Brownfields 2017 Job Training Grant Fact Sheet
Zender Environmental Health and Research Group, Rural Alaska
EPA Brownfields Program
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. In 2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act was passed to help states and
communities around the country cleanup and revitalize
brownfields sites. Under this 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.
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 274 job training grants
totaling over $57 million through the Environmental
Workforce Development and Job Training program. As of
May 2017, more than 16,300 individuals have completed
training, and of those, almost 12,000 have obtained
employment in the environmental field, an average starting
wage of over $14 an hour. This equates to a cumulative
placement rate of approximately 73% since the program was
created in 1998.
Job Training Grant
$200,000.00
EPA has selected the Zender Environmental Health and Research Group
for an Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training grant.
The Zender Environmental Health and Research Group plans to train 35
students and place at least 32 graduates in environmental jobs. The core
training program includes 204 hours of instruction in 40-hour
HAZWOPER and 19 other courses under the following categories:
brownfields waste assessment and cleanup training, solid waste
management, spill response, and climate change-specific natural
disasters flooding. Participants who complete the training program will
earn 15 state or federal certifications. The Zender Environmental Health
and Research Group is targeting federally recognized tribes in rural
Alaska and their communities, including veterans, as well as
beneficiaries of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs, and ex-offenders in rural
areas throughout the State of Alaska. Key partners include the
Municipality of Anchorage, State of Alaska Department of
Environmental Conservation, Bristol Bay Native Association, University
of Alaska-Fairbank, The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Total
Reclaim, and Native Villages of Port Heiden, Hooper Bay, and Brevig
Mission.
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 10 Brownfields Team
(206) 553-7299
EPA Region 10 Brownfields Web site
(https: //www. epa. go v/bro wnfields/brownfie
lds-and-land-revitalization-washington-i daho-oregon-and-alaska )
Grant Recipient: Zender Environmental Health and Research Group, AK
(907)444-5535
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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