Brownfields and Land Revitalization

In 2010, the Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization (OBLR) led an effort to more closely collaborate on workforce development and job training with other programs within EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER), including the Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery (ORCR), Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation (OSRTI), Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST), Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse (FFRRO), Center for Program Analysis (CPA), Innovation, Partnerships and Communication Office (IPCO), and the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) to develop a job training cooperative agreement opportunity that includes expanded training in other environmental media outside the traditional scope of just brownfields. As a result of these discussions, the "Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants Program," formerly known as the "Brownfields Job Training Grants Program," now allows applicants to deliver additional hazardous and solid waste training.

Through an annual grant competition, Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training grant funds are provided to nonprofit organizations and other eligible entities to recruit, train, and place predominantly low-income and minority, unemployed and under-employed residents from solid and hazardous waste-impacted communities. Residents learn the skills needed to secure full-time, sustainable, employment in the environmental field, including a focus on assessment and cleanup activities. These grants help to create green jobs that reduce environmental contamination and build more sustainable futures for communities.

This cooperative agreement program also supports OSWER's Community Engagement Initiative, which is designed to enhance OSWER and regional offices' engagement with local communities and stakeholders (e.g., state and local governments, tribes, academia, private industry, other federal agencies, non-profit organizations) in an effort to improve meaningful public participation in government decisions dealing with land cleanup, emergency preparedness and response, and the management of hazardous substances and waste.

Please note that some of the documents on this page (and their associated links) were created before the title of the program was changed.

• Grant Information
• Brownfields Job Development and Training Toolbox
• Reports & Success Stories
• Other Grant & Funding Opportunities
• Resources & Information

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Grant Information

• Grant Announcements
• Grant Fact Sheets
• Apply for Funding (Most Recent Proposal Guidelines)
• For Current Job Training Grantees, Report Grant Activities in ACRES

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Brownfields Job Development and Training Toolbox

• The Brownfields Toolbox was created by the Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute (HMTRI) and provides EPA's Brownfields stakeholders with the knowledge and tools necessary to undertake activities that will maximize environmental job development, education, and employment opportunities. The Toolbox provides information to Grantees on how conduct a Brownfields Job Training Program including links to sample curricula, Professional Learning Community (PLC) resources, placement of graduates, community marketing, as well as many other resources.
• To subscribe to the HMTRI Brownfields Job Training Program listserv, send an e-mail to HMTRI (ghanne@eicc.edu) with your grant name and contact information.
• Current Job Training grantees can send an e-mail to HMTRI (ghanne@eicc.edu) with their grant name and contact information to join the HMTRI listserv, which facilitates discussion of job training issues among grantees.

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Reports & Success Stories

• Brownfields Job Training Success Stories, April 2011 (PDF) (7 pp, 930K, about PDF)
• Job Training Grant Brochure, March 2011 (PDF) (2 pp, 1M, about PDF)
• Job Training Report: "Improving Land and Lives: 10 Years of Investment in EPA's Job Training Program" (PDF) (20 pp, 994K, about PDF)
  This report chronicles the evolution of EPA's Brownfields Job Training Program, describes the components that made individual grantee programs successful, presents some of the challenges those programs faced, and highlights individuals whose lives were forever changed by their participation in the Program.
• Job Training Success Stories

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Other Grant & Funding Opportunities

• Grants.gov
• National Institutes for Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
• U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration
• U.S. Department of Labor Microenterprise Grants Program

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Resources & Information

• The Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center
• American Association of Community Colleges
• American Green Jobs
• Apollo Alliance
• Brownfields Toolbox
• Career Onestop
• Community Training and Response Center
• Green for All
• Homebuilders Institute
• Interstate Renewable Energy Council
• National Association of Workforce Boards
• National Council for Work Experience
• National Council for Workforce Education
• National Environmental Health Association
• Online Curricula Database
• Transportation Workforce Development
• The United States Conference of Mayors Workforce Development Council
• U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education
• U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• U.S. Department of Labor, Workforce Investment
• U.S. EPA, Office of Environmental Justice
• U.S. EPA, State and Local Climate and Energy Program

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