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in the system, select ‘‘search,’’ then key 

in the appropriate docket ID number. 

IX. Submission to Congress and the 

Comptroller General 

Grant solicitations such as this are 

considered rules for the purpose of the 

Congressional Review Act (CRA). The 

CRA, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by 

the Small Business Regulatory 

Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 

(SBREFA), generally provides that 

before a rule may take effect, the agency 

promulgating the rule must submit a 

rule report, which includes a copy of 

the rule, to each House of the Congress 

and to the Comptroller General of the 

United States. EPA will submit a report 

containing this rule and other required 

information to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. 

House of Representatives, and the 

Comptroller General of the United 

States prior to publication of the rule in 

the Federal Register. This is not a 

‘‘major rule’’ as defined by 5 U.S.C. 

804(2).

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Grants, 

Lead, Lead-based paint, Maternal and 

child health.

Dated: November 24, 2004. 

Margaret Schneider, 

Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances.

[FR Doc. 04–26474 Filed 11–30–04; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[OPP–2004–0279; FRL–7684–9] 

National Agricultural Workers 

Pesticide Safety Training and 

Education Program; Notice of Funds 

Availability

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: EPA’s Office of Pesticide 

Programs (OPP) is soliciting proposals 

from eligible parties for an EPA 

cooperative agreement to provide 

financial assistance to an eligible 

organization to continue an effort to 

conduct a national train-the-trainer 

program to educate farmworkers about 

how to reduce risks from pesticides. As 

part of this program the grantee will 

train pesticide safety educators who will 

work with farmworker service 

organizations, growers, and other 

members of the agricultural community 

in key rural areas with high pesticide 

use and large numbers of farmworkers 

conducting pesticide safety programs for 

agricultural workers and their families. 

The total funding available for award in 

FY 2005, which represents funding set 

aside in FY 2004, is expected to be 

approximately $400,000. At the 

conclusion of the first 1 year period of 

performance and, based on the 

availability of future funding, 

incremental funding of up to $400,000 

may be made available for each year 

allowing the project to continue for a 

total of five periods of performance 

(approximately 5 years) and with a total 

potential funding of up to $2,000,000 for 

the 5–year period, depending on need 

and the Agency budget in outlying 

years.

DATES: Applications must be received 

on or before January 18, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Applications, may be 

submitted by mail, fax, or electronically. 

Please follow the detailed instructions 

provided in Unit IV. of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Carol Parker, Field and External Affairs 

Division (7506C), Office of Pesticide 

Programs, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone 

number: (703) 305–6458; fax number: 

(703) 308–2962; e-mail address: 

parker.carol@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following listing provides certain key 

information concerning the funding 

opportunity. 

• Federal agency name: 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA). 

• Funding opportunity title: National 

Agricultural Workers Pesticide Safety 

Training and Education Program. 

• Funding opportunity number: OPP–

001. 

• Announcement type: The initial 

announcement of a funding 

opportunity. 

• Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) number: This 

program is included in the Catalog of 

Federal Domestic Assistance under 

number 66.716 at http://www.cfda.gov/

public/whole.pdf. 

• Dates: Applications must be 

received by EPA on or before January 

18, 2005. 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

A. Authority 

EPA expects to enter into cooperative 

agreements under the authority 

provided in FIFRA section 20 which 

authorizes the Agency to issue grants or 

cooperative agreements for research, 

public education, training, monitoring, 

demonstration and studies. Regulations 

governing these cooperative agreements 

are found at 40 CFR part 30 for 

institutions of higher education, 

colleges and universities, and non-profit 

organizations; and 40 CFR part 31 for 

States and local governments. In 

addition, the provisions in 40 CFR part 

32, governing government wide 

debarment and suspension; and the 

provisions in 40 CFR part 34, regarding 

restrictions on lobbying apply. All costs 

incurred under this program must be 

allowable under the applicable OMB 

Cost Circulars: A-87 (States and local 

governments), A-122 (nonprofit 

organizations), or A-21 (universities). 

Copies of these circulars can be found 

at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/

circulars. In accordance with EPA 

policy and the OMB circulars, as 

appropriate, any recipient of funding 

must agree not to use assistance funds 

for lobbying, fund-raising, or political 

activities (e.g., lobbying members of 

Congress or lobbying for other Federal 

grants, cooperative agreements or 

contracts). See 40 CFR part 34. 

