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fY04-05 MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 1st National Bank Building 332 Minnesota Street, Suite E200 St. Paul, MN 55101-1351 Contact: Brownfields and JOBZ Unit Local: 651-296-5005 Toll Free: 1-800-657-3858 INSTRUCTIONS CLEAN UP PROGRAM PURPOSE: The Contamination Cleanup Grant program was established by the 1993 legislature and Minnesota Statutes §§ 116J.551 - 116J.558 gives the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) authority to award grants to clean contaminated sites for redevelopment. The Contamination Cleanup Grant Program purposes include reducing the potential threat to public health and the environment, creating new jobs, increasing the tax base, and providing other public benefits by redeveloping polluted and unproductive sites. APPLICATION DEADLINES: Contamination Cleanup Grant application deadlines are November 1 and May 1 of each year. In the event that these days fall on a weekend, the deadline will be the following business day. Applications must be received by DEED at or before 4 P.M. on either date. You must submit a complete, original application and two (2) copies. An applicant may apply for more than one site, but an individual (separate) application must be completed for each site. (Note: If you are also applying for an MCRLF Loan, you must complete this application, which serves as Part 1 of the loan application. You must also complete Part 2, the MCRLF Loan Application.) GRANT ELIGIBLE COSTS: The Contamination Cleanup Grant can pay up to 75% of the cost of cleaning contamination defined under the MN Superfund (M.S. § 11513.02), as well as petroleum contamination. Types of petroleum costs that may be eligible under this program are cleanup of rail yards, scrap yards, bulk oil storage facilities, and under and above -ground storage tanks that are not eligible for the Minnesota Petrofund (see M.S. § I I5C.01). (See the budget section of this application for examples of eligible and ineligible costs). GRANT FUNDING AVAILABILITY: The total legislative appropriation for this grant program for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 is $4,362,000 of general fund monies for the investigation and cleanup of Superfund contaminants and $12.4 million of Petrofund monies. Since the program runs on a semi-annual grant cycle, the monies will be divided among the four cycles run during the biennium. Up to $250,000 of this funding will be awarded per fiscal year for DEED's Investigation and RAP Development Grants. cleanup II