Brownfields 2013 Job  Training  Grant Fact Sheet
    ™          Florida State College at Jacksonville,  FL
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 Florida State College at Jacksonville
                     for an Environmental Workforce Development
                     and Job Training grant. Florida State College at
                     Jacksonville plans to train 60 students, place 45
                     graduates in environmental jobs, and track
                     graduates for one year. The core training program
                     includes 300 hours of instruction, including
                     coursework in 40-hour HAZWOPER; leaking
                     underground storage tank corrective action (e.g.,
                     site assessment and remediation) awareness,
                     including procedures for tank removal when
                     necessary to perform corrective action; solid waste
                     deconstruction and recycling; green remediation
                     technologies; environmental math and chemical
                     awareness training; Florida stormwater, erosion,
                     and sedimentation control inspector; collections
                     and wastewater training; two emergency response
                     classes; and eleven enhanced environmental health
                     and safety training classes. A total of 22 state and
                     federal certifications will be offered. Florida State
                     College at Jacksonville is targeting unemployed or
                     severely underemployed veterans, displaced
                     workers, ex-offenders, single mothers, recovering
                     substance abusers, and homeless, low-income, and
                     minority residents of Jacksonville. Key partners
                     include the Jacksonville Housing Authority;
                     WorkSource; the City of Jacksonville Division of
                     Military Affairs, Veteran's, and Disabled Services;
                     and the Florida State College Foundation.

                     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 4 Brownfields Team
                     404-562-8660
                     EPA Region 4 Brownfields Web site
                     (http://www.epa.gov/region4/rcr
                     a/bflr/brownfields.html)
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA560-F-13-198
      June 2013

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                                                          Grant Recipient: Florida State College at
                                                          Jacksonville
                                                          904-632-5933

                                                          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-13-198
       June 2013

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