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    Florida State College at Jacksonville, Florida
    More than 100 graduates of Florida State College at Jacksonville's
    environmental job training program have found positions supporting
    cleanup efforts at the various Superfund ash sites in Jacksonville.
    Graduate Alonzo Terrell completed the job training program in 2011 and
    began working as a driver with ENTACT, removing contaminated ash from
    the Lonnie C. Miller Sr. Regional Park Superfund site. He's been with the
    company now for three years and, in between phases of the ash project
    work, has traveled to Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas to lend a hand on
    other Superfund projects.

    Limitless Vistas, Inc., Louisiana
    Granville Guillory is one of more than 400 at-risk young adults that Limitless
    Vistas, Inc., has trained through its environmental job training program
    since the organization's inception in 2006. Guillory was just 20 years old
    when, after several personal hardships and dropping out of college, his
    aunt told him about Limitless Vistas. After completing the environmental job
    training program there and passing Louisiana's certification for wastewater
    operators, Guillory went to work full-time for Veolia North America's
    wastewater facility in New Orleans, earning a starting wage of $14.95
    per hour. Thanks to his excellent performance as a State of Louisiana
    Class III Wastewater Plant Operator, Guillory will be traveling to Tokyo
    for six months to learn about a more efficient furnace that Veolia plans to
    incorporate into the company's U.S. operations.  He's also giving back to
    the community by mentoring new Limitless Vistas participants, who stand
    to learn from his experiences.

    St. Nicks Alliance, New York
    Within 72 hours of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center site on
    September 11, 2001, Jessenia Rodriguez and more than 30 other
    St. Nicks Alliance job training graduates quickly went to work to assist
    in the response and cleanup efforts. Employed by Clean Harbors
    Environmental Services, these graduates began working 12 hours a day,
    seven days a week to provide environmental protection to workers at the
    site and to help extract the remains of those who lost their lives. Graduates
    staffed the decontamination zone for rescue workers, served as  utility
    technicians and drove
    the vehicles transporting
    human remains from
    Ground Zero.  For
    more than 10 months,
    Rodriguez and her fellow
    graduates assisted with
    the removal of more than
    1.5 million tons of debris.
    They also worked in
    conjunction with the
    U.S. Coast Guard to test
    for anthrax contamination
    at the nation's largest
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    federal mail sorting
    facility in New York.
St. Nicks Alliance graduates at Ground Zero
decontaminating trucks hauling debris from the World
Trade Center site.
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For more information about the EWDJT program, including a link to the
most recent Application Guidelines/Request for Proposals, FAQs and
other resources, please visit www.epa.gov/brownfields/job.htm.
Prospective applicants may also request technical assistance from the
Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute (HMTRI) at Eastern
Iowa Community College by contacting Glo Hanne at (563) 441-4081 or
ghanne@eicc.edu. HMTRI, through a cooperative agreement with
EPA, provides free technical assistance to prospective EWDJT grant
applicants and also manages the Brownfields Toolbox, which provides a
wealth of information on how to develop and successfully implement an
environmental training program (http://brownfields-toolbox.org).

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      Preparing Unemployed and Underemployed
      Residents of Waste-Impacted Communities
      for Full-Time Environmental Careers
      Since 1998, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)
      Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) program
      has helped put people to work, building a skilled environmental workforce
      across the country. Each year, EPA awards competitive grant funding to
      nonprofit organizations and other eligible entities in communities across
      the nation to recruit, train and place unemployed individuals, including
      low-income and minority residents of solid and hazardous waste-impacted
      communities, for a wide range of environmental careers.  Grant recipients
      are provided the flexibility to design training curricula that meet local
      employers' hiring needs. Through comprehensive, cross-disciplinary
      environmental training, graduates develop wider skill sets that increase
      their likelihood of obtaining full-time, sustained careers that advance social,
      economic and environmental betterment.
      The program was created to help build a skilled workforce in communities
      where EPA brownfields assessment and cleanup activities are taking
      place. Rather than seeing local jobs filled by contractors from distant
      cities, EPA created its environmental job training program to offer an
      opportunity for unemployed residents historically affected by environmental
      pollution, economic disinvestment and brownfields to gain the skills and
      certifications needed to secure local cleanup work in their communities.
      Since the program's inception, EPA has funded 256 job training grants
      exceeding $54 million; more than 14,100 individuals have completed
      training; and of those, more than 10,100 have secured employment in the
      environmental field, with an average starting hourly wage of $14.18. This
      equates to a cumulative job placement rate of 72 percent. Graduates of
      the program include individuals who have overcome significant barriers to
      employment, including single mothers, dislocated workers, ex-offenders,
      veterans, minorities and individuals with little to no income, as well as
      homeless individuals.
                                          Whether cleaning up
                                          contaminated properties in their
                                          own neighborhoods, working
                                          at wastewater treatment plants,
                                          removing leaking underground
                                          storage tanks or responding to
                                          oil spills, graduates of EPA's
                                          environmental job training
                                          program are gaining the
                                          know-how to solve today's most
                                          challenging environmental
                                          problems. Graduates have
                                          also secured employment in
                                          the response and cleanup at
                                          sites of national significance,
                                          including the site of the former
                                          World Trade Center in New York
                                          City, along the U.S. Gulf Coast
                                          following the Deepwater Horizon
                                          rig explosion and along the U.S.
                                          coastline following hurricanes
                                          Katrina, Rita and Sandy.
"A key aspect of the
 success of the program
 is the partnership
 between grantees and
 the private sector to
 design curricula based
 on local  markets with
 an eye toward hiring
 graduates, which is why
 there is a 72 percent job
 placement rate."
               — Gina McCarthy
           U.S. EPA Administrator
Types of Training
Each grant recipient develops and delivers its own unique environmental
training program based on local employers' hiring needs. Training may include:
   •  Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 40-hour
     Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response
   •  Superfund and brownfields site-specific assessment and cleanup
   •  Environmental  health and chemical safety
   •  Mold remediation
   •  First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
   •  Lead and asbestos abatement
   •  OSHA disaster site worker, emergency response and
     National Incident Management Systems certification
   •  Leaking underground storage tank removal
   •  Wastewater treatment facility operations and
     stormwater management
   •  Green infrastructure installation and maintenance
   •  Green building design and Leadership in Energy and
     Environmental  Design certifications
   •  Hazardous materials transportation, commercial driver's license,
     forklift and machine operations
   •  Integrated pest management
   •  Geographic information systems, global  positioning systems
     and site surveying
   •  Oil spill response
   •  Ecological restoration, including coastal  restoration
   •  Landfill operations
   •  Construction and demolition debris recycling
   •  Radiation safety, including training in the cleanup of
     uranium-contaminated mine tailings
   •  Wildlife hazing  and climate adaptation
   •  Vapor intrusion testing and mitigation, and radon testing
   •  Energy auditing and weatherization
   •  Solar panel and wind turbine installation

