---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9660a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9660a"
heading: "Grant program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9660a"
units:
  - "Chapter 103 — Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability"
  - "Subchapter III — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §9660a. Grant program

- (1) **Grant purposes—** Grants for the training and education of workers who are or may be engaged in activities related to [hazardous waste](/usc/42/9601.md?p=29) [removal](/usc/42/9601.md?p=23) or containment or emergency [response](/usc/42/9601.md?p=25) may be made under this section.
- (2) **Administration—** Grants under this section shall be administered by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
- (3) **Grant recipients—** Grants shall be awarded to [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) organizations which demonstrate experience in implementing and operating worker health and safety training and education programs and demonstrate the ability to reach and involve in training programs target populations of workers who are or will be engaged in [hazardous waste](/usc/42/9601.md?p=29) [removal](/usc/42/9601.md?p=23) or containment or emergency [response](/usc/42/9601.md?p=25) operations.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–499, title I, § 126(g), Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1692.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, and not as part of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.