Brownfields  2013 Job Training Grant  Fact Sheet
    ~         MoW Community College, Flint, Ml
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

                     $795,050

                     EPA selected Mott Community College for an
                     Environmental Workforce Development and Job
                     Training grant. Mott Community College plans to
                     train 51 students, place 36 graduates in
                     environmental jobs, and track graduates for one
                     year. The core training program includes 370
                     hours of instruction in 40-hour HAZWOPER,
                     enhanced health and safety, applied math and
                     science, site assessment, soil and groundwater
                     sampling and treatment, lead and asbestos
                     awareness, mold awareness, site remediation
                     preparation, leaking underground storage tank
                     corrective action (e.g., site assessment or
                     remediation) awareness including procedures for
                     tank removal  when necessary to perform
                     corrective action, wastewater treatment, and
                     greening techniques. A total of four state and four
                     federal certifications will be offered. Mott
                     Community College is targeting  veterans and
                     unemployed,  dislocated, low-income, or
                     low-skilled residents of Flint for recruitment. Key
                     partners include the Center for Community
                     Progress, Genesee County Land  Bank Authority,
                     the City of Flint, Career Alliance, Inc., Flint River
                     Watershed Council, and a number of
                     environmental employers

                     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 5 Brownfields Team
                     312-886-4747
                     EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
                     (http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfiel ds/)

                     Grant Recipient: Mott Community College,MI
                     810-232-2511

                     The information presented in this fact sheet comes
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA560-F-13-191
      June 2013

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                                                           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-13-191
       June 2013

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