Evaluation of the Status of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-Funded Brownfield Site Cleanups

Why We Did This Report

We conducted this evaluation to determine whether American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants for cleaning up brownfield sites achieved the Brownfields Program intent of cleaning up and reusing these sites.

Summary of Findings

As of May 2025, of the 38 brownfield sites that received American Recovery and Reinvestment Act cleanup grants in 2009, 29 sites, or 76 percent, had achieved the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act’s statutory intent of both cleanup and reuse of contaminated sites. Nine sites, or 24 percent, had not achieved that statutory intent.