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EPA assists states and federally recognized tribes to provide radon risk reduction through activities that will result in increased radon testing, mitigation, and radon resistant new construction through the authorizing statute: Title III of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Indoor Radon Abatement Act (IRAA), Section 306. States and tribes are encouraged to implement projects focused on assisting state radon programs, addressing low-income population exposure, expanding radon testing of existing homes, increasing mitigation of homes with high radon levels, and promoting radon-resistant new construction. Funding Priorities - Fiscal Year 2024: Recipients will focus on adopting, or seeking to adopt, radon building codes for single family homes, expanding coverage and seeking opportunities to assist underserved communities, promoting radon awareness through the medical community, state cancer control plans, childcare providers and real estate transactions, providing training and technical support on voluntary consensus standards for radon testing and mitigation, identifying and spreading best practices for building homes radon resistant and adopting radon in building codes, providing radon awareness building and/or education activities that target homebuyers, informing local school systems about radon exposure risk in schools and providing sample school testing and mitigation plans, developing or implementing processes to ensure appropriate, certification or credentialing of radon testing and mitigation service providers, collecting available radon test result data to develop locality-specific classifications of radon risks and to support the CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network radon site. The EPA will encourage state and tribal grant recipients to work collaboratively with additional government agencies, non-profit organizations and private sector partners participating in the National Radon Action Plan (NRAP). (Please see The National Radon Action Plan - A Strategy for Saving Lives for the current plan and more information.)
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Not available The SIRG program awarded $7,998,20445 to 45 state and 6 tribal programs in FY16; 6 Tribes received approximately $200,000 in funding in FY16. Program priority areas addressed: • radon-resistant new construction techniques in new homes and schools; • disclosure, testing, and mitigation in conjunction with residential real estate transactions; • developing radon programs in high-risk areas; • activities that improve the effectiveness and viability of the program; • developing coalitions that work in partnership with local governments, Partner affiliates and others interested in reducing the risk of radon; • setting and measuring environmental results goals; • testing and, mitigating schools for radon.
In FY17, EPA awarded 10 regional SIRG grants totaling $7,911,000. In calendar year 2017, an estimated 443,373 existing homes were mitigated to reduce high radon levels and approximately 95,752 homes were built with radon-reducing features. Much of this progress resulted from the work of coalitions and partnerships comprised of local governments, national and local non-profit organizations, industry, radon advocates and other leaders. The SIRG program continues to stress the importance of achieving and measuring results in: the number of homes, schools, and other buildings mitigated for radon; in the number of new homes and schools built with radon-reducing features. Recipients are required to include the SIRG results measures template in their work plans, and projects with clear risk reduction benefits are to be preferred over projects projected to have lesser risk reducing results.
The SIRG program awarded $7,867,000 to 49 states and territories and 6 tribal programs (receiving approximately $238,000) in funding in FY18. ORIA regional offices are currently assessing SIRG progress reports from states and tribes. In calendar year 2018, an estimated 103,738 existing homes were mitigated to reduce high radon levels and approximately 124,252 homes were built with radon reducing features. Much of this progress resulted from the work of coalitions and partnerships comprised of state governments, national and local non-profit organizations, industry, radon advocates and other leaders. The SIRG program continues to stress the importance of achieving and measuring results in: the number of homes, schools, and other buildings mitigated for radon, and in the number of new homes, schools and other buildings built with radon reducing features. Recipients are required to include the SIRG results measures template in their work plans, and projects with clear risk reduction benefits are preferred over projects with less risk reduction results.
ORIA regional offices are currently assessing SIRG progress reports from states and tribes. Accomplishments are available here: https://www.epa.gov/radon/state-indoor-radon-grants-resources.
Annual SIRG Activity Reports are available here at the Radon Grants (SIRG) Program Resources.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