B. Program Description 

1. Purpose and scope. EPA’s 

Certification and Worker Protection 

Branch of the Field and External Affairs 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs 

(OPP), is requesting proposals to train 

farmworkers, farmworker families, and 

the agricultural community regarding 

the potential hazards associated with 

pesticide chemicals and how to reduce 

those risks. 

Under this new cooperative 

agreement, experience and/or expertise 

is critical to conduct worker protection 

pesticide safety training and education 

program for the unique population of 

farmworkers, including: A 

comprehensive, national training and 

outreach pesticide safety education 

program for farmworkers; an ability to 

conduct specialized training for Spanish 

speaking agricultural workers and their 

families with low literacy levels; 

qualified managers and staff devoted to 

training farmworkers about pesticide 

hazards; offices with pesticide safety 

programs and trainers in rural 

communities near agricultural areas 

with high farmworker populations; and 

full-time trainers whose primary 

responsibility is to train farmworkers 

about pesticide safety. 

2. Activities to be funded. EPA will 

award a cooperative agreement for the 

National Agricultural Workers Pesticide 

Safety Training and Education Program 

under section 20 of FIFRA, as amended, 

for the continuation of a public training 

and education pesticide safety program 

of farmworkers, farmworker families, 

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and other members of the agricultural 

community to reduce exposure to the 

hazards of pesticides. Key activities to 

be funded under this cooperative 

agreement are: 

i. Training of at least 14,000 

farmworkers, farmworker families, and 

other members of the agricultural 

community each year in the key 

pesticide safety provisions of the 

Worker Protection Standard (WPS), 40 

CFR 170.130. 

ii. Development or utilization of a 

pesticide safety training program, 

including trainers and materials, which 

address the predominately Spanish 

speaking, low literacy level needs of 

agricultural workers. 

iii. Development and/or utilization of 

WPS approved pesticide safety curricula 

and materials for agricultural workers. 

The curriculum and materials would 

convey as a minimum the following 

information: 

• Where and in what form pesticides 

may be encountered during work 

activities. 

• Hazards of pesticides resulting from 

toxicity and exposure, including acute 

and chronic effects, delayed effects, and 

sensitization. 

• Routes through which pesticides 

can enter the body. 

• Signs and symptoms of pesticide 

poisoning. 

• Emergency first aid for pesticide 

injuries or poisonings. 

• How to obtain emergency medical 

care. 

• Routine and emergency 

decontamination procedures, including 

eye flushing techniques. 

• Hazards from pesticide residues on 

clothing. 

• Warnings about taking pesticide 

containers home. 

• Requirements of the WPS, 

including reducing the risks of illness or 

injury resulting from workers’

occupational exposure to pesticides, 

including application and entry 

restrictions, the design of the warning 

sign, posting of warning signs, oral 

warnings, the availability of specific 

information about applications, and 

protection against retaliatory acts. 

iv. Conducting a national and/or 

several regional train-the-trainer 

workshops for a minimum of 30 

pesticide safety educators. Workshops 

would train trainers of farmworkers 

about the importance of pesticide safety, 

the curriculum and materials to be used, 

how to reach farmworkers and work 

with growers, crew leaders, and other 

members of the agricultural community 

to utilize the training, and how to get 

certified as an official trainer by the 

state. Workshops would also include 

practice sessions for trainers. 

v. Establishment of pesticide safety 

training programs in at least 15 local 

sites in rural areas with a minimum of 

12 states including key states with high 

farmworker populations and high 

pesticide usage. 

vi. Outreach and partnership 

programs with federal, state and local 

programs and agencies; farmworker 

service providers; growers and grower 

organizations; and other members of the 

agricultural community to utilize and 

certify the worker protection pesticide 

safety program for agricultural workers. 

While matching funds are not required, 

they are encouraged to meet the training 

needs of over 2c million farmworkers. 

vii. Develop or utilize a pesticide 

safety training evaluation tool like a preand post-tests to evaluate the 

effectiveness of the training program 

and modify the training to improve it as 

necessary. 

