\   2012 Environmental Workforce Development
              and Job Training Grant Fact Sheet
  ***лл*      i_os Angeles Conservation Corps, CA
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 just
brownfields cleanup. As a result of this effort, the
Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training
Grants Program, formerly known as the "Brownfields 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
under-employed 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. To date, EPA has funded 191 job
training grants totaling over $42 million through the
former Brownfields Job Training Program and newly
expanded Environmental Workforce Development and
Job Training Program. As of January 2012, approximately
10,275 individuals had completed training and
approximately 7,155 obtained employment in the
environmental field, with an average starting hourly wage
of $14.12. This equates to a cumulative placement rate of
                    Environmental Workforce
                    Development and Job Training
                    Grant

                    $200,000

                    EPA has selected the Los Angeles Conservation
                    Corps (LACC) for an environmental workforce
                    development and job training grant. LACC plans
                    to train 60 students, place at least 48 graduates in
                    environmental jobs, and track graduates for one
                    year. The core training program includes 82 hours
                    of environmental training in 40-hour
                    HAZWOPER, 32-hour asbestos abatement
                    worker, and OSHA site worker safety.
                    Participants also will be offered an additional 59
                    hours of training covering a variety of innovative
                    remediation cleanup and detection methods,
                    including wastewater treatment, UST leak
                    prevention, landfill remediation capping, soil
                    sampling  and analysis, and chemical safety and
                    stewardship. LACC is targeting underemployed
                    and unemployed young adults living in the
                    Pacoima District of the San Fernando Valley for
                    this job training program. Key partners include the
                    City of Los Angeles Brownfields Program,
                    Pacoima Beautiful, WorkSource California, the
                    Los Angeles County Department of Public Social
                    Services, the Los Angeles Community
                    Development Department, Los Angeles Housing
                    Department, Los Angeles Trade-Technical
                    College, and the Northeast San Fernando Valley
                    WorkSource Center.
                    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 9 Brownfields Team
                    415-972-3270
                    EPA Region 9 Brownfields Web site
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA560-F-12-179
      June 2012

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approximately 70% for the program, and also includes
accomplishments data recorded since the program was
created in 1998.
                      (http://www.epa.gov/region09/wa
                      ste/brown/index.html)

                      Grant Recipient: Los Angeles Conservation Corps
                      213-362-9000 ext 238

                      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-12-179
      June 2012

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