Ql \ Brownfields 2000 Job Training Pilot Fact Sheet PRQl*' | / Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA EPA Brownfields Initiative EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. On January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields Law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible applicants through four competitive grant programs: assessment grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and job training grants. Additionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal response programs through a separate mechanism. Background EPA has selected Carnegie Mellon University for a Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilot. Carnegie Mellon University's assessment pilot partners are the City of Pittsburgh and Central City Borough. The City of Pittsburgh also is the recipient of a Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilot. The Job Training Pilot will focus on distressed neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh/Allegheny County Enterprise Community and from the former coal-mining Central City Borough area. City of Pittsburgh neighborhoods in the Enterprise Community suffer from poverty rates as high as 41 percent and family incomes range from 18-42 percent below county-wide averages. In Central City Borough, 72 percent of families with children live below the poverty level. The Enterprise Community in the City of Pittsburgh contains over 1,500 acres of brownfields. Many of these sites have been cleared of buildings, but remediation was never completed. Central City Borough has a nine-mile long linear brownfield pocked with dozens of acres of abandoned plants and acid mine drainage sites. Acid mine drainage pollution impacts hundreds of miles of streams in the area. The abundance of dredged river sediment managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has innovative reuse potential in the reclamation of these Pilot Snapshot Date of Announcement: 05/01/2000 Amount: $100,000 Profile: The Pilot will train 50 participants in addressing the complexities of brownfields and acid mine drainage pollution, including innovative uses of dredged river materials. Students will be recruited from low-income residents of the City of Pittsburgh Enterprise Community and Central City Borough, which have been economically depressed by declines in mining and manufacturing activities. 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 3 Brownfields Team (215)814-3129 EPA Region 3 Brownfields Web site (http ://www .epa.gov/reg3hwmd/bf-lr) Grant Recipient: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (412) 268-7121 l-Tl0 arlarl +a Objectives Carnegie Mellon University plans to train 50 participants, achieve a 60 percent placement rate, and support career placement of graduates for one year after the training is completed. Participants will be recruited from among the low-income residents of distressed communities in the City of Pittsburgh Enterprise Zone and Central City Borough. The Pilot training program will include courses in the areas of environmental impacts of brownfields and abandoned mine lands, 40-hour HAZWOPER, manufactured soils and structural blocks from river dredge material, constructed wetlands for acid mine drainage treatment, inventory and assessment of acid mine drainage brownfields, and alternative enhancement and vegetation approaches for United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC 20450 Solid Waste and Emergency Response (5105T) EPA 500-F-00-168 May 00 ------- uivjvvuxi^ius. nuwc-vu, a uaiiivu vvujljs.jluiv^v»> 13 iiv^uv^u lu take these innovative applications to full-scale implementation. A survey performed by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center indicates that local environmental companies will hire approximately 1,200 technicians in the next five years and 2,300 technicians in the next 10 years. affected soils. Carnegie Mellon University's training efforts will be supported by organizations such as the University of Pittsburgh, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, AMD & Art, the Pennsylvania State Cooperative Extension Service, and the County Conservation Districts. The training program will include hands-on field demonstrations of innovative assessment and cleanup technologies. Activities Activities planned as part of this Pilot include: • Conducting outreach to recruit low-income residents of distressed communities in the City of Pittsburgh Enterprise Community and in Central City Borough; • Conducting brownfields technician training, including courses in the use of innovative assessment and cleanup technologies; and • Supporting career placement of students for one year after the job training is completed. 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 c Environmental anri Fmpflpn™ EPA 500-F-00-168 r-. j. j.- a ancl Emergency .. __ Protection Agency Response (5105T) MaV00 Washington, DC 20450 ^ v ' ------- |