3. Goal and objectives. Under the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 

136W), EPA developed the WPS to 

protect the 2c million agricultural 

workers and other members of the 

public from the hazards of pesticides. 

Under this standard, workers must 

receive protections and information to 

prevent pesticide poisonings. Under this 

cooperative agreement, EPA seeks to 

work with organizations that have 

unique and special skills on reaching 

agricultural workers, who are 

predominately Spanish speaking, with 

low literacy levels, often transient, and 

difficult to reach through more 

conventional communications 

networks. 

The objectives of this program would 

be to develop or continue an interactive 

training program to educate 

farmworkers, their families, and other 

members of the agricultural community 

about how to protect themselves from 

pesticides. The training program would 

be based primarily in Spanish, although 

parts could include other key languages 

that farmworkers speak. Information 

would be presented in an interactive 

format directed at reaching low literacy 

populations and in non-traditional 

settings. The program should be 

developed to reach farmworkers in key 

high farmworker rural areas with high 

pesticide uses and high hand-labor 

agricultural areas. The pesticide safety 

training program for agricultural 

workers could develop new curriculum 

or utilize national, state or 

organizational outreach materials. The 

information to be conveyed should 

include the requirements outlined in the 

WPS (40 CFR part 170). 

4. History. In August of 1992, EPA’s 

WPS (40 CFR part 170) was published 

to require actions to reduce the risk of 

pesticide poisonings and injuries among 

agricultural workers and pesticide 

handlers. The WPS offers protections to 

more than 3c million agricultural 

workers who work with pesticides at 

more than 560,000 workplaces on farms, 

forests, nurseries, and greenhouses. The 

WPS contains requirements for 

pesticide safety training, notification of 

pesticide applications, use of personal 

protective equipment, restricted entry 

intervals following pesticide 

application, decontamination supplies, 

and emergency medical assistance. 

Since 1995, OPP has provided 

funding for several research and 

education programs designed to 

evaluate and convey pesticide safety 

information to farmworkers. Since 2000, 

OPP funded a cooperative agreement, 

The National Pesticide Education 

Program for Agricultural Workers and 

Farmworker Children, that trained fulltime educators to teach agricultural 

workers and their families how to 

reduce the risks from pesticide hazards. 

Through this program nearly 350,000 

farmworkers, farmworker families, and 

community members have been trained 

about how to reduce risks from 

pesticide hazards. This program has 

researched and evaluated methods for 

delivering pesticide safety information 

to a predominately non-English 

speaking, low literacy, migrant 

populations. The program developed a 

curriculum on pesticide safety and 

established a program on pesticide 

safety for agricultural workers, their 

families and community members. The 

program trained between 50 and 70 

educators yearly about pesticide safety, 

and education and outreach techniques, 

which in turn trained about 25,000 

farmworkers, farmworker families, and 

other members of the farmworker 

community each year. 

II. Award Information 

The funding for the selected award 

project is in the form of a cooperative 

agreement awarded under section 20 of 

FIFRA. The total funding available for 

award in FY 2005 represents funding set 

aside in FY 2004 and is expected to be 

approximately $400,000. At the 

conclusion of the first 1 year period of 

performance, incremental funding of up 

to $400,000 may be made available for 

each subsequent year, depending on 

need and the Agency budget in outlying 

years, which would allow the project to 

continue for a total of five periods of 

performance (approximately 5 years) 

and totaling up to $2,000,000 for the 5–

year period. 

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Should additional funding become 

available for award, based on the 

Agency budget in those outlying years, 

the Agency may award additional grants 

based on this solicitation and in 

accordance with the final selection 

process, without further notice of 

competition during the first year of the 

competition award. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Threshold eligibility factors. To be 

eligible for consideration, applicants 

must meet all of the following criteria. 

Failure to meet the following criteria 

will result in the automatic 

disqualification for consideration of the 

proposal for funding: 

i. Be an applicant who is eligible to 

receive funding under this 

announcement, including states, U.S. 

territories or possessions, federally 

recognized Tribal governments and 

organizations, public and private 

universities and colleges, hospitals, 

laboratories, other public or private 

nonprofit institutions and individuals. 

