# HAZMAT Training at DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex

> **NIH NIH UH4** · NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP/ENVIRONMNTL/TECH/ED · 2020 · $938,661

## Abstract

The Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (PETE) submits
this proposal on behalf of the Community College for Health and Safety Training
(CCCHST) serving Department of Energy (DOE) environmental restoration and waste
management sites at: Oak Ridge Operations, TN; Portsmouth Site, OH; Savannah River
Site, SC; Pantex, TX and Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM.
 The intent of CCCHST-DOE is to provide convenient, consistent, memorable, and
cost-effective 29 CFR 1910.120 worker training to DOE contractors and subcontractors.
Workers gain the knowledge and skills to protect themselves and their communities
from exposure to hazardous materials during hazardous waste operations, facility
decommissioning and decontamination, hazardous materials transportation,
environmental restoration of contaminated facilities or chemical emergency response.
 Over the five-year award, CCCHST members including the University of
Tennessee, Amarillo Community College, Roane State Community College, Greenville
Technical College, and Santa Fe Community College will train 35,000, workers,
technicians and supervisors, through 250,000 contact hours of training, to protect
themselves, their facilities, and their communities from exposure to hazardous materials
encountered during hazardous waste site clean-up, in the transportation of hazardous
materials, and in the response to releases of hazardous materials. Each year, 7,000
workers will successfully complete 400 courses for a total 50,000 contact hours of
training. Annually, an average 75 courses will be delivered online.
PETE will provide hazardous materials curriculum, developed by HMTRI and
adapted and maintained by PETE. PETE will provide students online access to
curriculum for 24 hours of the 40-hour HazWoper and 8-hour Refreshers. PETE will
also support other DOE-approved curriculum requested by the DOE facilities.
 PETE will provide centralized record keeping and quality control for the
consortium, submitting to the NIEHS data management system the number of students
trained at CCCHST-DOE sites and their demographic data, registering curricula with the
NIEHS Clearinghouse, providing technical assistance, conducting site audits, reviewing
student evaluations, acting upon the guidance of the advisory committee, and mediating
the delivery of training with other NIEHS-supported consortia.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10058601
- **Project number:** 2UH4ES019338-11
- **Recipient organization:** NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP/ENVIRONMNTL/TECH/ED
- **Principal Investigator:** Margaret Mellecker
- **Activity code:** UH4 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $938,661
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2010-09-15 → 2025-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10058601

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10058601, HAZMAT Training at DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex (2UH4ES019338-11). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10058601. Licensed CC0.

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