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Statutory Authority for Senior Environmental Employment (SEE) Cooperative Agreements and Activities Allowed Under the SEE Program
The statutory authority for all SEE Cooperative Agreements is the ''Environmental Programs Assistance Act of 1984" (PL. 98-313). See Figure 1-1.
The Act authorizes the Administrator of the EPA "to make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements, with private, nonprofit organizations designated by the Secretary of Labor under Title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965." These cooperative agreements are to utilize the talents of older Americans in temporary full time or part time positions "providing technical assistance to Federal, State, and local environmental agencies for projects of pollution prevention, abatement, and control."
"Technical assistance" may include any activity performed for the EPA in support of its projects of pollution prevention, abatement, and control ranging from for example, inspections of schools for asbestos, to support for a Headquarters staff office. This allows for the coverage of all types of SEE Program positions from professional to clerical.
SEE enrollees may not perform non delegable Federal, State, or local employee functions. Those functions include activities which could commit the Federal, State, or local government office to action, and which directly control the commitment and obligation of Federal funds. For example, they cannot serve as official EPA timekeepers.
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