Purpose 

• This funding is intended to equip individuals with the skills needed to obtain full-time, sustainable employment. This program promotes the facilitation of activities related to assessment, cleanup, or preparation of contaminated sites, including brownfields, for reuse, while simultaneously building a local workforce with the skills needed to perform remediation work that is supportive of environmental protection and environmental health and safety.
• Brownfields Job Training Grants fund training programs that provide program graduates with the opportunity to seek and obtain environmental jobs that contractors may otherwise fill from outside the affected community. Brownfields Job Training Grants help residents take advantage of jobs across a spectrum of brownfield-related activities, including the assessment, cleanup, remediation, and planning/site preparation for the revitalization of brownfields. This can involve the assessment and cleanup of solid and hazardous waste; chemical risk management; stormwater management relating to site cleanup; planning and site preparation for low-impact development activities; site preparation for green infrastructure installation; and vulnerability assessment and contamination mitigation planning.

Funding Information

• Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 14,000,000
• Award Ceiling: $500,000

Duration

• Awards funded under this opportunity are expected to have up to a 5-year project period.

Eligibility Criteria

• Only these types of organizations may apply:
  • Land Clearance Authority or other quasi-governmental entity that operates under the supervision and control of, or as an agent of, a general-purpose unit of local government.
  • Government entity created by State Legislature.
  • Regional Council or group of General-Purpose Units of Local Government.
  • Redevelopment Agency that is chartered or otherwise sanctioned by a State.
  • State.
  • Federally recognized Indian Tribe other than in Alaska. (The exclusion of Tribes in Alaska, with the exception of the Metlakatla Indian Community as noted below, from grant eligibility is statutory at CERCLA §104(k)(1)(G)). Intertribal Consortia are eligible for funding in accordance with EPA’s policy for funding intertribal consortia published in the Federal Register on November 4, 2002, at 67 Fed. Reg. 67181.
  • Alaskan Native Regional Corporation, Alaska Native Village Corporation, and the Metlakatla Indian Community.
  • Nonprofit organizations.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.

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