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Brownfields 2000 Job Training Pilot Fact Sheet
City of Hamilton, OH
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 the City of Hamilton for a Brownfields
Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilot. The
City of Hamilton is the recipient of a Brownfields
Assessment Pilot and a Brownfields Cleanup Revolving
Loan Fund Pilot. The City of Hamilton (population
65,000) is located in southeastern Ohio, approximately
20 miles north of Cincinnati. The Job Training Pilot will
focus on the state Enterprise Zone, which contains
approximately half of the city's residents. Thirteen
percent of the residents living within the Enterprise Zone
are minorities. Residents of the economically depressed
Enterprise Zone suffer from a 12 percent unemployment
rate and 36 percent poverty rate (statistics based on the
1990 census). Hamilton has been designated by the State
of Ohio as one of the State's seven Distressed
Communities.
The Enterprise Zone includes an abundance of older
manufacturing facilities, many of which have not been
modernized for decades. Many of these facilities are
vacant or their use has shifted from their original
intended use. The loss of jobs caused by disinvestment in
these facilities has decreased the community's economic
vitality and increased the number of abandoned and
underused properties. Training of local residents is
needed to complement the redevelopment efforts
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 05/01/2000
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot will train 36 participants as
environmental technicians. Students will be recruited
from unemployed, Welfare-to-Work, and other
disadvantaged residents in the state Enterprise Zone,
which is economically depressed because of the
presence of many, abandoned, underused, and
potentially contaminated industrial and commercial
facilities.
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 5 Brownfields Team
(312)886-7576
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields)
Grant Recipient: City of Hamilton, Ohio
(513)868-5855
Objectives
The City of Hamilton plans to train 36 participants,
achieve a 70 percent placement rate, and support career
placement of graduates for one year after the training is
completed. Participants will be recruited from
unemployed, Welfare-to-Work, and other disadvantaged
residents of the Enterprise Zone. The 195-hour Pilot
training program will cover environmental awareness,
OSHA 40-hour health and safety, emergency response,
remediation technologies, environmental sampling, lead
abatement, incident command, and technology
demonstrations, including training in the use of
innovative assessment and cleanup technologies.
Refresher courses will be offered in the second year of
the training program.
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
Solid Waste
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
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instituted through the two existing EPA pilots and
provide livable wage jobs for residents of the Enterprise
Zone.
The City of Hamilton's training efforts will be supported
by organizations such as the University of Findlay,
Butler County Department of Human Services, Butler
County Private Industry Council, and Support to
Encourage Low-Income Families (SELF). The U.S.
Department of Energy, through its contractor Fluor
Daniel Fernald, has committed to providing
demonstrations on the operation of various remediation
technologies. The Greater Hamilton Chamber of
Commerce has committed to conducting a survey of
local environmental employers to determine their hiring
needs. The City of Hamilton offers tax incentives to
employers for hiring low-to-middle income local
residents.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
•	Conducting outreach to recruit unemployed,
Welfare-to-Work, and other disadvantaged
residents in the state Enterprise Zone;
•	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.
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