planned redevelopment project. Cleanup grant applicants must have an MPCA-approved RAP. Both grant applications require a 25 percent local match, participation in the Metropolitan Council's Local Housing Incentives Programs for Twin Cities metro-area applicants, and the serious expectation that the site will be redeveloped.

Measures - Reporting period is state fiscal year (SFY), July 1 - June 30

 

SFY 2009

SFY 2010

SFY 2011

Dollars awarded

$10.4M

$5.4M

$8.5M

Number of acres redeveloped

430

337

120

Number of jobs created

1,747

958

1,279

Number of jobs retained

1,280

636

1,580


More DEED measures: Uniform Program Accountability Measures

Funding Source and Expenditure (in thousands)

 

SFY 2009

SFY 2010

SFY 2011

Petroleum Tank Release Cleanup Fund

$3,518

$1,990

$2,594

General Fund

$986

$418

$1,886

Remediation Fund

$700

$700

$1,968


Statutory Authority 
-- Minn. Stat., Chap. 116J.553

Contact Information
Meredith Udoibok, Director
Phone: 651.259.7454 or toll-free: 800.657.3858; TTY: 651.296.3900

This information current as of December 2011.