This agreement provides funding under the inflation reduction act (IRA)

The agreement provides funding to new york city department of health and mental hygiene. Specifically, the recipient will recover air conditioners made redundant through installation of heat pumps for heating and cooling in building electrification initiatives. Recovered ACS will be either distributed for reuse by new yorkers at risk of heat-related health impacts or recycled after reclaiming refrigerant. A secondary goal is to expand opportunities for jobs that support reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in EJ communities.activities:the activities include: new york city department of health and mental hygiene (DOHMH) coordinating and monitoring the progress of and subsequent hiring into DOHMH's air conditioner (AC) recovery program of new york city housing authority (NYCHA) residents that are to be enrolled in the workforce development program by the clean energy academy and who are given specialized training in AC recovery and other green occupation skills; DOHMH coordinating and monitoring the recruitment activities conducted in-kind by its own climate health program to increase the AC donations by residents of 7,500 NYCHA housing units projected to receive energy-efficient heat pumps through the NYCHA's clean heat for all (CH4A) program and which will generate thousands of redundant window AC units; DOHMH monitoring and passing funds through to the community-based organization big reuse, whose program coordinator, drivers, technicians and laborers, including clean energy academy workforce development hires, will carry out the work of recycling (in coordination with new york city department of sanitation) or redistributing to residents in heat-vulnerable communities those AC units that can be reused for their residential cooling needs; and, DOHMH leading an evaluation program with in-kind support from its own climate health program team to inform potential future implementation of this AC recovery program for other large-scale building electrification projects in new york city. Federal funds are to be expended on DOHMH coordinating, monitoring, or leading the various activities by the in-kind, in-house support and by the self-funded external project partners that must take place for the federal subaward monies to big reuse to be effective in doing the AC recovery work. Subrecipient:subawards will lead the workforce development component of this proposal. The clean energy academy offers participants a six-week course, teaching skills to install solar panels, transform heating and cooling systems, and install and maintain heat pumps. Enrollment in the academy is free, and trainees earn a stipend for participating. Through the academy, they will provide trainees with the skills necessary to assist contractors who will install heat pumps across NYCHA campuses. The NYCHA clean energy academy has set a goal to provide 100 public housing residents with clean energy job training over two years and to place at least 60 trainees into clean energy jobs over two years. For the AC recovery program, the training curriculum will be expanded to instruct participants on assessing and categorizing ACS for reuse, including preparation for redistribution, or for recycling. We anticipate this training component will lead to increased opportunity for employment as installation of heat pumps across city buildings becomes more common, making existing window AC units redundant.outcomes:the anticipated deliverables include an estimated 2,000 redundant window air conditioner (AC) units being redistributed to new yorkers and an estimated 2,0000 redundant window AC units being properly disposed of and recycled. Because federal funds are to be expended in the coordination, monitoring or other leadership thereof, anticipated deliverables in support of the AC recovery work also include: 1) a workforce development curriculum adapted to include AC