PRIA 5: Farm Worker and Health Care Provider Training and Education Grants

Grants are awarded to support education, outreach, training, and technical assistance to farm workers on how to prevent or mitigate pesticide-related illness and injury; to health care providers on recognizing and treating pesticide-related illness a

The programs in this assistance listing aim to protect the public, people who work occupationally with and around pesticides, and the environment, from potential illness and injury that may occur from unreasonable exposure to pesticides. To achieve the objectives of this program, grants or cooperative agreements will be awarded to provide financial assistance to eligible entities to support training, education, technical assistance, and outreach activities for farm workers, pesticide handlers, health care providers, and recipients or applicants of these grants to carry out these tasks.

For certain competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing, the Agency may limit eligibility to complete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency's Assistance Agreement Competition Policy. For example, PRIA 5 limits funding for these projects: 1. Farm worker training. Financial assistance agreements awarded for farm worker education and training on pesticide safety and the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard at 40 CFR part 170 are limited to community-based nonprofit farm worker organizations (CBNFWO). For this opportunity, a CBNFWO is defined as a public or private nonprofit organization that supports and/or represents the farm worker community through engagement, education, and other related services provided to individual community residents and community stakeholders. A "community" can be characterized by a particular geographic area and/or by the relationships among members with similar interests, and can be characterized as part of a broader national or regional community where organizations can be focused on the needs of farm workers. The CBNFWO must have demonstrated experience in training and educating, or developing informational materials for, farm workers or handlers of pesticides. 2. Health care provider education. Financial assistance agreements awarded for technical assistance, training, and education of health care providers (HCPs) on the recognition and management of pesticide poisonings are limited to nonprofit organizations with demonstrated experience in providing technical assistance and training to HCPs who serve farm worker populations. 3. Technical assistance to grantees. Financial assistance agreements awarded to provide easily accessible technical assistance to grant recipients or applicants on the grant application process, drafting grant applications, and compliance with grant management and reporting requirements are limited to nonprofit organizations with experience providing technical assistance to farm worker or clinician-training organizations. Nonprofit Organizations with the demonstrated experience in providing technical assistance and training to health care providers who serve farm worker populations may apply for grants as a partnership with another nonprofit organization, provided such organizations, at the time of application, have entered into an agreement designating: (I) a member of the partnership that will enter into the assistance agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency for the purposes of accountability for the proper expenditure of Federal funds; (II) performance of the assistance agreement; (III) liability for claims for recovery of unallowable costs incurred under the agreement; and (IV) roles in performing the proposed scope of work for the assistance agreement.

Public nonprofit institution/organization, Other public institution/organization, Minority group, Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans), Private nonprofit institution/organization

Grants and cooperative agreements are available to support recipients' allowable direct costs incident to approved cooperative agreements plus allowable indirect costs, in accordance with established EPA policies and regulations. This program makes Federal awards on a discretionary basis. A discretionary award means an award in which the Federal awarding agency, in keeping with specific statutory authority that enables the agency to exercise judgment ("discretion"), selects the recipient and/or the amount of Federal funding awarded through a competitive process or based on the merit of proposals.

EPA normally funds grants and cooperative agreements on a 12-month basis. However, EPA can negotiate the project period with each applicant based on project requirements.

Regarding pre-application assistance with respect to competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing, EPA will generally specify the nature of the pre-application assistance, if any, that will be available to applicants in the NOFO. For additional information, contact the individual(s) listed in the NOFO.

The evaluation and selection criteria for competitive awards under this assistance listing will be described in the NOFO.

For competitive awards, EPA will review and evaluate applications in accordance with the terms, conditions, and criteria stated in the NOFO. Competitions will be conducted in accordance with EPA policies/regulations for competing assistance agreements. EPA may use a pass-through entity to design and build processes to receive and evaluate competitive applications, separate from the federal grant application process. There will be a streamlined process for competitively selecting and awarding subawards, as well as managing these transactions in compliance with regulatory requirements. Subawards must be consistent with the definition of that term in 2 CFR 200.1 and comply with EPA's Subaward Policy found at: https://www.epa.gov/grants/grants-policy-issuance-gpi-16-01-epa-subaward-policy-epa-assistance-agreement-recipients.

For competitive awards, deadlines will be specified in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).

Approximately 180 days after the deadline for application submission.

Assistance agreement competition-related disputes will be resolved in accordance with the dispute resolution procedures published in 70 FR (Federal Register) 3629, 3630 (January 26, 2005). Copies of these procedures may also be found at: https://www.epa.gov/grants/grant-competition-dispute-resolution-procedures. Disputes relating to matters other than the competitive selection of recipients will be resolved under 2 CFR 1500 Subpart E, as applicable.