[CPEO-BIF] Announcement of EPA's Brownfields Job Training Pilots

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[Federal Register: November 16, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 220)]
[Notices]              
[Page 62200-62201]
-From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr16no99-78]                        
                   
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
                   
[FRL-6476-2]
                   
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
(CERCLA) or Superfund, Section 311(b)(9)(A), CERCLA Section 311(b)(3);
Announcement of Competition for EPA's Brownfields Job Training and
Development Demonstration Pilots
                   
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
                   
ACTION: Notice.
                   
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency will begin accepting
applications for Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration
Pilots through March 3, 2000. The application period will close March 3,
2000 and the Agency intends to competitively select ten Pilots by May, 2000.
                   
DATES: This action is effective November 16, 1999. All proposals must be
received by March 3, 2000.
ADDRESSES: Interested applicants must submit a response to the

Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilot Guidelines.
Job training guidelines can be obtained via the
Internet:http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/, or by calling the Superfund
Hotline at 1-800-424-9346 (TDD for the hearing impaired at 1-800-553-7672). 
                   
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency
Response, Myra Blakely, Outreach and Special Projects Staff, (202) 260-4527
or Nancy Wilson at (202) 260-1910.
                   
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Brownfields Job Training and Development
Demonstration 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, employers, 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. The pilot projects must prepare trainees in activities
that can be usefully applied to a cleanup employing an alternative or
innovative technology.

EPA expects to select approximately 10 Brownfields Environmental Job
Training and Development pilots by the end of May 2000. Pilot applicants
must be located within or near one of the 307 pre-2000 brownfields
assessment pilot communities. Colleges, universities, non- profit training
centers, community-based job training organizations, states, cities, towns,
counties, U.S. Territories, and Federally recognized Indian Tribes are
eligible to apply for 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 applications is March 3, 2000. 

EPA's Brownfields Initiative is an organized commitment to help communities
revitalize abandoned contaminated properties, and to thereby eliminate
potential health risks and restore economic vitality to areas where these
properties exist. EPA defines brownfields as abandoned, idled or under-used
industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is
complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.
                   
Submission to Congress and the General Accounting Office
                   
The Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the Small
                   
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Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides
that before a rule may take effect, the agency promulgating the rule must
submit a rule report, which includes a copy of the rule, to each House of
the Congress and to the Comptroller General of the United States. EPA will
submit a report containing this action and other required information to
the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Comptroller
General of the United States prior to publication of the rule in the
Federal Register. This action is not a ``major rule'' as defined by 5
U.S.C. 804(2).
                   
Dated: October 26, 1999.
Linda Garczynski,
Director, Outreach and Special Projects Staff, Office of Solid Waste and
Emergency Response.
[FR Doc. 99-29896 Filed 11-15-99; 8:45 am]
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