Brownfields 2015 Job Training Grant Fact Sheet St. Louis Community College, MO


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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 (OSRTI),
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
$192,300
EPA has selected St. Louis Community College for an Environmental
Workforce Development and Job Training grant. St. Louis Community
College plans to train 69 students and place at least 55 graduates in
environmental jobs. Each student will receive 244 hours of core training
in 40-hour HAZWOPER; lead and asbestos abatement worker; mold
remediation; lead renovator, repair, and painting; underground storage
tank removal; environmental sampling and monitoring; stormwater
management; innovative and alternate treatment technologies; OSHA
10-hour construction safety; OSHA chemical hazards; OSHA
blood-borne pathogens; radiation worker; fall protection; confined space
entry; and other advanced safety and ecosystem restoration coursework.
Participants who complete the training will earn 19 federal, state, or
university certifications. Two of the certifications will lead to four
licenses, a license for Lead Abatement in Missouri and in Illinois, and a
license for Asbestos Abatement also in both states. State certifications
will be for both Missouri and Illinois, allowing graduates to work in the
bi-state region. St. Louis Community College is targeting unemployed
and underemployed residents of the St. Louis metro area, including those
living in the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County in Missouri, and in
the City of East St. Louis in Illinois. Recruitment efforts will focus on
individuals living in areas impacted by hazardous waste sites, as well as
dislocated workers and veterans. Key partners include St. Louis
Development Corporation, Eastern Missouri Laborers District Council,
Fathers' Support Center, Connections to Success, the City of St. Louis
and St. Louis County Workforce Investment Boards, YouthBuild of St.
Louis, Operation Excel, 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 7 Brownfields Team
(913)551-7380
EPA Region 7 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/brownfie
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missouri-nebraska-and-nine-tribal)
Grant Recipient: St. Louis Community College, MO
(314)539-5296
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.
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