---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2656"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2656"
heading: "Training grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2656"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Toxic Substances Control"
  - "Subchapter II — Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response"
---

# §2656. Training grants

- (a) **Grants—** The [Administrator](/usc/15/2642.md?p=2) is authorized to award grants under this section to nonprofit organizations that demonstrate experience in implementing and operating health and safety [asbestos](/usc/15/2642.md?p=3) training and education programs for workers who are or will be engaged in [asbestos](/usc/15/2642.md?p=3)-related activities (including [State](/usc/15/2642.md?p=14) and [local governments](/usc/15/34.md?p=1), colleges and universities, joint labor-management trust funds, and nonprofit government employee organizations) to establish and, or, operate [asbestos](/usc/15/2642.md?p=3) training programs on a not-for-profit basis. Applications for grants under this subsection shall be submitted in such form and manner, and contain such information, as the [Administrator](/usc/15/2642.md?p=2) prescribes.
- (b) **Authorization—** Of such sums as are authorized to be appropriated pursuant to [section 4021(a) of title 20](/usc/20/4021.md?p=a) for the fiscal years 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995, not more than $5,000,000 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section in each such fiscal year.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–469, title II, § 216, as added Pub. L. 101–637, § 16(a)(1), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4597.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 101–637, § 16(b), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4598, provided that: “Section 216 of the Toxic Substances Control Act [this section], as added by subsection (a), shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 28, 1990].”