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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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