[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 169 (Wednesday, September 1, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 53689]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-21837]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Creation of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 ``Environmental Workforce 
Development and Job Training Grants Program,'' Formerly Referred to as 
the ``Brownfields Job Training Grants Program''

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Section 104(k)(5)(A)(iii) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) requires EPA to 
publish guidance to assist applicants in preparing proposals/
applications for grants to provide environmental training to facilitate 
the management, assessment, and cleanup of sites contaminated by solid 
and hazardous waste. EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response 
(OSWER) provides funds to empower States, communities, Tribes and 
nonprofits to prevent, inventory, assess, clean up and reuse sites 
where real or perceived contamination exists and does so by working 
through OSWER's Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization (OBLR); 
Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery; Office of Superfund 
Remediation and Technology Innovation; Office of Underground Storage 
Tanks; Federal Facilities Restoration and Reuse Office; Center for 
Program Analysis; the Innovations, Partnerships, and Communication 
Office; and Office of Emergency Management. In 2010, OBLR lead an 
effort to more closely collaborate on workforce development and job 
training with other programs within OSWER 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 this collaboration, the former 
``Brownfields Job Training Grants Program'' was expanded and will now 
be referred to as the ``Environmental Workforce Development and Job 
Training (EWDJT) Grants Program.'' With the creation of the 
``Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants 
Program,'' EPA is soliciting comments on the new FY2011 Application 
Guidelines through this Federal Register notice, which includes the 
institutional framework of the prior Brownfields Job Training Grants 
Program.

DATES: Publication of this notice will start a ten working day comment 
period on revisions to the FY2011 Brownfields Grant Guidelines. 
Comments will be accepted through September 13, 2010. EPA expects to 
release a Request for Applications (RFA) based on these revised 
application guidelines in October 2010 with an anticipated deadline for 
submission of applications in January 2011.

ADDRESSES: The draft application guidelines/RFA can be downloaded at: 
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/. If you do not have Internet access and 
require hard copies of the draft guidelines please contact Joseph Bruss 
at (202) 566-2772. Please send any comments to Joseph Bruss at 
[email protected] no later than September 13, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: EPA's Office of Solid Waste and 
Emergency Response, Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization, 
(202) 566-2777.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Please note that in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 
553(a)(2), EPA is not undertaking notice and comment rulemaking and has 
not established a docket to receive public comments on the guidelines. 
Rather, the Agency as a matter of policy is soliciting the views of 
interested parties on proposed changes to the application guidelines in 
an effort to make the guidelines as responsive as possible to the needs 
of the public. Please note that these draft guidelines are subject to 
change. Please also note that for EWDJT grants, EPA must continue to 
impose the administrative cost prohibition as that requirement is 
statutory. Additionally, like the Brownfields Job Training Grants, the 
Agency will, as matter of policy, prohibit grantees from using funds to 
support life skills training. Rather, EPA encourages grantees to 
partner with local Workforce Investment Boards to deliver these 
critical services. Organizations interested in applying for funding 
must follow the instructions contained in the final application 
guidelines that EPA will publish on http://www.grants.gov in October 
2010, rather than these draft guidelines.

The Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance entry for this 
competitive funding opportunity includes 66.815, 66.813, and 66.808.

    Dated: August 26, 2010.
David R. Lloyd,
Director, Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization, Office of 
Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
[FR Doc. 2010-21837 Filed 8-31-10; 8:45 am]
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