Local residents will be trained to become environmental technicians to help clean up brownfield sites through a $50,000 supplemental grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The grant to the city of Flint is part of the Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative.
Seventy participants will be trained and 75 percent of them will be placed in permanent environmental technical jobs. Their work will focus specifically on cleaning up the abandoned industrial and commercial sites in Flint's Enterprise Community.
"We must provide the resources and training to maintain and preserve the health of the environment so that these areas can be safely used by future occupants," said U.S. Rep. Dale E. Kildee, D-Flint, in announcing the grant.
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