The Biden administration is launching the American Climate Corps training program for 20,000 young people that’ll prepare them for jobs in clean energy and climate resilience sectors, the White House announced in a press release Wednesday.

The initiative, created through executive action, is part of President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda, which supplied billions of dollars in federal funding for jobs in infrastructure, clean energy, semiconductors and biotechnology.

While the program is paid, the Biden administration did not release specifics on what the wages would be.

It’s modeled after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies of the 1930s, specifically the Civilian Conservation Corps, which created millions of jobs for men between the ages of 18 and 25 working on environmental projects during the Great Depression.

According to the press release, the program will put young people to work conserving and restoring around 21 million acres of public land and water, bolstering community resilience, deploying clean energy, implementing energy efficient technologies and advancing environmental justice.

An interest form released on the climate corps website asks prospective members to specify if they’re interested in training related to clean energy, coastal restoration or agriculture projects, among other sustainable career paths.

The program is set to create pathways to careers in environmental industries in public and private sectors once graduates complete the training course. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics shows that environmental employment is projected to grow over the next 10 years.

Similar programs currently exist in 10 states, including California, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, Washington, Arizona, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina and Utah.

It’s not clear how much the initiative will cost, but the Investing in American plan set aside $17.4 billion to bolster funding to tackle climate change and other threats in communities across the country.

Prior to the announcement, the administration already set aside $500 million for “good-paying union jobs,” the release noted.

Democratic lawmakers praised Biden’s decision to create the initiative.

“This is a major victory,” Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, calling the program a “monumental step forward in our fight against climate change.”

In a statement also posted to X, Sunrise Movement, an organization advocating for more employment in the climate change sector, said that the move was a long-time coming.

“This didn’t happen overnight,” the statement read. “We began the fight for a climate corps in 2020 and spent the last three years organizing our communities, protesting, building coalitions and pushing our leaders to stand with our generation.”