SEPA
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, D.C. 20460
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5101)
EPA 500-F-00-171
May 2000
www.epa.gov/brownfields/
Brownfields Job Training
and Development
Demonstration Pilot
City of Hamilton, OH
Outreach and Special Projects Staff (5105)
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 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 City of Hamilton for a
Brownfields Job Training and Development
Demonstration Pilot. The City of Hamilton is the
recipient of a Brownfields Assessment Pilot and a
Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilot. The
City of Hamilton (population 65,000) is located in
southeastern Ohio, approximately 20 miles north of
Cincinnati. The Job Training Pilot will focus on the
state Enterprise Zone, which contains approximately
half of the city's residents. Thirteen percent of the
residents living within the Enterprise Zone are
minorities. Residents of the economically depressed
Enterprise Zone suffer from a 12 percent
unemployment rate and 36 percent poverty rate
(statistics based on the 1990 census). Hamilton has
been designated by the State of Ohio as one of the
State's seven Distressed Communities.
The Enterprise Zone includes an abundance of older
manufacturing facilities, many of which have not
been modernized for decades. Many ofthese facilities
are vacant or their use has shifted from their original
intended use. The loss of j obs caused by disinvestment
in these facilities has decreased the community's
PILOT SNAPSHOT
Hamilton, Ohio
Date of Announcement:
May 2000
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot will train 36
participants as environmental
technicians. Students will be
recruited from unemployed, Welfare-
to-Work, and other disadvantaged
residents in the state Enterprise Zone,
which is economically depressed
because of the presence of many,
abandoned, underused, and
potentially contaminated industrial
and commercial facilities.
Contacts:
City of Hamilton Regional Brownfields Team
(513)868-5855 U.S. EPA - Region 5
(312)886-4747
Visit the E PA Region 5 Brownfields web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields/
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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economic vitality and increased the number of
abandoned and underused properties. Training of
local residents is needed to complement the
redevelopment efforts instituted through the two
existing EPA pilots and provide livable wage jobs for
residents of the Enterprise Zone.
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
The City of Hamilton plans to train 36 participants,
achieve a 70 percent placement rate, and support
career placement of graduates for one year after the
training is completed. Participants will be recruited
from unemployed, Welfare-to-Work, and other
disadvantaged residents of the Enterprise Zone. The
195-hour Pilot training program will cover
environmental awareness, OSHA 40-hour health and
safety, emergency response, remediation
technologies, environmental sampling, lead abatement,
incident command, and technology demonstrations,
including training in the use of innovative assessment
and cleanup technologies. Refresher courses will be
offered in the second year of the training program.
The City of Hamilton's training efforts will be
supported by organizations such as the University of
Findlay, Butler County Department of Human
Services, Butler County Private Industry Council, and
Support to Encourage Low-Income Families (SELF).
The U.S. Department of Energy, through its contractor
Fluor Daniel Fernald, has committed to providing
demonstrations on the operation of various remediation
technologies. The Greater Hamilton Chamber of
Commerce has committed to conducting a survey of
local environmental employers to determine their
hiringneeds. The City ofHamiltonofferstaxincentives
to employers for hiring low-to-middle income local
residents.
ACTIVITIES
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
• Conducting outreach to recruit unemployed,
Welfare-to-Work, and other disadvantaged residents
in the state Enterprise Zone;
• Conducting brownfieldstechnician training, including
courses in the use of innovative assessment and
cleanup technologies; and
• Supporting career placement of students for one
year 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.
BrownfieldsJob Training and Development Demonstration Pilot
May2000
City of Hamilton, Ohio
EPA500-F-00-171
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