Wisconsin Brownfields Grant Program
Provides reimbursement grant funding to clean up contaminated Wisconsin commercial, industrial, or institutional sites for redevelopment.
About this program
The Wisconsin Brownfields Grant Program from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation helps eligible applicants investigate and remediate contaminated brownfield properties so they can be returned to productive commercial, industrial, institutional, or community use. Eligible costs may include environmental investigation, remediation, soil removal, capping, vapor mitigation, hazardous container removal, and demolition tied to redevelopment.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants include Wisconsin cities, villages, towns, counties, Tribal entities, individuals, and businesses with eligible brownfield sites where contamination creates a barrier to redevelopment.
Requirements
- Site must be an abandoned, idle, or underused commercial, industrial, or institutional property in Wisconsin.
- Applicant must demonstrate actual or suspected environmental contamination.
- Applicant must show that the party responsible for contamination is unknown, cannot be located, or is financially unable to pay for cleanup.