What is a technical assistance grant?
A Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) helps communities participate in Superfund cleanup decision-making. It provides funding to community groups to contract their own technical advisor to interpret and explain technical reports, site conditions, and EPA’s proposed cleanup proposals and decisions.
What are technical assistance services?
Technical assistance means services provided to the public for the development of skills or the provision of knowledge relative to the background, significance, operation, or implications of some aspect of the historic preservation program.
What is the main goal of the EPA?
The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.
What is EPA cleanup?
EPA and its state and territorial partners have developed a variety of cleanup programs to assess and, where necessary, clean up these contaminated sites. Cleanups may be done by EPA, other federal agencies, states or municipalities, or the company or party responsible for the contamination.
What is small business technical assistance?
The grants are awarded to community development corporations, chambers of commerce, and similar non-profits. They use the funds to provide crucial services, such as technical assistance, training in business skills, and access to financing, to their local businesses.
What are examples of technical assistance?
Examples of technical assistance areas include:
- Program assessments, reviews and evaluation.
- Curriculum development.
- Training methodologies and materials development.
- Community needs assessments.
- Grant writing.
- Program development and implementation.
- Tribal, organizational and community strategic planning.
What is the EPA Superfund?
EPA’s Superfund program is responsible for cleaning up some of the nation’s most contaminated land and responding to environmental emergencies, oil spills and natural disasters.
What are the three types of business assistance that are targeted towards small and medium sized businesses?
Three types of business assistance (other than tax incentives, which are discussed separately) are typically targeted toward small and medium-sized businesses: general business support, financing, and state procurement programs.