EPA Announces Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration

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EPA Announces Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Job Training
and Development Demonstration Pilots. 
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/html-doc/jtguide.htm
The deadline for pilot applications is May 29, 1998.

           EPA's Brownfields Job Training and
             Development Demonstration Pilots
The brownfields environmental job training and development
pilots will each be funded up to $200,000 over two years.
These funds are to be used to bring together community groups,
job training organizations, educators, investors, lenders,
developers, and other affected parties to address the issue of
providing training for residents in communities impacted by
brownfields. The goals of the pilots are to facilitate cleanup
of brownfields sites contaminated with hazardous substances
and prepare the trainees for future employment in the
environmental field. 

EPA expects to select approximately 10 Brownfields
Environmental Job Training and Development pilots by the end
of July 1998. Pilot applicants must be located within or near
one of the 121 pre-1998 brownfields assessment pilot
communities (http://www.epa.gov/swerosps/bf/plocat.htm).
Colleges, universities, non-profit training centers, community
job training organizations, states, cities, towns, counties,
U.S. Territories, and Federally recognized Indian Tribes are
eligible to apply for the funds. EPA welcomes and encourages
applications from coalitions of such entities, but a single
eligible entity must be identified as the legal recipient.
Entities with experience in providing environmental job
training and placement programs are invited to apply. The
deadline for the new applications for the 1998 environmental
job training and development pilots is May 29, 1998. 

To get a full copy of the Proposal Guidelines (EPA Publication
Number 500-F-98-142), they can be retrieved on the Web at URL:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/html-doc/jtguide.htm
or call the EPA Superfund/RCRA/EPCRA Hotline at:(800)424-9346

To learn more about Brownfields Workforce Development visit
URL: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/job.htm
 the EPA Brownfields Web Site at

For more information on the overall Brownfields Initiative
visit: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/