SEPA
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-99-104
May 1999
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
Brownfields Job Training
and Development
Demonstration Pilot
City of Stamford, CT
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 the City of Stamford for a
Brownfields Job Training and Development
Demonstration Pilot. The City of Stamford will
manage the Brownfields Job Training Pilot,
Brownfields Assessment Pilot, and Showcase
Community Initiative. The Job Training Pilot will
target Stamford's South End and Waterside
communities (population 8,300), which are located on
Long Island Sound in Stamford's state-designated
Enterprise Zone. South End residents are 44 percent
African-American and 35 percent Hispanic, with a
personal income less than half of the city-wide average.
Waterside residents are 77 percent minority, and
suffer from a 25 percent percent poverty rate and
higher-than-average unemployment.
The Pilot area contains numerous brownfields
interspersed with commercial and residential
properties. The city is conducting a comprehensive
revitalization effort in these communities, including a
Dock Street Connector project that will improve
transportation to the harbor area. The economic
distress of South End and Waterside and the
revitalization efforts of the city indicate of need for
environmental training in these two neighborhoods.
PILOT SNAPSHOT
City of Stamford,
Connecticut
Contacts:
City of Stamford
(203)977-4190
Date of Announcement:
May 1999
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot will train 35
participants as environmental
technicians. Students will be
recruitedfromthe primarily minority
and distressed Waterside and
South End neighborhoods, which
are located in a state Enterprise
Community on the shores of Long
Island Sound.
Regional Brownfields Team
U.S. EPA-Region 1
(617)573-9681
Visit the EPA Region 1 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/region01/remed/brnfld/
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
The City of Stamford plans to train 35 residents with
the EPA grant, achieve a 75 percent placement rate,
and track graduates for one year after completion of
the training. The Pilotwilltargetlow-income residents
of the South End and Waterside communities. The
Pilot training program will consist of a 25 credit-hour
environmental technician course, including training in
the use of innovative assessment and cleanup
technologies.
The training efforts of the city of Stamford will be
supported by organizations such as CTE, Inc. (a
community action agency for the city), Norwalk
Community Technical College, EnviroMed Services,
Inc., the Stamford Area Commerce and Industry
Association, and the Waterside Coalition. The state
Enterprise Zone designation requires environmental
contractors to hire local residents.
ACTIVITIES
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Conducting outreach to recruit low-income residents
of the South End and Waterside communities;
• Conducting environmental technician training,
including courses in the use of innovative assessment
and cleanup technologies; and
• Supporting career placement of graduates for one
year after the job training in completed.
The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet been negotiated;
therefore, activities described in this factsheetare subjectto change.
Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilot City of Stamford, Connecticut
May 1999 EPA500-F-99-104
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