Deadline: 19-Apr-22
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting applications from eligible applicants to reduce lead in drinking water in disadvantaged communities through full lead service line replacements and/or treatment improvements or facility remediation in schools and child care facilities.
The goal of these projects is to address conditions that contribute to increased concentrations of lead in drinking water in disadvantaged communities. The lead reduction projects should proceed to implementation upon award.
National Priority Areas
National Priority Areas identified in this announcement are for:
- Reduction of Lead Exposure in the Nation’s Drinking Water Systems through Full Lead Service Line Replacements and Treatment Improvements and
- Reduction of Children’s Exposure to Lead in Drinking Water at Schools and Child Care Facilities. Assisting drinking water systems, schools, child care facilities, and communities nationwide to remediate sources of lead in their drinking water to minimize lead exposure is a key priority for the Agency.
Funding Information
- The total estimated amount of federal funding potentially available under this announcement is approximately $20,000,000 depending on Agency funding levels, the quality of applications received, and other applicable considerations.
- It is anticipated that approximately one to two assistance agreements will be awarded for National Priority Area 1, Reduction of Lead Exposure in the Nation’s Drinking Water Systems through Full Lead Service Line Replacements and Treatment Improvements and two to five assistance agreements will be awarded for National Priority Area 2, Reduction of Children’s Exposure to Lead in Drinking Water.
- It is anticipated that awards made under National Priority Area 1 will total approximately $10,000,000 and that awards made under National Priority Area 2 will also total approximately $10,000,000 of federal funds.
Outcomes
Environmental outcomes are the result, effect, or consequence that will occur from carrying out an environmental program or activity that is related to the environmental or programmatic goal or objective. Outcomes may be environmental, behavioral, health-related, or programmatic in nature. Outcomes should be quantitative and may not necessarily be achieved within the assistance agreement funding period. Outcomes may be short-term (changes in behavior, practice, or decisions), intermediate (changes in behavior, practice or decisions), or long-term (changes in the condition of the natural resource).
Eligibility Criteria
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Eligible applicants under this competition include the following. Individuals and for-profit organizations are not eligible to apply.
- Community water systems, for example, a town’s drinking water system.
- Water systems located in an area governed by an Indian Tribe.
- Non-transient non-community water systems, for example, schools, factories, office buildings, and hospitals that have their own water systems.
- Qualified nonprofit organizations1 servicing a public water system, such as a nonprofit community organization.
- Municipalities.
- State, interstate, or intermunicipal agencies, such as a department of environmental protection, an interstate environmental commission, or a joint municipal pollution control board.
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