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FY27 Brownfields Job Training (JT) Grants

Environmental Protection Agency · Opportunity EPA-OLEM-OBLR-26-01

Deadline September 23, 2026 14 days left
Award range Up to $300k
Total program funding $6M

≈ 20 awards expected

PostedJuly 17, 2026

Who can apply

See section 2 of the full funding opportunity for eligibility requirements.

About this opportunity

This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits applications from eligible entities to deliver Brownfields Job Training programs that recruit, train, and place local, unemployed, and underemployed residents with the skills needed to secure full-time employment in the environmental field.Brownfields Job Training Grants fund training programs that strengthen local workforces by preparing program graduates for environmental jobs that support cleanup and revitalization efforts in their own communities.Training may include a range of brownfield-related environmental skills such as the assessment and cleanup of solid and hazardous waste; chemical risk management; stormwater management relating to site cleanup; planning and site preparation for low-impact development activities; site preparation for green infrastructure installation; and vulnerability assessment and contamination mitigation planning.Please carefully review Section 4.E. of these guidelines, Section IV of EPA NOFO Clauses, and the Frequently Asked Questions, which can be found at https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/frequently-asked-questions-about-brownfields-job-training-jt-grants. A checklist of required application forms and documents is in Section 4.A.For the purposes of these guidelines, the term “grant” refers to the cooperative agreement that EPA will award to a successful applicant. In this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), “Project” refers to the applicant’s proposed Brownfields Job Training effort to be funded under this competition. Unless otherwise noted, “training program” is used synonymously with “project.”

Award history — Brownfields Job Training Cooperative Agreements (Assistance Listing 66.815)

This program made 14 new awards in FY2025.

New awards by fiscal year ’21: 17 · ’22: 17 · ’23: 27 · ’24: 17 · ’25: 14
Award size (min / median / max) $132k / $500k / $500k

Across the 92 most recent awards. Total obligations, not per-year.

Repeat winners 26 of 66 recipients won more than once

New awards recorded on USAspending.gov under the federal program that funds this opportunity. FY2025 figures may still be incomplete. Environmental Protection Agency does not publish how many applications it receives, so a true success rate cannot be computed for this program — no one can honestly sell you that number.

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