Job Corps: Preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Proposed Job Corps Center To Be Located North of Roosevelt Highway Between Washington Road and Interstate 285 in College Park, GA, 33534-33535 [E7-11714]
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information to the system manager in
accordance with the procedures
outlined above. State clearly and
concisely the information being
contested, the reasons for contesting it,
and the proposed amendment to the
information sought.
Copies of the EA are available to
interested parties by contacting Michael
F. O’Malley, Architect, Unit Chief of
Facilities, U.S. Department of Labor,
Office of the Secretary (OSEC), 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N–
4460, Washington, DC 20210, (202) 693–
3108 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
Environmental Assessment (EA)
summary addresses the proposed
construction of a new Job Corps Center
near College Park, Georgia. The site for
the proposed Job Corps Center is
comprised of four parcels of land owned
by VFH Captive Insurance Company
which total approximately 25.4 acres.
The property is currently undeveloped
and wooded with the exception of three
abandoned residential properties and an
abandoned automotive repair garage.
The new center will require
construction of ten (10) buildings
including eight (8) single-story
buildings and two (2) two-story
buildings. The proposed Job Corps
center will provide housing, training,
and support services for approximately
515 students. The current facility
utilization plan includes include a
vocational-educational building,
cafeteria/culinary arts building, child
development center, recreation
building, medical/dental building,
maintenance/warehouse building,
administration offices, and new
dormitories.
The construction of the Job Corps
Center on this proposed site would be
a positive asset to the area in terms of
environmental and socioeconomic
improvements, and long-term
productivity. The proposed Job Corps
Center will be a new source of
employment opportunity for people in
the Atlanta Metropolitan area. The Job
Corps program provides basic
education, vocational skills training,
work experience, counseling, health
care and related support services. The
program is designed to graduate
students who are ready to participate in
the local economy.
The proposed project will not have
any significant adverse impact on any
natural systems or resources. No state or
federal threatened or endangered
species (proposed or listed) have been
identified on the subject property.
The Job Corps Center construction
will not affect any existing historic
structures, as there are no historic or
archeologically sensitive areas on the
proposed property parcel.
Air quality and noise levels should
not be affected by the proposed
development project. Due to the nature
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Job Corps: Preliminary Finding of No
Significant Impact (FONSI) for the
Proposed Job Corps Center To Be
Located North of Roosevelt Highway
Between Washington Road and
Interstate 285 in College Park, GA
Office of the Secretary (OSEC),
Department of Labor.
ACTION: Preliminary Finding of No
Significant Impact (FONSI) for the
Proposed Job Corps Center to be located
north of Roosevelt Highway between
Washington Road and Interstate 285 in
College Park, Georgia.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Council on
Environmental Quality Regulations (40
CFR part 1500–08) implementing
procedural provisions of the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the
Department of Labor, Office of the
Secretary (OSEC), in accordance with 29
CFR 11.11(d), gives notice that an
Environmental Assessment (EA) has
been prepared for a proposed new Job
Corps Center to be located in College
Park, Georgia, and that the proposed
plan for a new Job Corps Center will
have no significant environmental
impact. This Preliminary Finding of No
Significant Impact (FONSI) will be
made available for public review and
comment for a period of 30 days.
DATES: Comments must be submitted by
July 18, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Any comment(s) are to be
submitted to Michael F. O’Malley,
Office of the Secretary (OSEC),
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Room N–4460,
Washington, DC 20210, (202) 693–3108
(this is not a toll-free number).
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of the proposed project, it would not be
a significant source of air pollutants or
additional noise, except possibly during
construction of the facility. All
construction activities will be
conducted in accordance with
applicable noise and air pollution
regulations, and all pollution sources
will be permitted in accordance with
applicable pollution control regulations.
The proposed Job Corps Center is not
expected to significantly increase the
vehicle traffic in the vicinity, since
many of the Job Corps Center residents
will either live at the Job Corps Center
or use public transportation. While
some Job Corps Center students and
staff may use personal vehicles, their
number would not result in a significant
increase in vehicular traffic in the area.
Access is planned from Roosevelt
Highway. Road improvements and/or
installation of signals to facilitate site
ingress/egress do not appear necessary.
Public transportation will be provided
by Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority which provides bus and
shuttle routes throughout Metropolitan
Atlanta. Bus Route 88 travels along
Washington Road which bounds the
west side of the proposed Job Corp
Center site. There are a number of
connecting bus routes within walking
distance of the site.
