The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to streamline the
cleanup and reuse of National Priorities List sites with an
emphasis on private party participation and private investment. NPL
site designation was once a popular way for affected communities to
secure federal funding for remediation, but the program has long
suffered from lack of funding. Now, the Trump administration seeks
to streamline the delisting of NPL sites in the same manner as the
redevelopment of brownfields. One example of this initiative is the
Brownfields Utilization, Investment and Local Development (BUILD)
Act, which was enacted on March 23, 2018, and reauthorizes
EPA's Brownfields program at current funding levels through
2023. EPA is currently developing policy guidance to implement the
BUILD Act, and is soliciting comment on three of the Act's
provisions: (1) the authority to increase the per-site cleanup
grant amounts to $500,000; (2) the new multi-purpose grant
authority; and (3) the
