United States
Environmental
Solid Waste
and Emergency
EPA 500-F-99-106
May 1999
SEPA
Protection Agency Response (5101) www.epa.gov/brownfields/
Washington, D.C. 20460
Brownfields Job Training
and Development
Demonstration Pilot
Young Community Developers, Inc.,
San Francisco, CA
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5101)
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 $200,000 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 $500,000 over five years) to capitalize loan funds
to make loans forthe 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 Young Community Developers,
Inc. (YCD) for a Brownfields Job Training and
Development Demonstration Pilot. YCD's
Brownfields Assessment Pilot partner is the San
Francisco Redevelopment Agency. YCD is a 25-
year-old community-based organization that provides
training and employment opportunities to residents of
the Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) neighborhood of
southeast San Francisco. The BVHP neighborhood
(population 25,000) is one of San Francisco's
historically African-American communities and is
one of the city's poorest communities. BVHP is a
federally designated Enterprise Community.
Unemployment is 16 percent and household incomes
are less than two-thirds of the city average.
Approximately 120 brownfields have been identified
within athree-mile radius of the BVHP neighborhood.
Despite the need for employment opportunities for
BVHP residents and redevelopment activities in the
area, community hiring goals have not been met
because of a lack of qualified community residents.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Young Community
Developers, Inc.,
SanFrancisco,
California
Date of Announcement:
May 1999
Amount: $179,715
Profile: The Pilot will train 40
participants as environmental
technicians, including the use of
innovativeassessmentand treatment
technologies. Students will be
recruited fromthe Bayview Hunters
Point community of southeast San
Francisco, which is a federally
designated Enterprise Community.
Contacts:
Young Community
Developers, Inc.
(415)822-2191
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 9
(415)744-2237
Visit the EPA Region 9 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region09/waste/brown/index.html
Forfurther information, including specific 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
YCD plans to train 40 BVHP residents, achieve an 85
percent placement rate, and track students for one
year after completion of the training. In addition,
YCD plans to conduct community forums to provide
residents with information on the health risks posed by
brownfields in the area and recruit potential students
forthetrainingprogram. ThePilotwilltargetindividuals
receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
and other low-income community residents. The
training program will consist of a 288-hour
environmental technician training program, including
training in the use of innovative assessment and
cleanup technologies.
The training efforts of YCD will be supported by
organizations such as the University of California at
Berkeley, Southeast Community College, San
Francisco Department of Human Services, the
Laborers AGC, and Hensel Phelps Construction
Company. Environmental firms and construction
companies have committed to hiring graduates, and
the Building and Trades Council will provide
information about the requirements for union
apprenticeship programs.
ACTIVITIES
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Conducting outreach to recruit low-income residents
of the Bayview Hunters Point community;
• Conducting environmental technician training,
including courses in the use of innovative assessment
and cleanup technologies; and
• Supporting career placement of students foratleast
one year after the job training is completed.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this factsheetare subject to change.
Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilot Young Community Developers, Inc. San Francisco, California
May 1999 EPA500-F-99-106
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