The National Park Service will provide matching grants to states for the identification, evaluation and protection of historic properties by such means as survey, planning technical assistance, acquisition, development and certain Federal tax incentives available for historic properties, to expand the National Register of Historic Places, and to assist in carrying out historic preservation activities. Application Deadline: June 30, 2016

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is accepting applications for collaborative, community-based research that will foster better understanding of how ecosystems support human health and well-being. Specifically, this research should examine how communities can integrate ecosystem services with human health and well-being to inform their decision making and management practices. It should also develop information that allows communities to integrate environmental, societal and economic information and to better manage multiple stressors and their cumulative impacts on humans and ecosystems.

Application Deadline: April 21, 2016

Thanks to the eighth round of the Transportation Investment Generic Economic Recovery (TIGER) competitive grant program, $500 million will be available for transportation projects across the country. TIGER grants focus on capital projects that generate economic development and improve access to affordable, reliable, and safe transportation for communities. In 2013, The City of Truckee, California was awarded $1.5 million for a pedestrian tunnel that will improve connections between residential and commercial areas. The Center for Creative Land Recycling helped Oakland-based Holliday Development leverage that TIGER grant for an additional $8 million from the State’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Grant Program for the cleanup and redevelopment of the adjacent underutilized Truckee Railyard.

Join CCLR at the Brownfield Coalition of the Northeast (BCONE) Northeast Sustainable Communities Workshop (NSCW) in Newark, New Jersey on March 16. The NSCW's goal is to break new ground, offer new ideas, and posit new concepts on the topics of sustainability, collaboration and leverage, resiliency, brownfields, and their impact on community revitalization.

On Thursday February 25, The Center for Creative Land Recycling partnered with the Bay Area law firm Holland & Knight for a fantastic discussion of H&K's newly published report, "In the Name of the Environment"—a comprehensive study of recent lawsuits filed under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and recommended reforms.  More than thirty people from across the Bay Area came to hear from H&K's Jennifer Hernandez on the key findings of the study, and the author's suggestions on how to curtail further litigation abuse.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has announced $500 million will be made available for transportation projects across the country under an eighth round of Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) competitive grant program.

Deadline: April 29, 2016

Legislation introduced on February 3rd would give $1 billion towards cleaning up and redeveloping former mine lands, thus helping the coal communities around the country that have been devastated by the decline of the coal-mining industry. The Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investing More (RECLAIM) Act would help coal communities cleanup and redevelop former mining sites that possibly pose health and environmental hazards and revitalize their economies.

Economic development professionals, business owners, consultants, local governments and nonprofits interested in connecting with Nevada’s economic development are invited to attend this annual conference in Reno, September 21 - 22. Session topics will be shaped around agribusiness, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, mining, tourism, transportation, and workforce development with a focus on economic development.

The 15th Annual New Partners For Smart Growth Conference took place in Portland, OR from February 11th to February 13th and included panels, tours, workshops, networking opportunities and various learning activities for participants. CCLR’s Director of Programs, Ignacio Dayrit (below), moderated two panels for those looking for information and strategies to help initiate brownfield redevelopment in their own communities.

 Hear from EPA Region 9 (Pacific Southwest) staff, as well as EPA-funded grantees, on how they have utilized EPA’s Brownfield grants and learn about EPA’s upcoming grant solicitation for the Brownfields Area Wide Planning grant, which will be posted in Spring 2016.