Recovery Act: EPA Announces Funding to Support Additional Brownfields Job Training Grants; Full RFA Available Shortly
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the availability of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds and its itent to solicit applications from eligible governmental entities and non-profit organizations 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.
EPA is soliciting applications for projects that can be started expeditiously by applicants who can demonstrate the ability to contribute to economic recovery through the creation and/or preservation of jobs.
EPA has identified $5,000,000 in program funding and anticipates 10 awards.
EPA expects the full RFA to be posted by March 19, 2009.
Synopsis / Link to RFA Announcement Site.
