Brownfields 2013 Job Training Grant Fact Sheet
    ™          Southern University at Shreveport, LA
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 has selected Southern University at
                     Shreveport for an Environmental Workforce
                     Development and Job Training grant. Southern
                     University at Shreveport plans to train 60 students,
                     place 55 graduates in environmental jobs, and
                     track graduates for one year. The core training
                     program includes 116 hours of instruction in
                     40-hour HAZWOPER, asbestos supervisor, and
                     OSHA industry safety. Participants also will be
                     required to take an environmental literacy course
                     and participate in a 40-hour environmental
                     cleanup community service project in the Martin
                     Luther King Neighborhood. A total of four state
                     and federal certifications will be offered. Southern
                     University at Shreveport is targeting ex-offenders,
                     veterans, high school dropouts who can qualify
                     through pre-testing, and unemployed and
                     underemployed residents living in Shreveport's
                     at-risk neighborhoods. Key partners include the
                     local Workforce Investment Board Career
                     Solutions Center, Goodwill Industries, the City of
                     Shreveport, the State of Louisiana Department of
                     Environmental Quality, the MLK Neighborhood
                     Association, and several local employers,
                     nonprofits, and faith-based organizations.
                     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 6 Brownfields Team
                     (214)665-3172
                     EPA Region 6 Brownfields Web site
                     (http://www.epa.gov/region6/6sf
                     /brownfields/index.html)

                     Grant Recipient: Southern University at
                     Shreveport,LA
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA560-F-13-199
      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-13-199
       June 2013

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