Non-profit organizations described in 

section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue 

Code that engage in lobbying activities 

as defined in section 3 of the Lobbying 

Disclosure Action of 1995 are not 

eligible to apply. Eligible applicants 

may include: Agricultural, 

environmental, health, and educational 

organizations and agencies, colleges or 

universities, and other public or nonprofit agencies, authorities, institutions, 

organizations, individuals or other 

qualified entities working in agricultural 

and/or pesticide training, safety, 

education and communications. 

Applicants with experience and/or 

expertise working with farmworkers; 

farmworker families; agricultural 

employers; farmworker support 

organizations; the Cooperative 

Extension Service; local state, and 

national agriculture, environment, labor 

and occupational health, rural and 

migrant health, and/or education 

agencies are eligible. 

ii. The proposal must address all of 

the criteria in the high priority areas for 

consideration listed under Unit III.2. 

iii. The proposal must address all of 

the activities to be funded listed under 

Unit I.B.2. 

iii. The proposal must meet all format 

and content requirements contained in 

Unit IV. 

The proposal must comply with the 

directions for submittal contained in 

this notice. 

2. Eligibility criteria. Applicants must 

demonstrate ability, experience and/or 

expertise in working with providing 

pesticide safety education to the unique 

population of farmworkers in the 

following high priority areas for 

consideration. Applicants will be 

evaluated on the following criteria: 

i. Expertise in language and literacy 

needs of farmworkers. Applicant must 

have expertise in providing education, 

training, and other services to the needs 

of the farmworker population. Since the 

farmworker population has an average 

educational levels of only the sixth 

grade, applicants must demonstrate 

expertise in reaching low literacy level 

populations. Also, since 84% of 

farmworkers speak Spanish, applicants 

must demonstrate an ability to present 

pesticide safety information in Spanish. 

ii. Ability to provide comprehensive 

pesticide safety program for 

farmworkers, farmworker families, and 

agricultural community members. 

Applicants must demonstrate the 

capacity of providing comprehensive 

worker training including key pesticide 

safety information, as outlined in the 

WPS, 40 CFR 170.130. 

iii. Extensive outreach strategies to 

farmworkers and rural communities. 

Applicants must develop extensive 

outreach strategies that include areas 

where farmworkers work and reside. 

Provisions to train farmworkers and 

their families in labor camps, work sites 

on growers’ property, in community 

centers, in churches, migrant health 

clinics, in schools, and farmworker 

employment and training offices. In 

addition, applicants must have the 

ability to conduct outreach programs 

with growers and small farmers and 

work with them to deliver pesticide 

training programs to their workers. 

iv. National network of offices in at 

least 15 agricultural areas with high 

farmworker populations in at least 12 

states. Since farmworkers live and work 

in hard to reach rural areas, applicants 

must describe how the training program 

would work with affiliate farmworker 

support offices in those 15 or more 

agricultural areas in close proximity to 

farmworkers in at least 12 states. 

v. Broad educational program with 

over 30 outreach trainers in pesticide 

safety. Applicants must demonstrate 

that they have experience conducting 

effective pesticide safety education and 

training for farmworkers and a 

comprehensive curriculum for reaching 

farmworkers about pesticide safety. 

Applicants must have a staff of at least 

30 full-time outreach workers whose 

main job is training farmworkers to 

prevent exposure to pesticides. 

vi. Ability to train a minimum of 

14,000 farmworkers each year about 

pesticide safety. Since there are 

approximately 2c million farmworkers 

and 20% of these are new workers who 

enter the U.S. agricultural workforce 

every year, the applicant must 

demonstrate the ability to train at least 

14,000 farmworkers a year about 

pesticide safety measures including 

minimum criteria outlined in the WPS, 

40 CFR 170.130. 

3. Cost sharing or matching. There are 

no cost share requirements for this 

project. However, matching funds are 

strongly encouraged in order to train the 

highest number of farmworkers. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to request proposal 

package. Carol Parker, Field and 

External Affairs Division (7506C), Office 

of Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460–

0001; telephone number: (703) 305–

6458; fax number: (703) 308–2962; email address: parker.carol@epa.gov. 

2. Content and form of application 

submission. Proposals must be 

typewritten, double spaced in 12 point 

or larger print using 8.5 x 11 inch paper 

with minimum 1 inch horizontal and 

vertical margins. Pages must be 

numbered in order starting with the 

cover page and continuing through the 

appendices. One original and one 

electronic copy (e-mail or disk) is 

required. 

