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Brownfields 2004
Grant Fact Sheet
Young Community
Developers, Inc., San
Francisco, CA
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, commu-
nities, and other stakeholders in economic development
to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up,
and sustainably reuse brownfields. Abrownfield site is
real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse
of which may be complicated by the presence or
potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant,
or contaminant. On January 11, 2002, President George
W. Bush signed into law the Small Business Liability
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under the
Brownfields Law, EPA provides financial assistance to
eligible applicants through four competitive grant
programs: assessment grants, revolving loan fund
grants, cleanup grants, and job training grants. The job
training grants provide training for residents of commu-
nities affected by brownfields to prepare them for
employment in the assessment and cleanup of
brownfield sites. Additionally, funding support is
provided to state and tribal response programs through
a separate mechanism.
Community Description
Young Community Developers, Inc. (YCD) was selected
to receive ajob training grant. San Francisco's Bayview
Hunter's Point (BVHP) neighborhood, a designated
Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community, is home to a
majority of the city's African-American population and
one of city's poorest neighborhoods. The BVHP neigh-
borhood has an unemployment rate of 18.5%, and the
median family income is two-thirds of the city average.
BVHP is the only area in San Francisco with available
Job Training Grant
$150,000
EPA has selected Young Community Developers,
Inc. of San Francisco for ajob training grant.
YCD plans to train 40 students, achieve an 80%
placement rate, and track students for one year
following employment. The training program will
consist of 320 hours of training in hazardous
waste handling and safety, lead and asbestos
abatement, general construction, underground
storage tanks, and phytoremediation. Students will
be recruited from one of San Francisco's poorest
neighborhoods, Bayview Hunter's Point. Place-
ment of graduates in environmental jobs will be
assisted by the city's First Source Hiring Program,
YCD's Citizen Advisory Committee, and formal
agreements with all developers with projects in
Southeast San Francisco.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant
contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
news and events, and publications and links, visit
the EPA Brownfields web site at: www.epa.gov/
brownfields.
EPA Region 9 Brownfields Team
415-972-3143
http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/
index.html
Grant Recipient: Young Community Developers,
Inc., San Francisco, CA
415-822-3491
land for development. The city has identified 120
brownfields sites in BVHP, all within a three-mile radius
of the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site.
Fifteen of these brownfields sites have been assessed and
are ready for cleanup activities. The Hunter's Point Naval
Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board and the Consortium
of Southeast Contractors have documented an extreme
need for local environmental workers to support
remediation projects in the area.
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA500-F-04-018
March 2004
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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