[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 246 (Wednesday, December 23, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 71117]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34043]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-6208-1]
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.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency will begin accepting
applications for Brownfields Job Training and Development Demonstration
Pilots through March 1, 1999. The application period will close March
1, 1999 and the Agency intends to competitively select ten Pilots by
June, 1999.
DATES: This action is effective as of the date of publication in the
Federal Register. All proposals must be received by March 1, 1999.
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 Nancy Wilson at (202) 260-1910.
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 June 1999. Pilot
applicants must be located within or near one of the 226 pre-1999
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 March 1, 1999.
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.
Date Signed: December 14, 1998.
Linda Garczynski,
Director, Outreach and Special Projects Staff, Office of Solid Waste
and Emergency Response.
[FR Doc. 98-34043 Filed 12-22-98; 8:45 am]
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