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Brownfields 2011 Job Training Grant Fact Sheet
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
Santa Fe Community College's job training program will
target residents of Santa Fe, San Miguel, and Mora
Job Training Grant
$300,000
EPA has selected Santa Fe Community College
for an environmental workforce development and
job training grant. Santa Fe Community College
plans to train 45 students, place 34 graduates in
environmental jobs, and track graduates for one
year. The training program will consist of three
180-hour, five-week training cycles. Core training
of 100 hours will include courses on 40-hour
HAZWOPER, OSHA construction safety, lead
renovator, and underground storage tank leak
prevention. Specialty training of 80 hours will
consist of two tracks on photo voltaic solar energy
or environmental investigation and cleanup
training. Primary trainers will be Santa Fe
Community College and its Trades and Advanced
Technologies Center. Students will be recruited
from unemployed and underemployed state
residents, including veterans, Native Americans,
and unemployed or underemployed construction
workers. Santa Fe Community College will work
with its partners who serve on its Advisory
Council to place graduates in environmental jobs.
Partners include local employers, property owners,
the local workforce development board, and the
Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council Office of
Environmental and Technical Assistance.
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) 665-6780
EPA Region 6 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/region6/bro wnfields)
Grant Recipient: Santa Fe Community College,NM
5054281414
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
EPA 560-F-11-054
July 2011
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(combined population 371,679). These target areas The information presented in this fact sheet comes
include economically disadvantaged minority from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the
communities that currently receive or have received state accuracy of this information. The cooperative
or federal brownfields funding. In San Miguel County, agreement for the grant has not yet been
24.5 percent of families live below the poverty level, and negotiated. Therefore, activities described in this
78 percent of residents are Hispanic. In Mora County, the | fact sheet are subject to change.
unemployment rate is 16.4 percent, and 81.6 percent of
residents are Hispanic. The median household incomes in
both counties are lower than the national median. The
average unemployment rate for Native Americans is 43
percent. There are brownfields in all the target
communities, and there is a lack of workers trained for
brownfields work in the northeastern quadrant of the state
and on Pueblo and Tribal lands. Environmental
technicians are needed in environmental cleanup and
construction, solar and renewable energy operations, and
commercial photo voltaic development. The job training
program and curriculum are being developed with local
environmental employers and property owners, indicating
that program graduates will be hired locally.
United States
Environmental and Emergency EPA 560^- 1
Protection Agency Resoonse (51 Q5Ti July
Washington, DC 20450 Kesponse (bl Ob I)
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