The proposed project will not have
any significant adverse impact on the
surrounding water, sewer, and storm
water management infrastructure. The
new buildings to be constructed for the
proposed Job Corps Center will be tied
in to the existing City of Atlanta
Watershed Management system. The
new buildings to be constructed for the
proposed Job Corps Center will also be
tied in to the existing Fulton County
wastewater treatment system.
Georgia Power would provide the
electricity for the site. This is not
expected to create any significant
impact to the regional utility
infrastructure.
No significant adverse affects to local
medical, emergency, fire, and police
services are anticipated. The primary
medical provider located closest to the
proposed Job Corps parcel is South
Fulton Medical Center, approximately 6
miles from the proposed Job Corps
Center. Nevertheless, the Job Corps
center will have a small medical and
dental facility as part of the campus for
use by the residents, as necessary for
providing a ward for sick students with
the flu or small non-emergency
incapacities. Security services at the Job
Corps will be provided by the center’s
security staff. Law enforcement services
are provided by the Fulton County
Police Department, located
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approximately 2.3 miles from the
proposed project site. Local fire stations
are provided by the Fulton County Fire
Department. The fire department has
two stations which operate 24 hours a
day near the proposed site. Both stations
are less than 10 minutes away and will
provide all of the necessary fire
protection for the center in the near
future.
The proposed project will not have a
significant adverse sociological effect on
the surrounding community. Similarly,
the proposed project will not have a
significant adverse effect on
demographic and socioeconomic
characteristics of the area.
The alternatives considered in the
preparation of this FONSI were as
follows: (1) No Action; and (2) Continue
Project as Proposed. The No Action
alternative was not selected. The U.S.
Department of Labor’s goal of improving
the Job Corps Program by improving the
learning environment at Job Corps
Centers would not be met under this
alternative. Due to the suitability of the
proposed site for establishment of a new
Job Corps Center, and the absence of any
identified significant adverse
environmental impacts from locating a
Job Corps Center on the subject
property, the ‘‘Continue Project as
Proposed’’ alternative was selected.
Based on the information gathered
during the preparation of the EA, no
environmental liabilities, current or
historical, were found to exist on the
proposed Job Corps Center site. The
construction of the Job Corps Center at
the Roosevelt Highway between
Washington Road and Interstate 285 in
College Park, Georgia will not create any
significant adverse impacts on the
environment.
Dated: June 6, 2007.
Esther R. Johnson,
National Director of Job Corps.
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offender recidivism. We are seeking
paper concepts for recently completed
papers or papers that will be completed
prior to the conference. We encourage
contributions by researchers from
academia, state or local agencies,
business organizations, labor
associations, research consulting firms
and other relevant organizations.
Context: Each year more than 650,000
inmates are released from Federal and
State prisons and return to their
communities and families. Released
prisoners face many challenges that
contribute to a return to criminal
activity, re-arrest, and re-incarceration.
Joblessness among ex-prisoners has
been linked to recidivism rates.1
Unemployment among ex-prisoners
has been estimated at between 25 and
40 percent.2 Prisoners also demonstrate
low levels of educational attainment.
Forty percent of adult state prisoners are
functionally illiterate and over half of
state parole entrants are not high school
graduates.3
The White House National Summit on
Prisoner Reentry will focus on issues
related to impacts, trends, and
challenges of prisoner reentry into
society, both pre-release and postrelease. In addition, this conference will
focus on the positive outcomes that
faith-based and community
organizations and the correctional
system can have on lowering recidivism
and raising employment for exoffenders.
Possible topics may include, but are
not limited to:
1. The impact on recidivism,4 if any,
of an offender’s 5 sustained participation
in and completion of:
• Any mentoring program involving a
volunteer meeting (in person or by
video-conference) at least monthly with
an offender for at least the last 90 days
before and/or the first 90 days after
release;
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Center for Faith-Based & Community
Initiatives; Call for Papers; White
House National Summit on Prisoner
Reentry
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November 27–28, 2007.
Summary: The White House and the
U.S. Departments of Labor and Justice
issue this call for papers to evaluate
whether an offender’s sustained
participation in and completion of any
pre-release program in a correctional
system or post-release service or
program through faith-based and
community organizations impacts ex-
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1 According to the DOJ, almost three out of five
returning inmates will be rearrested and charged
with new crimes within three years of their release
from prison.
