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BROWNFIELDS COMMUNITIES GET $350,000 IN SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR JOB TRAINING
Release Date: 08/31/2001
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2001
BROWNFIELDS COMMUNITIES GET $350,000 IN
SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR JOB TRAINING
Chris Paulitz 202-564-9556 / paulitz.chris@epa.gov
SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR JOB TRAINING
Chris Paulitz 202-564-9556 / paulitz.chris@epa.gov
EPA has selected the first five recipients of the supplemental brownfields job training pilot grants totaling $350,000 under the Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration Pilots. The grantees will use the supplemental funding to continue their efforts to train residents in communities impacted by brownfields in procedures for the handling and removal of hazardous substances. The goals of the pilots are to facilitate cleanup of brownfields sites contaminated with hazardous substances and prepare trainees for future employment in the environmental field. Brownfields are abandoned, idled or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. Since 1993, the EPA brownfields program has provided over $200 million in assessments, revolving loan fund cleanup and job training grants, resulting in over $3.2 billion in public and private investments leveraged and over 14,000 cleanup and redevelopment jobs generated. The five pilots selected to receive supplemental funding are Jobs for Youth, Boston, Mass.; City of New Bedford, Mass.; Oakland Private Industry Council, Oakland, Calif.; Young Community Developers, San Francisco, Calif.; and King County, Wash. For more information, go to: www.epa.gov/brownfields.
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