All proposals must include: 

• Completed Standard Form SF 

424*, Application for Federal 

Assistance. Please include organization 

fax number and e-mail address. The 

application forms are available on line 

at http://www.epa.gov/ogd/grants/

how_to_apply.htm. 

• Completed Section B--Budget 

Categories, on page 1 of Standard Form 

SF 424A* (see allowable costs 

discussion below). Blank forms may be 

located at http://www.epa.gov/ogd/

grants/how_to_apply.htm. 

• Detailed itemization of the 

amounts budgeted by individual Object 

Class Categories (see allowable costs 

discussion below). 

• Statement regarding whether this 

proposal is a continuation of a 

previously funded project. If so, please 

provide the assistance number and 

status of the current grant/cooperative 

agreement. 

Executive Summary. The Executive 

Summary shall be a stand alone 

document, not to exceed one page, 

containing the specifics of what is 

proposed and what you expect to 

accomplish regarding measuring or 

movement toward achieving project 

goals. This summary should identify the 

measurable environmental results you 

expect including potential human 

health benefits. 

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Table of contents. A one page table 

listing the different parts of your 

proposal and the page number on which 

each part begins. Proposal narrative. 

Includes Parts I–V as identified below 

(not to exceed 10 pages). 

Part I--Project title. Self explanatory. 

Part II--Objectives. A numbered list (1, 

2, etc.) of concisely written project 

objectives, in most cases, each objective 

can be stated in a single sentence. 

Part III--Justification. For each 

objective listed in Part II, discuss the 

potential outcome in terms of human 

health, environmental and/or pesticide 

risk reduction. 

Part IV--Approach and methods. 

Describe in detail how the program will 

be carried out. Describe how the system 

or approach will support the program 

goals. 

Part V--Impact assessment. Please 

state how you will evaluate the success 

of the program in terms of measurable 

results. How and with what measures 

will humans be better protected as a 

result of the program. Quantifiable risk 

reduction measures should be 

described. 

Appendices. These appendices must 

be included in the cooperative 

agreement proposal. Additional 

appendices are not permitted. 

Timetable. A timetable that includes 

what will be accomplished under each 

of the objectives during the project and 

when completion of each objective is 

anticipated. 

Major participants. List all affiliates or 

other organizations, educators, trainers 

and others having a major role in the 

proposal. Provide name, organizational 

affiliation, or occupation and a 

description of the role each will play in 

the project. A brief resume (not to 

exceed two pages) should be submitted 

for each major project manager, 

educator, support staff, or other major 

participant. 

3. Submission dates and times. You 

may submit an application through the 

mail, by fax, or electronically. 

Regardless of submission method, all 

applications must be received by EPA 

on or before January 18, 2005. 

4. Intergovernmental Review. 

Applicants should be aware that formal 

requests for assistance (i.e., SF 424 and 

associated documentation) may be 

subject to intergovernmental review 

under Executive Order 12372, 

‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs.’’ Applicants should contact 

their state’s single point of contact 

(SOC) for further information. There is 

a list of these contacts at the following 

web site: http:/whitehouse.gov/omb/

grants/spoc.html. 

5. Funding restrictions. EPA grant 

funds may only be used for the purposes 

set forth in the cooperative agreement, 

and must be consistent with the 

statutory authority for the award. 

Cooperative agreement funds may not 

be used for matching funds for other 

Federal grants, lobbying, or intervention 

in Federal regulatory or adjudicatory 

proceedings. In addition, federal funds 

may not be used to sue the federal 

government or any other governmental 

entity. All costs identified in the budget 

must conform to applicable Federal Cost 

Principles contained in OMB Circular 

A-87; A-122; and A-21, as appropriate. 

6. Other submission requirements. As 

indicated above, each application must 

include the original paper copy of the 

submission, along with one electronic 

copy. The electronic copy of your 

application package, whether submitted 

separately by e-mail or on a disk, please 

ensure that the electronic copy is 

consolidated into a single file, and that 

you use Word Perfect WP8/9 for 

Windows, or Adobe PDF 4/5. If mailing 

a disk, please use a 3.5 disk that is 

labeled as a proposal for the National 

Agricultural Workers Pesticide Safety 

Training and Education Program, and 

include your pertinent information. 

