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EPA Brownfields Program

In 2010, the Office of Brownfields and Land
Revitalization (OBLR) led an effort to more closely
collaborate on workforce development and job training
with other programs within EPA's Office of Solid Waste
and Emergency Response (OSWER), including 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), and the
Office of Emergency Management (OEM) to develop a
job training cooperative agreement opportunity that
includes expanded training in other environmental media
outside the traditional scope of just brownfields. As a
result of these discussions, the "Environmental Workforce
Development and Job Training Grants Program,"
formerly known as the "Brownfields Job Training Grants
Program," was formed and now provides grantees the
ability to deliver additional hazardous and solid waste
training. By expanding the program, communities are
provided the flexibility to deliver new types of
environmental training based on local labor market
demands.

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. These grants  help to create green jobs
that reduce environmental contamination and promote
sustainability in communities throughout the nation. EPA
awarded its first Brownfields Job Training Grants in  1998.
To date, more than 5,000 people have obtained
environmental employment in the environmental field
with an average starting hourly wage of $14.65.

Community Description

The Center for Working Families, Inc., will target its job
training activities on a 3.5-square mile area south of
                     Job Training Grant

                     $300,000

                     EPA has selected The Center for Working
                     Families, Inc., (TCWFI) for an environmental
                     workforce development and job training grant.
                     TCWFI plans to train 34 students, place 29
                     graduates in environmental jobs, and track
                     graduates for one year. The Green Jobs
                     Opportunity Pathway training program will
                     consist of four 218-hour training cycles, with a
                     focus on hazardous and solid waste remediation
                     and green construction skills. Courses will include
                     40-hour HAZWOPER; OSHA construction safety
                     and health; underground storage tank leak
                     prevention awareness; green construction; and
                     lead, asbestos, and mold abatement. Primary
                     trainers will be Southface Energy Institute and
                     Clark Atlanta University. Students will be
                     recruited from unemployed and underemployed,
                     low-income residents of Neighborhood Planning
                     Unit-V (NPU-V) who face significant barriers to
                     employment. TCWFI will work with local
                     environmental employers and its training
                     providers to place graduates in environmental jobs
                     Of the several companies that have agreed to
                     interview program graduates, TCWFI
                     Construction Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of
                     TCWFI, has committed to hiring 60 percent of
                     program graduates for jobs that involve
                     rehabilitating houses in NPU-V.
                     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) 562-8792
                     EPA Region 4 Brownfields Web  site
                     (http://www.epa.gov/region4/was te/bf)
  United States
  Environmental
  Protection Agency
  Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-11-047
      July 2011

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(NPU-V) (population 15,825). NPU-V, which is part of a
federally designated Renewal Community, includes five
of Atlanta's oldest residential neighborhoods. The target
communities have an abundance of vacant and
dilapidated houses that present potential health risks to
the community due to the presence of lead, asbestos,
mold, and electrical hazards. In NPU-V, 42 percent of
homes are vacant and, in some areas, up to 40 percent of
homes are in foreclosure. The target area has a poverty
rate of 35 percent and an unemployment rate of 18.3
percent, both of which far exceed state and national
averages. Ninety-two percent of NPU-V residents are
African-American. The Georgia Department of Labor
estimates that the demand for workers skilled in the
construction trades will grow by 13 percent between 2006
and 2016, and demand for specialty trade contractors is
expected to grow by 41 percent during the same time
period. In addition, Atlanta is poised to take  advantage of
an influx of federal funding for weatherization and green
construction. These trends point to a long term need for
workers with green construction and environmental
technician training.
                      Grant Recipient: The Center for Working
                      Families, Inc.,GA
                      4042307127

                      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)
EPA 560-F-11-047
       July 2011

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