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 and injury; and to organizations to give technical assistance to grant recipients or applicants of such grants. Measures may include an increase in awareness of how to minimize, prevent, or mitigate occupational exposure to pesticides, and treat pesticide-related illness and injury; the number of and/or reach of projects on the safe use of pesticides by agricultural pesticide handlers; and awareness and reach of technical assistance to the public on information about pesticides, their uses, risks, and reporting exposures. In FY 2026, priorities will continue to include: training and educating farm workers with respect to farm workers' rights relating to pesticide safety and on the agricultural Worker Protection Standard (WPS) regulation at 40 CFR part 170; developing new informational materials, training modules, and innovative delivery methods for both; developing informational materials and providing technical assistance and training to health care providers on the recognition, treatment, and management of pesticide-related injuries and illnesses.

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

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.

Approximately 180 days after the deadline for application submission.