Dear Superfund Colleagues,
In 2024, in collaboration with the Office of Community Revitalization, the Superfund Redevelopment Program will pilot
Local Foods, Local Places (LFLP) technical assistance in communities impacted by Superfund sites. With your help,
up to three communities will receive no-cost LFLP technical assistance. Interested communities should submit a brief
online application (
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LFLP-Superfund-2024). The evaluation criteria focus on the following areas: community need, project goals, program fit, environmental benefits, human health benefits, and local partnerships. We are hoping to identify communities that are well-equipped for implementation and could readily benefit from this planning process and the connection to state and federal funding partners it provides.
Please forward this information to your contacts in communities that may be interested and copy your Region’s Superfund Redevelopment Coordinator for their awareness .
This LFLP assistance is not a grant. No funding is exchanged between EPA and the selected communities.
LFLP Superfund pilot applications will be due by midnight EST on Friday, February 9, 2024 and we expect to inform selected communities by mid March 2024. Please feel free to contact Alexis Rourk Reyes, Superfund Redevelopment Program Manager, at
Rourk.alexis@epa.gov with questions.
Background on Local Foods, Local Places
The LFLP program has been serving communities across the country since 2014, partnering with other federal agencies and states to provide community-based planning technical assistance. LFLP facilitators guide community partners as they work with residents, local governments, business and nonprofit partners to develop a LFLP Community Action Plan that identifies community aspirations, key goal priorities, future project ideas, and short-term actions on local food system development and placemaking. By addressing both food systems and placemaking, community planning can create powerful synergies and prepare communities to implement more effective and equitable strategies to improve local food access, human health, environmental protection, community revitalization, economic development, and the overall quality of life in the places where residents live, work, and play.
Many thanks for your support in getting this opportunity out to communities impacted by Superfund sites!
Alexis
Alexis Rourk Reyes
Superfund Redevelopment Program
Community Involvement and Program Initiatives Branch
Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency