The Environmental Protection Agency is soliciting applications from eligible entities, including nonprofit organizations, to deliver Brownfields Job Training programs that recruit, train, and place local, unemployed, and under-employed residents with the skills needed to secure full-time employment in the environmental field.
Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/26/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
Brownfields Job Training Grants fund programs that provide program graduates with the skills and 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.
Grant Period
5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Unit of Local Government.
- 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.
- Federally recognized Indian Tribe other than in Alaska.
- Alaskan Native Regional Corporation, Alaska Native Village Corporation, and the Metlakatla Indian Community.
- Nonprofit organizations.
- Eligible participants for Brownfields Job Training must be 18 years of age or older at the time of graduation to be placed into an environmental-related job, as the Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits youth under the age of 18 from being employed in hazardous occupations. Additionally, a Brownfields Job Training participant must be a U.S. Citizen and/or Green Card holder permanently residing in the United States and/or its territories.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
