A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee voted Thursday morning to reauthorize EPA’s brownfields program and establish a pilot recycling grants program.
The Environment Subcommittee adopted via voice vote the “Brownfields Revitalization for a Better Tomorrow Act,” H.R. 8739, a compromise measure led by full committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.).
The bill would approve funding through fiscal 2031 for brownfields grants, meant to clean up and revitalize former industrial or commercial sites through public-private partnerships.
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The measure includes modest tweaks to the widely popular program, such as increasing the cap for individual grants and expanding the eligible recipient pool to include trade groups or businesses associations.
