[CPEO-BIF] Brownfields Job Training Grants

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA has announced the a funding opportunity for Brownfields Job Training 
Grants. the deadline for submitting proposals is December 1, 2009.

Description

Brownfields Job Training Grants provide funding to governmental entities 
and nonprofit organizations to recruit, train, and place local 
unemployed and under-employed, predominantly low-income and minority 
residents. The goal of the training is to provide these individuals with 
skills needed to acquire full-time, sustainable careers in the green 
economy and brownfields redevelopment work. Brownfields Job Training 
Grants help residents take advantage of the jobs created by the 
assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of brownfields in their 
communities. While Brownfields Job Training Grants focus on hazardous 
waste remediation and cleanup, the program emphasizes the need to 
provide training on innovative and environmentally sustainable 
technologies and certifications aimed at equipping graduates with a 
diversified portfolio of skills needed to secure permanent work in a 
growing green jobs economy. Through the link to on-the-ground 
brownfields redevelopment activities, brownfields job training programs 
expand upon local workforce development efforts by training residents of 
brownfields-impacted communities for environmental jobs that cleanup 
contractors might otherwise fill from outside the community.

For more information, see
http://www.epa.gov/oswer/docs/grants/epa-oswer-oblr-09-07.pdf


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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