2 Joan Petersilia, When Prisoners Come Home:
Parole and Prisoner Reentry (Oxford : Oxford
University Press, 2003), 119 (citing Peter Finn,
Successful Job Placement for Ex-Offenders: The
Center for Employment Opportunities. Washington,
DC: National Institute of Justice).
3 Joan Petersilia, When Prisoners Come Home:
Parole and Prisoner Reentry (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2003), 32 (citing Gwen Rubinstein,
Getting to Work: How TANF Can Support ExOffender Parents in the Transition to SelfSufficiency (Washington, DC: Legal Action Center,
2001).
4 Defined most liberally as re-arrest (not
necessarily re-incarceration) for parole violation or
for new offense within 36 months after release.
5 Defined as adult or juvenile, male or female
incarcerated offender.
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• Any post-release program
administered by a faith-based or
community organization that
emphasizes job training, job placement,
mentoring, or other transitional services;
• Regular, sustained pre-release
participation by inmates in vocational
training or compensated, skilled prison
industry;
• Any pre-release program in which
inmates have parenting-enrichment
training and regular (at least semimonthly) contact (in person or by videoconference) with one or more of their
minor children;
• Any pre-release program in which
female inmates have daily contact with
their infant children on-site;
• Regular (at least weekly), sustained
pre-release participation by inmates in
faith-based or philosophical meetings;
• Any post-release program that
includes a housing component;
• Any pre-release program
(residential or non-residential) in a
correctional system in which inmates
pursue a curriculum on reintegration
into their community from a faith-,
character-, or philosophically-based
perspective;
• Any post-release program of reentry services (e.g., job placement,
substance abuse therapy, transitional
housing) in which ex-offenders have a
genuine choice of service providers,
faith-based and secular;
• Any pre-release program in which
most or all inmates apply and are
selected to be housed in the same
correctional facility wherein religious or
cognitive behavior curriculum and
intensive religious programming are
provided or required (including ‘‘faithbased prisons’’);
2. A survey of the domestic and/or
international academic literature on any
of the offender reentry programs listed
as a topic under part 1.
3. Other research on the impact of
Faith-Based and Community
Organizations on the ability of exoffenders to successfully reintegrate into
society following incarceration (with a
particular emphasis on employment and
recidivism).
Sponsoring Agencies
The mission of the Department of
Labor (DOL) Center for Faith-Based &
Community Initiatives (CFBCI) is to
empower faith-based and community
organizations as they help their
neighbors prepare for, enter, and thrive
in the workforce. The CFBCI works to
cultivate public-nonprofit-private
partnerships nationwide to make
services more effective such as new
grant opportunities and pilot projects,
cost-free training for faith-based and
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Job Corps: Preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)
for the Proposed Job Corps Center To Be Located North of Roosevelt
Highway Between Washington Road and Interstate 285 in College Park, GA
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OSEC), Department of Labor.
ACTION: Preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the
Proposed Job Corps Center to be located north of Roosevelt Highway
between Washington Road and Interstate 285 in College Park, Georgia.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations
(40 CFR part 1500-08) implementing procedural provisions of the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Department of Labor,
Office of the Secretary (OSEC), in accordance with 29 CFR 11.11(d),
gives notice that an Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared
for a proposed new Job Corps Center to be located in College Park,
Georgia, and that the proposed plan for a new Job Corps Center will
have no significant environmental impact. This Preliminary Finding of
No Significant Impact (FONSI) will be made available for public review
and comment for a period of 30 days.
DATES: Comments must be submitted by July 18, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Any comment(s) are to be submitted to Michael F. O'Malley,
Office of the Secretary (OSEC), Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Room N-4460, Washington, DC 20210, (202) 693-3108 (this is
not a toll-free number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of the EA are available to
interested parties by contacting Michael F. O'Malley, Architect, Unit
Chief of Facilities, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Secretary
(OSEC), 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N-4460, Washington, DC
20210, (202) 693-3108 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Environmental Assessment (EA) summary
addresses the proposed construction of a new Job Corps Center near
College Park, Georgia. The site for the proposed Job Corps Center is
comprised of four parcels of land owned by VFH Captive Insurance
Company which total approximately 25.4 acres. The property is currently
undeveloped and wooded with the exception of three abandoned
residential properties and an abandoned automotive repair garage.
