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Brownfields 2008
Grant Fact Sheet
King County, WA
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 con-
taminant. On January 11, 2002, President George W.
Bush signed into law the Small Business Liability Relief
and Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under this 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 brownfields job training grants
provide residents of communities impacted by
brownfields with the skills and training needed to
effectively gain employment in assessment and cleanup
activities associated with brownfield redevelopment and
environmental remediation. Additionally, funding support
is provided to state and tribal response programs through
a separate mechanism.
Community Description
King County was selected to receive a job training
grant. Located in northwest Washington, King County
(population 1,808,000) includes the City of Seattle,
which is a federally designated Enterprise Community
that is home to numerous potentially contaminated
Job Training Grant
$200,000
EPA has selected King County for a job training
grant. The county plans to train a minimum of 72
students, place at least 60 graduates in environ-
mental jobs, and track graduates for one year.
The training program will provide 238 hours of
classroom and hands-on instruction, including
certifications in HAZWOPER, industrial spill
response and hygiene, and lead and asbestos
abatement training. Primary trainers will be Cole
and Associates and TCB Industrial. Students will
be recruited from low-income county residents,
with an emphasis on residents living in or near the
Duwamish-Tukwila Manufacturing Industrial
Center. King County will work with labor unions,
construction companies, environmental cleanup
companies, and government agencies to place
graduates in environmental jobs.
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.
Laura Caparroso, EPA Region 10
206-553-6378
http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CLEANUP.NSF/
sites/bf
Grant Recipient: King County, WA
206-263-9022
The cooperative agreement for this grant has not
yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described
in this fact sheet are subject to change.
properties. The county's poverty rate of 10.4 percent
has increased by more than 40 percent during the last
two years, and 30 percent of residents are minorities.
This grant targets low-income, disadvantaged adult
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
(5105T)
EPA 560-F-08-237
March 2008
www.epa.gov/brownfields
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residents of King County, with an emphasis on individu-
als residing within the Duwamish-Tukwila Manufactur-
ing Industrial Center neighborhood. In the targeted
community, the poverty rate is 12.5 percent, and almost
50 percent of residents are minorities. This community
is one of the principal areas of contaminated properties
in the county and is surrounded by low-income, minor-
ity, and health-sensitive populations. In recent employer
surveys, the state found a strong local demand for
environmental technicians.
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