SEPA
                       United States
                       Environmental
                       Protection Agency
                       Washington, D.C. 20460
                        Solid Waste
                        and Emergency
                        Response (5105)
 EPA 500-F-01-356
 December 2001
 www.epa.gov/brownfields/
Brownfields Job Training
and  Development
Demonstration  Pilot
           DC Department of Health, Washington, DC
                                                                Quick Reference Fact Sheet
EPA's Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower states, communities, and other
stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and
sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or portion thereof, that has actual or perceived contamination and
an active potential for redevelopment or reuse. EPA is funding:  assessment demonstration pilot programs (each funded
up to $250,000 over two years) to assess brownfields sites and to test cleanup and redevelopment models; job training
pilot programs (each funded up to $200,000 over two years) to provide training for residents of communities affected
by brownfields to facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental
field; and cleanup revolving loan fund programs (each funded up to $1,000,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds
to make loans for the environmental cleanup of brownfields. These pilot programs are intended to provide EPA, states,
tribes, municipalities, and communities with useful information and strategies as they continue to seek new methods
to promote a  unified approach to site assessment,  environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
BACKGROUND

EPA has selected the Washington, DC, Department
of Health  for a Brownfields Job Training  and
Development Demonstration  Pilot. The  DC
Department of Health also is the recipient of a
Brownfields Assessment Pilot and a Brownfields
Cleanup Revolving LoanFundPilot. Washington, DC
(population 529,000) is a community of many
neighborhoods. The District's  Enterprise Zone
encompasses 65 of its 193 communities and half of
the land available for development. Over two-thirds
of the  District's residents are minorities.  The
unemployment rate in the District is twice the national
average, and almost 20% of residents live in poverty.

The District is experiencing an economic resurgence
after decades of decline, and the pressure to assess,
remediate, and redevelop the City' s numerous vacant
industrial and commercial sites is intensifying. The
Job Training Pilot is needed to help  ensure  that
Districtresidents benefit from the stable environmental
jobs that this pressure will produce and that local
businesses will have a pool of trained environmental
technicians from which to hire employees.
                       PILOT SNAPSHOT
                        Washington,
                        DC
                       Contacts:

                       DC Department of Health
                       (202)442-8982
Date of Announcement:
December 2001
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot will train 58
students as  environmental
technicians. Students will be
recruited from disadvantaged
residents of communities
impacted by brownfields in the
District of Columbia, where
unemployment is twice the
national average.
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA - Region 3
(215)814-3246
                            Visit the E PA Region 3 Brownfields web site at:
                                 http://www.epa.gov/region03/

                          Forfurtherinformation,includingspecific Pilot contacts,
                        additional Pilot information, brownfields news and events, and
                        publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site at:
                               http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/

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TRAINING OBJECTIVES

The  DC Department of Health plans to train  58
students, achieve an 80% placementrate, and support
career placement of graduates for two years after the
training is completed. Students will be recruited from
disadvantagedresidents of communities impacted by
brownfields. The Pilot training program will include
HAZWOPER, lead and asbestos abatement, OSHA
construction  worker, hazardous communication,
confined space, brownfields and site assessment, and
sampling and sample management, including training
in the use of innovative assessment and cleanup
technologies.

The training efforts of the DC Department of Health
will be supported by organizations such as the Alice
Hamilton Occupational Health  Center, STRIVE,
Bridges to Friendship, Howard University, and Home
Engineering Services. Evening  advanced training
courses will be provided for free to working graduates
of the Pilot.

ACTIVITIES

Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:

• Conducting outreach  to  recruit  disadvantaged
 residents of communities impacted by brownfields;

• Conducting training for entry-level positions as
 brownfields technicians, including courses in the
 use of innovative assessment  and cleanup
 technologies; and

• Supporting career placement of students for two
 years after the job training is completed.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
 Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilot
 December2001
                 DC Department of Health, Washington, DC
                                  EPA500-F-01-356

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