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Reducing Lead in Drinking Water (SDWA 1459B)

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

66.443

Sub-agency

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Program objective

The grant program funds activities to reduce lead in drinking water in disadvantaged communities through infrastructure and/or treatment improvements or facility remediation in schools and child care facilities. The goal of the program is to address conditions that contribute to increased concentrations of lead in drinking water. Priority is given to projects that focus on reducing lead exposure in disadvantaged communities served by drinking water systems with at least one lead action level exceedance within the last three years, in schools, daycares, and/or other facilities that primarily serve children or other populations vulnerable to environmental health risks.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2020

    The selected recipients in FY 20 proposed projects that would reduce lead exposure in drinking water by replacing thousands of lead service lines and removing potential sources of lead in hundreds of schools and childcare facilities across the United States. These projects included 3 drinking water infrastructure projects in 3 different cities, and 7 projects that will reduce lead exposure in drinking water by replacing thousands of lead service lines and removing potential sources of lead in hundreds of schools and childcare facilities across the United States.

  2. 2022

    Funding continued to support projects to reduce lead exposure in drinking water by replacing thousands of lead service lines and removing potential sources of lead in hundreds of schools and childcare facilities across the United States. These projects include reducing lead exposure in drinking water by replacing thousands of lead service lines, replacing and removing potential sources of lead, such as water fountains, in hundreds of schools and childcare facilities across the United States, and conducting drinking water lead sampling and remediation activities.

  3. 2024

    Funding continues to support projects to reduce lead exposure in drinking water by replacing thousands of lead service lines and removing potential sources of lead in hundreds of schools and childcare facilities across the United States. These projects include reducing lead exposure in drinking water by replacing thousands of lead service lines, replacing and removing potential sources of lead, such as water fountains, in hundreds of schools and childcare facilities across the United States, and conducting drinking water lead sampling and remediation activities.

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.

Assistance agreement awards are subject to the grant regulations at 2 CFR Part 1500 (EPA Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards); 40 CFR Part 33 (Participation by Disadvantaged Business Enterprises in United States Environmental Protection Agency Programs).

  1. Safe Drinking Water Act, 1459B, as amended.