Brownfields 2013  Job Training  Grant Fact Sheet
              Zender Environmental Health and Research Group, Rural
              Alaska Native Villages
EPA Environmental Workforce
Development and Job Training Grant
Program

In 2010, the Office of Brownfields and Land
Revitalization (OBLR) led an effort to more closely
collaborate with other programs within EPA on workforce
development and job training. Program offices now
participating in the expanded initiative include the Office
of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR), Office
of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation
(OSRTI), Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST),
Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office (FFRRO),
Center for Program Analysis (CPA), Innovation,
Partnerships, and Communication Office (IPCO), Office
of Wastewater Management (OWM), Office of Chemical
Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), and the Office
of Emergency Management (OEM).  This initiative was
created to develop a job training cooperative agreement
opportunity that includes expanded training in other
environmental media outside the traditional scope of
brownfields hazardous waste remediation. As a result of
this effort, the Environmental Workforce Development
and Job Training Grants Program now allows applicants
to deliver other training in the environmental field, in
addition to the core traditional brownfields hazardous
waste and petroleum training historically provided.

Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training
grant funds are provided to nonprofit organizations and
other eligible entities to recruit, train, and place
predominantly low-income and minority, unemployed and
underemployed residents from solid and hazardous
waste-impacted communities. Residents learn the skills
needed to secure full-time, sustainable employment in the
environmental field, including a focus on assessment and
cleanup activities. Since 1998, EPA has funded 206 job
training grants totaling over $45 million through the
Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training
Grants Program. As of March 2013, approximately 11,473
individuals have completed training, of which
approximately 8,198 have obtained employment in the
environmental field with an average starting hourly wage
of $14.12. This equates to a cumulative placement rate of
approximately 71% since the program was created.
                     Job Training Grant

                     $200,000

                     EPA selected Zender Environmental Health and
                     Research Group for an Environmental Workforce
                     Development and Job Training grant. Zender
                     plans to train 32 students, place 28 graduates in
                     environmental jobs, and track graduates for fifteen
                     months. The core training program includes 168
                     hours of instruction in 40-hour HAZWOPER,
                     freon recovery, resource recovery and solid waste
                     management, landfill operator, home and facility
                     light auditing, forklift operator, site alternative
                     treatment, leaking underground storage tank
                     corrective action (e.g., site assessment and
                     remediation)awareness, including procedures for
                     tank removal when necessary to perform
                     corrective action, above-ground storage tank
                     removal, oil spill emergency response, water and
                     soil sample collection, fuel (e.g., home heating oil)
                     tank inspection, and confined space entry. A total
                     of four state and five federal certifications will be
                     offered. Zender is targeting unemployed residents
                     of small and rural Alaskan Native Villages  located
                     throughout Alaska. Key partners include the
                     Alaska Department of Environmental
                     Conservation, Association of Village Council
                     Presidents Housing Authority, Total ReClaim, and
                     tribal programs throughout the state.

                     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
                     (http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).

                     EPA Region 10 Brownfields Team
                     (206)553-7299
                     EPA Region 10 Brownfields Web site
                     (http://yosemite.epa.gov/R10/CL
                     EANUP.NSF/sites/bf)

                     Grant Recipient: Zender Environmental Health
                     and Research Group,AK
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA560-F-13-190
      June 2013

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                                                          The information presented in this fact sheet comes
                                                          from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
                                                          accuracy of this information. The cooperative
                                                          agreement for the grant has not yet been
                                                          negotiated. Therefore, activities described in this
                                                          fact sheet are subject to change.
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA560-F-13-190
       June 2013

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