The Senior Environmental Employnient Program began some years ago as a demonstration project jointly supported by the Administration on Aging in the then Department of Health. Education and Welfare. and the Environmental Protection Agency. The primary purpose of the project was to demonstrate ways in which older Americans could be effectively employed in jobs relating to the provention. abatement and control of environmental pollution. Over several years. considerable experience was accumulated with older workers In environmental protection activities. Older workers surveyed waste dumps. conducted surveys of hazardous waste products produced by industries. studied the extent to which migrant workers were exposed to pesticides. among other activities. Then. In 1984.