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Brownfields 2025 Job Training Fact Sheet

Eco Ed Impact Corp, Miami Metropolitan Area, Florida

EPA Information

Region: EPA Region 4 Brownfields Team
Phone: 404-562-8534
Website: https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/r4

Publication Information

Office:
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Land and Emergency Management (5105T)
Washington, D.C. 20460
Publication Number:
EPA 560-F-24-224
Publication Date:
December 2024

Job Training Grant

$500,000.00

EPA has selected Eco Ed Impact Corp for a Brownfields Job Training Grant. Eco Ed Impact Corp plans to train 80 students and place 45 in environmental jobs. The training program includes 148 hours of instructional training, as detailed in the chart below. Students who complete the training will earn up to two state and four federal certifications. Eco Ed Impact Corp is targeting unemployed, underemployed, and economically underserved adults, as well as veterans within Hallandale Beach, West Park, Miami Gardens, and Dania Beach within the Miami Metropolitan Area. Key partners include CareerSource Florida, Ecosystem Service Staffing, EnSafe Inc., the Family Government Agency, the Friends of the Dania Beach Paul DeMaio Library, the Miami-Dade County Community Emergency Response Team, SCS Engineers, the South Florida Regional Planning Council, State Representative Marie Woodson, and the Sustainable Workforce Alliance.

For further information, including specific grant contacts, additional grant information, brownfields news and events, and publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields Web site (http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).

Grant Recipient Information

Name: Eco Ed Impact Corp
Address: Specific training facility addresses not yet determined
Contact: Alexandra Hughes, a.hughes@ecoedimpact.org, (305) 760-9140
Website:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecoedimpactcorp/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ecoedimpactcorp/
Twitter: https://x.com/ecoedimpactcorp
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0t83CqGNs3ExRAUJew4Grg
Certificates & Technical Curriculum Supported by EPA
  • 40-Hour HAZWOPER
  • CPR/First Aid/AED
Other Curriculum
  • IS-5.A: An Introduction to Hazardous Materials
  • Community Emergency Response Training (CERT)
  • Confined Space Entry and Non-Entry Rescue
  • OSHA Disaster Site Worker
  • Mold Remediation and Renovation
  • Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting
  • Environmental Justice
  • Soil and Water Sampling
  • Environmental Awareness/Sustainable Practices/Community Issues/Environmental Justice Concepts
Additional Skills and Services
  • Workshops on Values and Legacy
  • Budgeting Skills
  • Family Governance
  • Soft Skills
  • Value Integration

Overview of the EPA Brownfields Program

EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, Tribal Nations, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002, as amended by the Brownfields Utilization, Investment and Local Development Act of 2018, was passed to help states, Tribal Nations, and communities around the country clean up and revitalize brownfield sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible applicants through five competitive grant programs: Multipurpose Grants, Assessment Grants, Revolving Loan Fund Grants, Cleanup Grants, and Brownfields Job Training Grants. Additionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal response programs through a separate mechanism.

Brownfields Job Training Grant funds are provided to nonprofit organizations and other eligible entities to recruit and train unemployed and underemployed residents from communities affected by environmental pollution, economic disinvestment, and brownfields and place them in environmental jobs. Since the program was created in 1998, EPA has awarded 430 job training grants totaling over $113.1 million through Brownfield Job Training Programs. With these grants, approximately 23,460 individuals have completed training and over 17,450 individuals have been placed in careers related to land remediation and environmental health and safety. This equates to a cumulative placement rate of approximately 74 percent. The average starting wage for these jobs over the last five years is approximately $23 an hour.


The information presented in this fact sheet comes from the grant application; EPA cannot attest to the accuracy of the information. The cooperative agreement is negotiated after the selection announcement. Therefore, the funding amount and activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
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