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EPA-R-OW-OWM-23-02: Innovative Water Infrastructure Workforce Development Grant Program

Closed Closed November 17, 2023 Opportunity EPA-R-OW-OWM-23-02 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. Who won this program's grants before is below, and similar open grants are at the end of the page. It is in our archive of Environmental Protection Agency notices from 2023.

• Award ceiling$1.0 million
• Total funding$20.8 million
• Expected awards20
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Please see Section III of the funding opportunity announcement for eligibility information.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Most of the money in the 2 programs behind this notice (55% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The nation has made significant progress in addressing environmental and public health needs over the past fifty years, but more remains to be done. To further the goal of ensuring a strong pipeline of skilled and diverse workers in the water utilities sector, Congress, under the American Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, authorized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop a grant program under Section 1459E of the Safe Drinking Water Act, to accelerate career pipelines in the water utilities sector and provide access to water utility workforce opportunities. In addition, under Clean Air Act Section 138(b)(2), which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Congress authorized EPA to award grants for workforce development activities that help reduce green-house gas emissions and other air pollutants that benefit disadvantaged communities as defined by the EPA Administrator and we are soliciting projects for this under project area 6 in Section I.C. of this Request for Applications (RFA). Through this grant program, EPA is soliciting applications from eligible applicants as described in Section III.A of the RFA to assist in the development and utilization of innovative activities relating to workforce development and career opportunities in the water utility sector, which may include: (A) expanding the use and availability of activities and resources that relate to the recruitment, including the promotion of diversity within that recruitment, of individuals to careers in the drinking water and wastewater utility sector, including stormwater; (B) expanding the availability of training opportunities for (i) individuals entering the water and wastewater utility sector; and (ii) individuals seeking to advance careers within the water and wastewater utility sector; (C) expanding the use and availability of activities and strategies, including the development of innovative activities and strategies, that relate to the maintenance and retention of a sustainable workforce in the water and wastewater utility sector; and (D) expanding the availability of workforce development and training that enables drinking water and wastewater utility workers to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other air pollutants to benefit disadvantaged communities.

Category: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

Applying now

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