Congress boosts brownfields cleanup funding by 25% for contaminated communities
H.R. 6432 — Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025 · Filed by Sharice Davids (D-KS) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Dec 4, 2025 · Referred to committee
Your members of Congress
Enter a ZIP to see where your representative and both senators stood on this bill.
Looked up on this device — your ZIP is never stored on our servers.
What it does
This bill reauthorizes federal brownfields cleanup funding under the Superfund law by doubling the per-site remediation grant cap from $500,000 to $1,000,000, increasing annual appropriations from $200 million to $250 million for fiscal years 2026–2030, and expanding state environmental response programs to include implementation of cleanup strategies alongside assessment and enhancement. The bill benefits communities with contaminated industrial sites by providing more federal money and flexibility for remediation.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative function is to increase federal appropriations and per-site grant caps for brownfields cleanup under existing Superfund authority. It is a straightforward reauthorization and funding increase for an established environmental program.
What the text implies
- Doubling the per-site cap may accelerate remediation of larger, more complex contaminated sites that previously could not be fully funded under the $500k limit.
- Expansion of state programs to 'implement' cleanup (not just assess/enhance) may shift more operational responsibility to states, requiring corresponding state capacity and expertise.
- The $50M annual increase (2026–2030) represents a 25% boost; actual impact depends on whether Congress appropriates the full authorized amount.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Brownfields remediation directly benefits residents and communities by reducing exposure to contaminated land, enabling economic redevelopment, and improving public health. The bill increases federal funding and removes administrative caps, making cleanup more feasible for lower-income communities that lack resources to remediate sites independently.
Who stands to gain
- state environmental agencies
- local governments and municipalities
- environmental remediation contractors (indirect, as funding flows through public agencies)
Named in the bill
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Section 104(k) CERCLA, Section 128(a) CERCLA, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State environmental agencies
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 2 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Dec 4, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Dec 4, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $460,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 15 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Sharice Davids, the sponsor, reported $959,655 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- International Council of Shopping Centers — $460,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (879 characters) on Nov 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,927 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-02.
“Congress boosts brownfields cleanup funding by 25% for contaminated communities” QuorumCivic. https://share.quorumcivic.app/bill/119/hr6432 Report an error
The week in bills
One email, Sunday: what Congress passed, what it changed, and who paid.
One link arrives to confirm the address. It is used for this email and nothing else, and every issue carries an unsubscribe link.