[CPEO-BIF] EPA BF Job Training & Dev. Demonstration Pilots

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Reminder - Deadline is 10/16/00 for Receipt of Applications for EPA's 
Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots

All proposals must be received by October 16, 2000.

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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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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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, Number 137)]
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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 Workforce Development 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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