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Tarrant County College District, TX
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EPA Brownfields Program
In 2010, the EPA's Office of Brownfields and Land
Revitalization (OBLR) led an effort to more closely
collaborate with other programs within the Agency 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 (OSRU),
Center for Program Analysis (CPA), Innovation, Partnerships,
and Communication Office (IPCO), Office of Wastewater
Management (OWM), Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution
Prevention (OCSPP), the Office of Emergency Management
(OEM), and the Urban Waters Program. 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 assessment and cleanup. As a
result of this effort, the Environmental Workforce
Development and Job Training program now allows applicants
to deliver a broader array of training in the environmental field,
in addition to the traditional brownfields hazardous waste and
petroleum training historically provided. Through the
expanded Environmental Workforce Development and Job
Training program, graduates develop wider skill sets that
improve their ability to secure full-time, sustainable
employment in various aspects of hazardous and solid waste
management and within the larger environmental field,
including water quality improvement and chemical safety. This
effort also gives communities more flexibility to provide
different types of environmental training based on local
employers' hiring needs.
Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training
grant funds are provided to nonprofit organizations and other
eligible entities to recruit, train, and place residents from solid
and hazardous waste-impacted communities, including
low-income and minority, unemployed, and underemployed
individuals. To date, EPA has funded 256 job training grants
totaling over $54 million through the former Brownfields Job
Training program and Environmental Workforce Development
and Job Training program. As of April 2015, more than 13,800
individuals have completed training, and of those, more than
10,000 have obtained employment in the environmental field,
with an average starting hourly wage of $14.18. This equates to
a cumulative placement rate of approximately 72% since the
program was created in 1998.
Job Training Grant
$158,462.00
EPA has selected Tarrant County College District for an Environmental
Workforce Development and Job Training grant. Tarrant County College
District plans to train 57 students and place at least 45 graduates in
wastewater treatment facility jobs. The core training includes 172 hours
of instruction in 40-hour HAZWOPER and a suite of wastewater-related
training that includes coursework in basic wastewater operation,
treatment, and collection; water utility safety and calculations; and
wastewater laboratory. Trainees also will participate in a 252-hour
advanced wastewater internship program. In addition to a HAZWOPER
certification, graduates will earn a wastewater operator license from the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Tarrant County College
District is targeting unemployed and underemployed residents of Tarrant
County, including military veterans. Key partners include the City of
Fort Worth, Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County, United Way of
Tarrant County, American Water Works Association, and several
environmental and community-based organizations.
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)665-3172
EPA Region 6 Brownfields Web site
(https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/epa-regi
on-6-south-central-brownfields )
Grant Recipient: Tarrant County College District, TX
(817)515-7198
Hie 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.
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