The new center will require construction of ten (10) buildings
including eight (8) single-story buildings and two (2) two-story
buildings. The proposed Job Corps center will provide housing,
training, and support services for approximately 515 students. The
current facility utilization plan includes include a vocational-
educational building, cafeteria/culinary arts building, child
development center, recreation building, medical/dental building,
maintenance/warehouse building, administration offices, and new
dormitories.
The construction of the Job Corps Center on this proposed site
would be a positive asset to the area in terms of environmental and
socioeconomic improvements, and long-term productivity. The proposed
Job Corps Center will be a new source of employment opportunity for
people in the Atlanta Metropolitan area. The Job Corps program provides
basic education, vocational skills training, work experience,
counseling, health care and related support services. The program is
designed to graduate students who are ready to participate in the local
economy.
The proposed project will not have any significant adverse impact
on any natural systems or resources. No state or federal threatened or
endangered species (proposed or listed) have been identified on the
subject property.
The Job Corps Center construction will not affect any existing
historic structures, as there are no historic or archeologically
sensitive areas on the proposed property parcel.
Air quality and noise levels should not be affected by the proposed
development project. Due to the nature of the proposed project, it
would not be a significant source of air pollutants or additional
noise, except possibly during construction of the facility. All
construction activities will be conducted in accordance with applicable
noise and air pollution regulations, and all pollution sources will be
permitted in accordance with applicable pollution control regulations.
The proposed Job Corps Center is not expected to significantly
increase the vehicle traffic in the vicinity, since many of the Job
Corps Center residents will either live at the Job Corps Center or use
public transportation. While some Job Corps Center students and staff
may use personal vehicles, their number would not result in a
significant increase in vehicular traffic in the area. Access is
planned from Roosevelt Highway. Road improvements and/or installation
of signals to facilitate site ingress/egress do not appear necessary.
Public transportation will be provided by Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid
Transit Authority which provides bus and shuttle routes throughout
Metropolitan Atlanta. Bus Route 88 travels along Washington Road which
bounds the west side of the proposed Job Corp Center site. There are a
number of connecting bus routes within walking distance of the site.
The proposed project will not have any significant adverse impact
on the surrounding water, sewer, and storm water management
infrastructure. The new buildings to be constructed for the proposed
Job Corps Center will be tied in to the existing City of Atlanta
Watershed Management system. The new buildings to be constructed for
the proposed Job Corps Center will also be tied in to the existing
Fulton County wastewater treatment system.
Georgia Power would provide the electricity for the site. This is
not expected to create any significant impact to the regional utility
infrastructure.
No significant adverse affects to local medical, emergency, fire,
and police services are anticipated. The primary medical provider
located closest to the proposed Job Corps parcel is South Fulton
Medical Center, approximately 6 miles from the proposed Job Corps
Center. Nevertheless, the Job Corps center will have a small medical
and dental facility as part of the campus for use by the residents, as
necessary for providing a ward for sick students with the flu or small
non-emergency incapacities. Security services at the Job Corps will be
provided by the center's security staff. Law enforcement services are
provided by the Fulton County Police Department, located
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approximately 2.3 miles from the proposed project site. Local fire
stations are provided by the Fulton County Fire Department. The fire
department has two stations which operate 24 hours a day near the
proposed site. Both stations are less than 10 minutes away and will
provide all of the necessary fire protection for the center in the near
future.
The proposed project will not have a significant adverse
sociological effect on the surrounding community. Similarly, the
proposed project will not have a significant adverse effect on
demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the area.
The alternatives considered in the preparation of this FONSI were
as follows: (1) No Action; and (2) Continue Project as Proposed. The No
Action alternative was not selected. The U.S. Department of Labor's
goal of improving the Job Corps Program by improving the learning
environment at Job Corps Centers would not be met under this
alternative. Due to the suitability of the proposed site for
establishment of a new Job Corps Center, and the absence of any
identified significant adverse environmental impacts from locating a
Job Corps Center on the subject property, the ``Continue Project as
Proposed'' alternative was selected.
Based on the information gathered during the preparation of the EA,
no environmental liabilities, current or historical, were found to
exist on the proposed Job Corps Center site. The construction of the
Job Corps Center at the Roosevelt Highway between Washington Road and
Interstate 285 in College Park, Georgia will not create any significant
adverse impacts on the environment.
Dated: June 6, 2007.
Esther R. Johnson,
National Director of Job Corps.
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