Q: What Type of Funding is Available?
A: Funding is available to cover 90 percent of the costs to complete Pre-Nomination Studies, Nomination Studies; and Implementation Strategies including Site Assessments. Local cost share is 10 percent.

Q: What Type of Applications Will Receive Funding Preferences?
A: Applications that describe areas having one or more of the following characteristics will be given funding preferences:

• Areas for which an application is partnered by a municipality and community based organization;
• Areas with concentrations of brownfield sites;
• Areas for which an applicant demonstrates support from a community based organization;
• Areas showing indicator's of economic distress, including low resident incomes, high unemployment, high commercial vacancy rates, depressed property values, and
• Areas with brownfield sites presenting strategic opportunities to stimulate economic development, community revitalization, or the siting of public amenities.

Q: When are applications due?
A: Applications must be postmarked by May 26, 2006.

More to come.