Pesticide Safety Program for Agricultural Workers and Farmworker Children; Request for Applications (RFA)

Post Date

February 18th 2010

Application Due Date

April 5th 2010

Please refer to the full announcement, including Section IV, for additional information on submission methods and due dates.

Funding Opportunity Number

EPA-OPP-2010-001

CFDA Number(s)

66.716

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement
Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Environment

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

State Governments
County Governments
City or Township Governments
Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
Federally Recognized Native American Tribal Governments
Private Institutions of Higher Education
Individuals
Other

See Section III of the anouncement for additional eligibility information.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $1950000

• Award Range:

  $None - $None

Grant Description

EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is soliciting proposals from eligible parties for an EPA cooperative agreement to provide financial assistance to an eligible organization for an education and training pesticide safety program aimed at reducing exposure to pesticides for agricultural workers, their families and the agricultural community. The grantee will conduct a national train-the-trainer program to educate Farmworkers about how to reduce risks from pesticides. As part of this program, the grantee will also train pesticide safety educators who will work with farmworker service organizations, growers and other members of the agricultural community in key rural areas with high pesticide use and large numbers of farmworkers to conduct interactive pesticide safety programs for agricultural workers and their families. The grantee may utilize existing worker protection and children protection pesticide safety training materials or may develop new and/or improved materials to address pesticide safety issues for farmworkers and farmworker children. Written materials need to be targeted at the low literacy, predominately Spanish speaking agricultural worker population. This will be a five year cooperative agreement, with an estimated total of $1,950,000. Approximately, $350,000 is expected to be available in FY 2010. At the conclusion of the first year, incremental funding of approximately $400,000 may be made available, depending on the Agency's budget in outlying years.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Environmental Protection Agency

• Office:

  None

• Agency Contact:

  Carol Parker, 703-305-6458.

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Carol Parker

• Agency Email Address:

  parker.carol@epa.gov

• More Information:

  Pesticide Safety Program for Agricultural Workers and Farmworker Children; Request for Applications (RFA)