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Opportunity Summary:

The Hazardous Materials Worker Health and Safety Training (U45) grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number RFA-ES-09-004) is a National Institutes of Health program run through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). It focuses on building and delivering high-quality, real-world training and education for workers who face hazardous materials on the job. The core idea is practical prevention: reducing injuries, illnesses, and other work-related harm by teaching workers how to protect themselves and the people around them when dealing with hazardous substances during hazardous waste operations, hazardous materials transportation, environmental cleanup and restoration, and chemical emergency response.

This opportunity sits within NIEHSs Worker Education and Training Program (WETP), which has an emphasis on creating model training programs that can be replicated or adapted across industries and regions. The training needs described in the announcement reflect the reality of many hazardous work sites: they can involve multiple dangerous substances at once, sometimes including unknown chemicals, and conditions may be uncontrolled or unstable. Because of that, the program is oriented toward preparing workers for complex, high-risk environments such as chemical waste cleanup and remedial action sites, as well as transportation-related chemical emergencies where rapid, informed response can make the difference between a contained incident and broader community exposure.

The funding mechanism is a U45 Cooperative Agreement, meaning awardees should expect substantial involvement from NIEHS compared with a standard grant. In practice, cooperative agreements generally involve ongoing coordination with the agency on program goals, progress, and performance expectations, reflecting that NIEHS is not only funding training but also shaping the development of strong, standardized models and institutional capacity. A central objective is to strengthen organizations ability to deliver appropriate hazardous materials health and safety training over time, not just to run a short-lived set of classes.

NIEHS projected approximately $26,000,000 in total funding for FY 2010 to support an anticipated 15 to 20 awards. Awards were planned for a 5-year project period. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement listed, which lowers the financial barrier for eligible organizations that may have strong training capacity but limited unrestricted funds.

Eligibility is broad and includes private institutions of higher education, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status other than institutions of higher education. The announcement also explicitly notes eligibility for several institution types that often serve specific communities, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), and Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions. The activity category is Environment/Health, and the associated CFDA number is 93.142 (NIEHS Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety Training).

Key dates in the posting show it was posted July 9, 2009, with an original and current closing date of November 23, 2009, and an archive date of December 24, 2009. NIEHS also scheduled an Applicant Information Meeting for Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at NIEHS to share additional details about the FOA and the broader WETP framework, signaling that program alignment and understanding NIEHS expectations were important parts of a competitive application.

For applicants or stakeholders looking for the full text and requirements, the FOA provided an additional information link through the NIH grants guide (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-09-004.html) and pointed technical access questions to the NIH Office of Extramural Research webmaster contact.

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