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Announcement of Competition for EPA's Brownfields Job Training and
Development Demonstration Pilots

Federal Register Notice

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 (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.
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For a copy of the Proposal Guidelines
(Publication Number: EPA 500-F-00-213 July 2000),
visit: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/job.htm#app
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency will begin accepting
applications for Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration
Pilots through October 16, 2000. The application period will close October
16, 2000 and the Agency intends to competitively select ten Pilots by

December 2000. All funding will be contingent upon availability of
appropriated funds.

DATES: This action is effective July 17, 2000. All proposals must be
received by October 16, 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 Doris Thompson at (202) 260-4483.

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 December 2000. Pilot
applicants must be located within or near one of
the 362 pre-2001 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
October 16, 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
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).


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[Federal Register: July 17, 2000 (Volume 65,
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For a copy of the Proposal Guidelines (Publication Number: EPA 500-F-00-213
July 2000), visit: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/job.htm#app

For more information on the U.S. EPA's Brownfields Job Training and
Development Demonstration Pilots, visit the Brownfields Workforce
Development page at: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/job.htm

For more information on the all U.S. EPA's
Brownfields Pilots visit the Brownfields Pilots and Demonstrations
page at: http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/pilot.htm

For general information on the U.S. EPA's Brownfields Program visit:
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/

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