Illinois
The state Bureau of Land's Office of Brownfields Assistance manages the brownfields grant and loan programs and offers technical support to communities through the services of its brownfields representatives. Brownfields representatives work directly with communities to explain cleanup options, regulatory programs and requirements and guide municipalities through the brownfields cleanup and redevelopment process. The Municipal Brownfields Redevelopment Grant Program provides funding to local municipalities to investigate and clean up brownfields properties. The Illinois Brownfields Redevelopment Loan Program is a revolving low-interest loan program that provides funds to municipalities and the private sector for the environmental cleanup of brownfields sites.

Indiana
The Indiana Brownfields Program was created by 2005 legislation that merged the brownfield financial and technical review programs into one program under the management of the Indiana Finance Authority, thereby combining existing brownfield resources to better assist communities with brownfield redevelopment. The Indiana Brownfields Program works in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other Indiana agencies to assist communities in making productive use of their brownfield properties.

In order to receive the benefit of state funding from the Indiana Brownfields Program, such as stipulated assessment grants, petroleum remediation grants, low-interest loans, or stipulated remediation grants, a private entity (property owner or developer) must first partner with a local governmental entity on a cleanup and/or redevelopment project. Private entities are not eligible to directly receive state brownfield funding, but by partnering with a political subdivision such as a city, town, county or redevelopment authority, private entities that did not cause or contribute to any site contamination, or own and/or operate at the site at the time of disposal of hazardous substances or release of petroleum on the site, can benefit from a stipulated assessment grant, petroleum remediation grant, or low-interest loan.

Michigan
Brownfields are considered properties that are either contaminated, blighted or functionally obsolete. Brownfield redevelopment involves several different participants, starting with a property owner, developer, local brownfield redevelopment authority (BRA), local governmental agencies, councils, the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

The DEQ's Environmental Science and Services Division (ESSD) provides pollution prevention and technical assistance, information, education, grants and loans assistance, and laboratory services to further improve environmental quality. The ESSD emphasizes land use planning, "green" technology, including energy efficiency, pollution prevention, public infrastructure improvements, environmental restoration and protection, and compliance assistance.

When the Brownfield Redevelopment Financing Act was passed in September 1996, the one-of-a-kind law allowed municipalities to establish a brownfield redevelopment authority, adopt brownfield redevelopment financing plans, and capture incremental local and school property taxes from redeveloped contaminated properties to pay for the environmental costs associated with those properties.

Minnesota
Minnesota Brownfields is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting efforts that support and enhance the reuse and redevelopment of brownfields throughout the state of Minnesota by conducting research, sponsoring education and public policy forums, and establishing partnerships with both private and public organizations involved in the reuse or redevelopment of brownfields.

Minnesota Brownfields was established in April 2006 and aims to serve as an advocate to promote the voluntary investigation, cleanup and redevelopment of brownfield sites throughout the state by:

• facilitating interaction between interested parties, including property owners, government, community organizations, developers, attorneys, consultants and policy makers
• providing a venue/platform for the identification of brownfield redevelopment barriers and solutions
• if appropriate, taking title to property and acting as a conduit for obtaining local, state and federal sources of funding to be applied to the investigation, cleanup and redevelopment of brownfield sites.

Ohio
The Clean Ohio Fund helps restore, protect and connect Ohio's important natural and urban places by, among other activities, cleaning up brownfields to encourage redevelopment and revitalize communities. The Clean Ohio Fund consists of four competitive statewide programs: the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund, the Clean Ohio Agricultural Easement Purchase Program, the Clean Ohio Green Space Conservation Program, and the Clean Ohio Trails Fund.

In order to obtain Clean Ohio funding, a project must meet the definition of a brownfield. The project also must have suspected or identified contamination above an applicable standard which is regulated by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

Once a site has been designated a brownfield, the Clean Ohio Revitalization or Assistance Fund can provide grant money for various activities, including asbestos surveys, Phase II environmental assessments, demolition, removal of contaminated soil and groundwater, and a host of other remediation strategies.

Wisconsin
The state Dept. of Natural Resources's Remediation and Redevelopment program has a wide range of financial and liability tools available to assist local governments, businesses, lenders and others in cleaning up and redeveloping brownfields in Wisconsin. Staff in the DNR's Madison office and regional offices around the state are available to meet with community leaders, bankers, developers and private individuals to discuss their brownfield projects. The Wisconsin Brownfields Grant Program is administered by the state Department of Commerce.

The Brownfields Study Group, created by the state legislature in 1998, helps provide direction for the future of brownfields cleanup and redevelopment in Wisconsin. The Brownfields Study Group consists of state and local officials, private parties, consultants, environmental attorneys and academicians.

The Wisconsin DNR and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 have finalized a One Cleanup Program Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the two agencies. The memorandum is nationally significant in that it is the first EPA-state MOA to address cleanup requirements across several environmental media, including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, and Leaking Underground Storage Tanks.