Atlanta, Georgia will receive a brownfields revolving loan fund grant totaling $300,000. This is in addition to the more than $1.7 million in grant funding for community-wide Brownfields assessment activities and cleanup planning that seven communities in Georgia were selected to receive.

The bill will authorize a RLF for ship channel improvement projects that have been authorized by Congress. Such projects are expensive, and they generally require a port authority or state agency to pay 35 to 50 percent of the costs, according to a report from the Senate Select Committee on Texas Ports.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected 2 existing Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund recipients in Maine to receive a total of approximately $1.1 million in supplemental funding. The support will help the entities continue their work cleaning up contaminated brownfield properties.

Businesses in Southwest Colorado will be eligible for $300,000 in federal grants, Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, said in a release. The grant will be matched by Region 9, resulting in a total of $600,000 for new rural businesses.

Albany, GA, City Commissioners voted to provide funding needed to move the storm damaged Albany Museum of Art (AMA) downtown. City leaders approved a one million-dollar deferred loan to the museum which will come from the Downtown Development Revolving Loan Fund. 

The vertical farming facility would be a place where green leafy vegetables would be grown year-round, under artificial light, and carefully controlled conditions. The proposed indoor growing facility would stand a story and a half tall and be window-less. Members of South Bend's Industrial Revolving Loan Fund Board have tentatively approved a $700,000 loan for the project.

Neighborhood Development Services plans to renovate Paul's Do-It Center at 129 N. Chestnut St. into a 20,000-square-foot, seven-screen multiplex. Their efforts are being supported by a $500,000 dollar RLF commitment from the Portage County commissioners.

A revolving loan program for small businesses city officials started in 2014 with Community Development Block Grant funds has a problem: No one wants the city's money. Just one company has used the program since its inception.