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Section 4: OTHER REQUIREMENTS Local Match Requirement The applicant must pay for at least 25 percent of the total estimated investigation costs as a local match. Award Limits The maximum cleanup site investigation award is $50,000 per site. If requests for contamination cleanup and contamination site investigation grants combined exceed the available funds for an application cycle, no more than one-half of the funds may be granted to projects in a single city, and no more than three-quarters of the funds may be granted to projects located in cities of the first class (Minneapolis and Saint Paul). Investigation Work Schedule Environmental investigations must be completed before the expiration of the grant term. Investigation grants awarded for applications received will have a one-year grant term. No grant extensions will be considered. Projects that are awarded an investigation grant for soil or ground water investigations under review by the PCA VIC program are required to submit a sampling work plan to VIC for review and comment prior to submitting a RAP to the PCA. Quality Site Assessments For soil, ground water or soil vapor investigations, applicants must enroll in a PCA voluntary program and follow PCA investigation and RAP development guidelines to ensure the quality of site assessments and, if needed, in order to receive approval of the RAP by the PCA. RAP approval by the PCA is required for future applications for cleanup funding. For more information on the investigation and RAP development process contact Patrice Jensen at 651- 757-2465 regarding the Voluntary Investigation and Cleanup (VIC) program or Stacy Van Patten at 651-757-2425 regarding the Petroleum Brownfields Program (PBP). To review guidance documents regarding the investigation and RAP development process online see http://www.pca.state.mn.us/cleanup/riskbasedoc.html. Affordable Housing Contamination cleanup site investigation grants are expected to demonstrate the potential for redevelopment. If the potential redevelopment includes an affordable housing component, for TBRA applications submitted in 2013, affordable housing is defined as ownership or rental housing affordable to households earning 60% of the area median income (AMI). Affordability limits for 2013 include any units for sale at $177,500 or less. For 2013, the maximum gross rent affordable at the 60% level was based on the number of bedrooms as follows: efficiency $865, 1-bedroom $927, 2-bedrooms $1,111, 3-bedrooms $1,284, 4-bedrooms $1,432 including tenant -paid utilities. A minimum of 20% of the total housing units proposed must be affordable for a project to be considered for affordable housing points. Section 5: AWARDING GRANTS/COMPETITIVE PROCESS The Livable Communities Act requires that the Metropolitan Council consider certain factors in order to ensure the highest return in public benefits for the public costs incurred. In order to evaluate applications, the following criteria will be assigned point values to compare each iii