Opportunity Information: Apply for EPA OCSPP OPP 2024 006
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is offering a discretionary funding opportunity called the Farmworker Training and Education Program for Pesticide Safety (Funding Opportunity Number: EPA OCSPP OPP 2024 006; CFDA: 66.720). The program will be funded through cooperative agreements, meaning the EPA expects to have an active partnership role with the awardees rather than simply issuing a hands-off grant. The overall purpose is to strengthen farmworker communities' understanding of the Worker Protection Standard (WPS), agricultural pesticide safety practices, and related workplace rights. The work supported under this NOFO is centered on training, developing training content and educational materials, and conducting outreach that helps farmworkers and handlers better understand protections and safe practices when working around pesticides.
A key emphasis of the opportunity is direct involvement of farmworker communities and farmworker-serving organizations in designing and delivering the training and outreach. The EPA is signaling that culturally appropriate, community-informed approaches are expected, with the goal of making materials more relevant, more accessible (including language and literacy considerations), and ultimately more effective in real-world settings. In practical terms, applicants should be prepared to show how they will meaningfully engage farmworkers and trusted community organizations in planning, testing, refining, and distributing training and communication tools.
The NOFO offers two distinct award types. Type 1 is designed for national-scale training across many rural areas, states, and territories. This track focuses specifically on the required WPS training for agricultural workers and pesticide handlers, including the EPA-approved trainings that meet federal requirements. The intent is to ensure consistent, compliant instruction that improves understanding of WPS protections and safe pesticide-related behaviors for those most directly exposed in agricultural work.
Type 2 is structured as a subaward program. Under this model, the main recipient would not be delivering all education and outreach directly; instead, they would manage and distribute funding to other organizations that carry out local or regional projects. These projects must focus on agricultural pesticide safety topics that supplement or reinforce WPS requirements, such as additional education, practical risk-reduction strategies, rights awareness, and community outreach that strengthens understanding beyond baseline compliance training. Because these activities are local and regional, this track is intended to support tailored approaches that reflect the needs, crops, practices, and demographics of specific areas or parts of the country.
The EPA anticipates making 2 awards total, with an award ceiling of $3,800,000. The original application closing date is December 19, 2024, and the opportunity was created on September 27, 2024. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," but applicants are directed to review Section III of the NOFO for the official eligibility rules and any specific constraints on who may apply, particularly given the cooperative agreement structure and, for Type 2, the added responsibility of administering subawards.Apply for EPA OCSPP OPP 2024 006
- The Environmental Protection Agency in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Farmworker Training and Education Program for Pesticide Safety" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 66.720.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-09-27.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-12-19. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,800,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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