The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking applications for its Pesticide Regulatory Education Program.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/15/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
In accordance with Assistance Listing, the cooperative agreement awarded under this program is intended to provide pesticide educational training to managers and senior staff of states, Tribes, and U.S. territories working under FIFRA Cooperative Agreements, to develop or enhance their ability to formulate and implement pesticide regulatory programs, and/or undertake new initiatives.
Objectives
Applicants must demonstrate in their application how their project will address the following objectives:
- Provide a set of four high quality training courses annually to pesticide managers and senior staff of states, Tribes and U.S. territories working under FIFRA Cooperative Agreements. Topics will be selected by a PREP Steering Committee and cover a wide variety of pesticide issues. Each course should consist of four meeting days and educate up to 25 participants.
- Foster the building of networks and collaborative relationships among states, Tribes, U.S. territories, the EPA and other federal and state agencies, to more effectively utilize limited resources aimed at implementing pesticide regulatory programs.
- Provide a forum to learn about emerging pesticide issues that impact state, Tribal and US territory programs, and share effective strategies.
- Quantitatively and qualitatively measure the success of the training provided according to training recipients to improve future programs.
- Develop and make available alternate training tools, such as web-based training, specific videorecorded PREP sessions, etc.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $3,000,000
Project Period
5 years
Eligibility Criteria
EPA is soliciting applications from the following eligible entities to submit applications under this announcement: any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Native American Organizations, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any agency or instrumentally thereof exclusive of local governments (includes public institutions of higher education and hospitals).
Note: Native American Organizations include Indian groups, cooperatives, corporations, partnerships, associations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
