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NIEHS Hazardous Waste Worker Health and Safety Training

Program Information

Popular name

Superfund Worker Training Program (WTP)

Program Number

93.142

Program objective

To provide cooperative agreements and project grant support for the development and administration of model worker health and safety training programs consisting of classroom, online, and practical health and safety training of workers and their supervisors, who are engaged in activities related to hazardous materials, hazardous waste generation, treatment, storage, disposal, removal, containment, transportation, or emergency response. To assist organizations in the development of institutional competency to provide appropriate training and education to hazardous waste workers.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    WETP will continue to provide occupational safety and health education in developing and delivering high quality training to workers who are involved in handling hazardous waste or in responding to emergency releases of hazardous materials. Fiscal Year 2016: Supported the training and education of 134,000 workers engaged in activities related to hazardous materials and waste generation, removal, containment, transportation, and emergency response.

  2. 2018

    Funded awardee information is available at the following website: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/careers/hazmat/awardees/index.cfm.

  3. 2023

    WTP will continue to provide occupational safety and health education in developing and delivering high quality training to workers who are involved in handling hazardous waste or in responding to emergency releases of hazardous materials.

  4. 2024

    WTP will continue to provide occupational safety and health education in developing and delivering high quality training to workers who are involved in handling hazardous waste or in responding to emergency releases of hazardous materials.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

42 CFR 52; 45 CFR 75; 45 CFR 92; NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts; NIH Grants Policy Statement October 1, 2012. Other publications, information, and applications and kits are available from the Office of Extramural Research, Outreach and Activities Resources, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, and the NIEHS (MD EC-22), P.O. Box 12233, 111 Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.

  1. Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, as amended, Title I, Section 126, Public Law 99-499; Public Health Service Act, Section 405(b)(1)(C), as amended, Public Law 99-158.

Program details

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Local
  • Native American Organizations
  • Other private institution/organization
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Profit organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Small business
  • Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans)
  • State
  • U.S. Territories

Additional resources