EPA Brownfields Job Training Grants:
Interested in Applying for Funding?
Here's what you need to know...
What Is EPA's Brownfields Program ? What Are Job Training Grants ?
Lakewood, Colorado
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's
(EPA's) Brownfields and
Land Revitalization
Program empowers
states, Tribal Nations,
communities, and other
stakeholders to build strong partnerships and local
capacity to assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfield sites. EPA provides technical and financial
assistance for brownfields activities that protect human
health and the environment, encourage sustainable reuse,
promote partnerships, strengthen locai economies, and
create jobs. By providing funds and technical assistance to
assess, cleanup, and plan for site reuse, EPA enables
communities to overcome
the environmental, legal,
and fiscal challenges
associated with
brownfields properties.
EPA's investments in
communities across the
Lakewood, Colorado
country help local leaders eliminate uncertainties, clean
up contaminated properties, and transform brownfield
sites into community assets.
Brownfields Job Training Grants provide funding for a
grant recipient to deliver trainings to unemployed and
under-employed residents from communities impacted by
brownfields. Students develop skills needed to secure full-
time employment in various aspects of hazardous and solid
waste management and within the larger environmental
field, including sustainable cleanup and reuse, and chemical
safety.
Funds may be used to offer trainings in:
~ Brownfields hazardous waste training
~ "Green Remediation" technologies
~ Green infrastructure and stormwater management
~ Emergency planning, preparedness, and response
training for emergencies leading to contamination
on brownfield sites
~ Enhanced environmental health and safety related
to site remediation
~ Energy efficiency and alternative energy technologies
~ Training in assessment, inventory, analysis, and
remediation of brownfield sites
~ Use of techniques and methods for cleanup of
hazardous substances
~ Awareness training in Environmental Stewardship and
Environmental Justice
~ Training in climate change mitigation and adaption
A brownfield isdefined as: 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. The Brownfields Law
further defines the term to include a site that is:
"contaminated by a controlled substance; con-
taminated by petroleum or a petroleum prod-
uct excluded from the definition of'hazardous
substance'; or mine-scarred land."
How Much Funding Is Available?
An applicant may request up to $500,000 in funding
to use for their environmental job training curriculum
development.
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Who Is Eligible To Apply For A
Job Training Grant?
Eligible entities include:
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