RR Basics
Ready for Reuse
- Program Overview
- Recovery Act Hazardous Substance Loans and Grants
- Petroleum Loans and Grants
- Documents for Borrowers and Grantees
- Wisconsin Brownfields Coalition
- All Appropriate Inquiry
- Bona Fide Prospective Purchasers
Related Information
Contaminated Lands Environmental Action Network (CLEAN)
Wisconsin Ready for Reuse Loan and Grant Program
The Ready for Reuse Program has two different types of funding currently available.
- 2009 Recovery Act Hazardous Substance Loans and Grants - loans and grants funded by the American Recovery and Revitalization Act of 2009 (Recovery Act); click here to get additional information and application materials.
- Petroleum Loans and Grants – traditional Ready For Reuse Loan & Grant funds; click here to get additional information and application materials.
- Program Basics
- Program Successes
- Additional Information
- Documents and Information for Borrowers and Grantees
- Wisconsin Brownfields Coalition
Program Basics
The Wisconsin Brownfields Coalition (WBC) has received $6 million in traditional EPA Revolving Loan Funds (RLF) since 2004, which DNR administers through the Ready for Reuse Program. The WBC also received $2 million in Recovery Act RLF funds in 2009. Ready for Reuse loans and grants are used for environmental cleanup of hazardous substances or petroleum at brownfields throughout Wisconsin.
Program Successes
- Current Funding Status and List of Awards [PDF 23KB] (Updated 10/30/09)
Debt Issuance for Loans
On Thursday, March 27, Governor Doyle signed Senate Bill 202/Assembly Bill 706 into law, which authorizes local governments to more easily issue debt for public brownfields projects.
This law granted specific authority to local units of government, including cities, villages, towns, counties, metropolitan sewerage districts, and town sanitary districts, to issue municipal obligations in anticipation of receiving proceeds from brownfields revolving loan program loans or grants. Such obligations must be repaid within 10 years or, if refinanced once, within 15 years. The 15 year or less note does not count as municipal debt, per the new statute. The bill also specifies that local units of government may issue promissory notes, which must be repaid within 20 years, for public purposes related to the brownfields revolving loan program.
Additional Information
Program Fact Sheets
- 2009 Recovery Act Ready for Reuse Program Fact Sheet (RR-821) [PDF 64KB]
- Wisconsin Ready for Reuse Loan and Grant Program Fact Sheet (RR-753) [PDF 105KB] - read this fact sheet for information about petroleum loans and grants
Other information
- Final RLF Legislation - s.292.72, Wis. Stats. [exit DNR]
- EPA Brownfields Grant Information [exit DNR]
For more information about this program or this page, contact:
Jessica Coda
608.267.6743
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