EPA: Brownfields Job Training Grants

Funds and Number of Awards Available: Estimated total program funding is $5 million for 10 awards. The award ceiling is $500,000.

Eligible Applicants: Applications will be accepted from eligible government entitiies and eligible nonprofit organizations, including Workforce Investment Boards.

Description: Funds are available to to provide environmental job training projects that will promote job creation and economic development by facilitating the assessment, remediation, or preparation of brownfields sites. Eligible applicants must identify and propose to serve a community that currently receives, or has received, financial assistance (federal, state, or tribal) for brownfields assessment, revolving loan fund, cleanup, site-specific work carried out by state or tribal response programs, and/or targeted brownfields assessments performed directly by EPA.

Details: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Brownfields Job Training Grants. EPA-ARRA–OSWER-OBLR-JT.

Deadline: April 20, 2009.