Apply now for CHEMTREC HELP Award

June 23, 2025

Our friends at CHEMTREC are assisting volunteer and combination departments enhance their response capabilities and increase local preparedness to respond to and prepare for hazardous materials incidents by awarding six departments its HELP award worth $10,000.

Eligibility requirements are:

• The fire department must be a local or state volunteer, career, or combination fire department. 
• Be in the United States and legally organized under state law. Tribal entities servicing a tribe recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) that are chartered pursuant to IRA Section 17 or organized by a tribal government pursuant to a tribal code or resolution are eligible to apply.
• Demonstrate in the application essay their need to receive the award by describing the equipment, resources, and/or training the department would purchase and/or the training they would attend to increase their response capabilities for hazardous materials incidents, as well explaining the potential hazardous materials incidents that could occur in their community.
• Only one application will be accepted per department. Any subsequent applications received for that department during the award year will be disqualified. Past recipients of the HELP Award must wait five years before reapplying for the award.
• Departments that receive the award must use the money to increase their department’s hazmat response capabilities and not for any other purpose. The award cannot be redistributed.
• Departments that receive the award agree that their department name, details from their application essay, and all photos taken during the award presentation may be used in media by CHEMTREC, TRANSCAER, and American Chemistry Council, for the purposes of promoting the award program. The departments who receive the awards also agree to a department visit by CHEMTREC for the award presentation within six months of notification of the award.

View full criteria and apply for a CHEMTREC HELP Award by September 5 at www.chemtrec.com/helpaward