Please check your electronic 

submissions to ensure that it does not 

contain any computer viruses. If an 

electronic submission is found to 

contain a virus, that submission will be 

disqualified from consideration. 

Submit your application using one of 

the following methods: 

By mail to: Carol Parker, Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Mail code: 7506C, 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

By fax to: Carol Parker at fax number: 

(703) 308–2962. 

By e-mail to: parker.carol@epa.gov. 

7. Confidential business information. 

Applicants should clearly mark 

information contained in their proposal 

which they consider confidential 

business information. EPA reserves the 

right to make final confidentiality 

decisions in accordance with Agency 

regulations at 40 CFR part 2, subpart B. 

If no such claim accompanies the 

proposal when it is received by EPA, it 

may be made available to the public by 

EPA without further notice to the 

applicant. 

V. Application Review Information 

Applicants will be screened to ensure 

that they meet all eligibility criteria and 

will be disqualified if they do not meet 

all eligibility criteria. All proposals will 

be reviewed, evaluated, and ranked by 

a selected panel of EPA reviewers based 

on the following evaluation criteria and 

weights (Total: 100 points): 

1. Project proposal must meet 

minimum requirements for the number 

of full-time trainers, number of 

locations, and number of workers 

trained, as outlined in Unit III.2. 

(Weighting: 35 points) 

2. Project proposal must provide 

information on the education, skills, 

training of the project leader and/or 

other key managers. As appropriate, cite 

technical qualifications and specific 

examples of prior, relevant experience. 

Demonstrate experience and/or ability 

of organization to conduct national 

pesticide safety education and training 

programs for agricultural workers as 

outlined in Unit III.2. (Weighting: 30 

points) 

3. Qualification and experience of the 

applicant relative to the language, low 

literacy, and outreach to the farmworker 

community, as outlined in Unit III.2. 

(Weighting: 25 points) 

4. Provisions for a quantitative or 

qualitative evaluation of the project 

success at achieving stated goals Unit 

III.2. (Weighting: 10 points) 

The proposals will be reviewed and 

evaluated by a team of internal EPA 

Worker Protection and Pesticide Safety 

Training experts. The final funding 

decision will be made from a group of 

top rated proposals by the Chief of the 

Certification and Worker Protection 

Branch, Field and External Affairs 

Division, Office of Pesticide Programs. 

The Agency reserves the right to reject 

all proposals and make no awards. The 

procedures for dispute resolution at 40 

CFR 30.63 and 40 CFR 31.70 apply. 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award notices. The Certification 

and Worker Protection Branch in OPP 

will mail an acknowledgment to 

applicants upon receipt of the 

application. Once all of the applications 

have been reviewed, evaluated, and 

ranked, applicants will be notified of 

the outcome of the competition. A 

listing of the successful proposal will be 

posted on the Certification and Worker 

Protection website address at the 

conclusion of the competition (go to: 

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health/

worker.htm). The website may also 

contain additional information about 

this announcement including 

information concerning deadline 

extensions or other modifications. 

2. Administrative and national policy 

requirements. An applicant whose 

proposal is selected for federal funding 

must complete additional forms prior to 

award (see 40 CFR 30.12 and 31.10), and 

will be required to certify that they have 

not been debarred or suspended from 

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participation in federal assistance 

awards in accordance with 40 CFR part 

32. 

3. Reporting. The successful recipient 

will be required to submit quarterly and 

annual reports, and to submit annual 

financial reports. The specific 

information contained within the report 

will include at a minimum, a 

comparison of actual accomplishments 

to the objectives established for the 

period. The Certification and Worker 

Protection Branch may request 

additional information relative to the 

scope of work in the cooperative 

agreement and which may be useful for 

Agency reporting under the Government 

Performance and Results Act. 

VII. Agency Contact 

Carol Parker, Field and External 

Affairs Division (7506C), Office of 

Pesticide Programs, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460–

0001; telephone number: (703) 305–

6458; fax number: (703) 308–2962; email address: parker.carol@epa.gov. 

