How have the job training guidelines changed since the Fiscal Year 2006 competition?
A. For the Fiscal Year 2007 brownfields job training grant competition, please be aware that changes have been made in the application guidelines. The FY 2006 job training guidelines are no longer valid. EPA has made some changes in the formatting of the guidelines. Please pay careful attention to Section 4 of the Guidelines “Application and Submission Information.” However, the threshold and ranking evaluation criteria remain largely the same as last year. Some of the ranking evaluation criteria have changed in minor ways and the Agency has assigned points to sub-factors under each ranking evaluation criterion. In FY 2007, applicants who received brownfields job training grants in or before FY 2005 are eligible to apply for funding. In the past, the EPA has limited eligibility to those applicants who received funding in the past two years. However, in FY 2007, this limitation has only been placed on applicants who received funding in the past year (FY 2006). A list of brownfields job