Grantees also help participants build skills to deal effectively with
the demands and challenges of everyday life, including effective
communication and decision-making, interpersonal relationships and
other life-skills training leveraged through non-EPA funding sources.

Success Stories  From the Field
Civic Works' Baltimore Center for Green Careers, Maryland
Aisha Dorn graduated from Civic Works' B'more Green program in 2011.
The next year, she co-founded Lifeline Environmental, LLC. The company
offers asbestos, lead and mold remediation and demolition services. Dorn
knows exactly where to look for qualified contractors for jobs: to date,  she
has hired seven B'more Green graduates. "I know they're certified and
responsible enough to complete the program, which is stringent," she
says. "Now I can give back to Baltimore by helping its residents find work,
which feels great."
                                                                                                                                                                 Grant Facts at a Glance
                                                                                                                                                                    •  Every year, EPA awards EWDJT grants of up to $200,000
                                                                                                                                                                       each with 3-year project periods.
                                                                                                                                                                    •  Generally, 15-17 grants are awarded each year.
                                                                                                                                                                    •  Grant funds cannot be used to pay for administrative or
                                                                                                                                                                       indirect costs, including overhead costs. These costs must be
                                                                                                                                                                       leveraged through in-kind assistance or through commitments
                                                                                                                                                                       from partnering organizations, such as Workforce Investment
                                                                                                                                                                       Boards or One-Stop Centers that have access to Workforce
                                                                                                                                                                       Innovation and Opportunity Act funding.
                                                                                                                                                                    •  For-profit organizations are not eligible to apply.
                                                                                                                                                                    •  Applicants must have partnerships in place with local
                                                                                                                                                                       employers that will interview or hire graduates and with
                                                                                                                                                                       community-based organizations that will provide social
                                                                                                                                                                       services support for trainees.
                                                                                                                                                                    •  Grants must target unemployed or severely underemployed
                                                                                                                                                                       residents of local communities and are not intended to serve
                                                                                                                                                                       individuals who already have an advanced education.
                                                                                                                                                                    •  Grant funds may not be used to pay for training in the trades,
                                                                                                                                                                       such as training in construction or plumbing.
City of Tacoma, Washington
U.S. Navy veteran Andrew Shuckhart completed the City of Tacoma's
environmental job training program and secured a job as a Regulatory
Project Manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "Adjusting to
life outside the military can be difficult," Shuckhart says. "Training like
this helps make veterans more marketable,  not just because of the
certifications, but also because of the professional development.
You learn how to write a resume, succeed in a job interview and build
a professional network."

Zender Environmental  Health and Research Group, Alaska
Zender's Rural Alaska Community Environmental Job Training (RACEJT)
program serves small, remote Alaska Native communities where the
unemployment rate can be as high as 19 percent. Joshua Melton
graduated with the RACEJT
class of 2014. Melton is
President of the Tribal
Council in Noorvik, Alaska,
a village in the Northwest
Arctic Borough whose
population of around 668 are
90 percent Ihupiat—an Inuit,
Alaska Native people. Upon
graduation from the RACEJT
program, Melton became
the Lead Landfill Operator
                                                                                                                                                              in Noorvik, supervising a
                                                                                                                                                              summer crew of 10 and
                                                                                                                                                              earning $19 per hour.
                             Zender trains Alaska Native residents to properly
                             manage solid waste in remote communities, like this
                             one off the state road system.
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