VIII. Other Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general. Assistance is generally 

available to States, U. S. territories or 

possessions, federally recognized Tribal 

governments and organizations, public 

and private universities and colleges, 

hospitals, laboratories, other public or 

private nonprofit institutions and 

individuals. Non-profit organizations 

described in section 501(c)(4) of the 

Internal Revenue Code that engage in 

lobbying activities as defined in section 

3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Action of 

1995 are not eligible to apply. This 

program may, however, be of particular 

interest to farmworker and agricultural 

workers support organizations and 

agencies; environmental, health, and 

educational organizations and agencies; 

colleges or universities, and other 

public or non-profit agencies, 

authorities, institutions, organizations, 

individuals or other qualified entities 

working in agricultural training, safety, 

education and communications. 

Because others may also be interested, 

the Agency has not attempted to 

describe all the specific entities that 

may be interested by this action. If you 

have any questions regarding the 

applicability of this action to a 

particular entity, consult the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

B. How Can I Access Copies of this 

Document and Other Related 

Information? 

1. Docket. EPA has established an 

official public docket for this action 

under docket identification (ID) number 

OPP–2004–0279. The official public 

docket is the collection of materials that 

is available for public viewing at the 

Public Information and Records 

Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Rm. 119, 

Crystal Mall #2, 1801 S. Bell St., 

Arlington, VA. This docket facility is 

open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The docket telephone number 

is (703) 305–5805. 

2. Electronic access. You may access 

this Federal Register document 

electronically through the EPA Internet 

under the ‘‘Federal Register’’ listings at 

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/. An 

electronic version of the public docket 

is available through EPA’s electronic 

public docket and comment system, 

EPA Dockets. You may use EPA Dockets 

at http://www.epa.gov/edocket/ to 

access the index listing of the contents 

of the official public docket, and to 

access those documents in the public 

docket that are available electronically. 

Although not all docket materials may 

be available electronically, you may still 

access any of the publicly available 

docket materials through the docket 

facility identified in the Unit IV.A.1. 

Once in the system, select ‘‘search,’’

then key in the appropriate docket ID 

number. 

IX. Submission to Congress and the 

Comptroller General 

Grant solicitations such as this are 

considered rules for the purpose of the 

Congressional Review Act (CRA) (5 

U.S.C. 801 et seq.). The CRA generally 

provides that before a rule may take 

effect, the agency promulgating the rule 

must submit a rule report, which 

includes a copy of the rule, to each 

House of the Congress and to the 

Comptroller General of the United 

States. EPA will submit a report 

containing this grant solicitation and 

other required information to the U.S. 

Senate, the U.S. House of 

Representatives, and the Comptroller 

General of the United States prior to its 

publication in the Federal Register. 

This rule is not a ‘‘major rule’’ as 

defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2).

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Grants, 

Pesticides, Training.

Dated: November 18, 2004. 

Margaret Schneider, 

Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances.

[FR Doc. 04–26397 Filed 11–30–04; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–S

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7844–1] 

Jehl Cooperage Company Inc. 

Superfund Site; Notice of Settlement

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of settlement.

SUMMARY: Under section 122(h)(1) of the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation and Liability 

Act (CERCLA), the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) has entered 

into an Agreement for Recovery of Past 

Cost (Agreement) at the Jehl Cooperage 

Company Inc Superfund Site (Site) 

located in Memphis, Shelby County, 

Tennessee, with Unocal. EPA will 

consider public comments on the 

Agreement until January 3, 2005. EPA 

may withdraw from or modify the 

Agreement should such comments 

disclose facts or considerations which 

indicate the Agreement is inappropriate, 

improper, or inadequate. Copies of the 

Agreement are available from: Ms. Paula 

V. Batchelor, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Region 4, Superfund 

Enforcement & Information Management 

Branch, Waste Management Division, 61 

Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 

30303, (404) 562–8887. 

Written comment may be submitted to 

Paula V. Batchelor at the above address 

within 30 days of the date of 

publication.

Dated: November 16, 2004. 

Rosalind Brown, 

Chief, Superfund Enforcement & Information 

Management Branch.

[FR Doc. 04–26478 Filed 11–30–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7844–2] 

Middlesboro, Tannery Superfund Site; 

Notice of Proposed Settlement

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement.

SUMMARY: Under section 122h(h)(1) of 

the Comprehensive Environmental