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SDWA 1464(d)
66.444
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Funding is awarded to states, territories, and Tribal Consortia to assist local educational agencies in voluntary testing and remediation of lead in drinking water at schools and child care facilities. The principal objective of the assistance to be awarded under this program is to test and remediate lead in drinking water at schools and child care facilities, using EPA’s 3Ts for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water guidance or the at least equivalent applicable state regulations or guidance regarding reducing lead in drinking water in schools and child care facilities (see: https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/3ts-reducing-lead-drinking-water-schools-and-child-care-facilities). EPA's 3Ts, Training, Testing, and Taking Action, provide tools for schools, child care facilities, states, and water systems to implement voluntary lead testing and remediation programs in drinking water. Funding supports: (1) reducing children’s exposure to lead in drinking water; (2) helping states, territories, and Tribes target funding toward schools unable to pay for testing; (3) using the 3Ts model, or at least equivalent model, to establish best practices for lead in drinking water prevention programs; (4) fostering sustainable partnerships at the state and local level to allow for more efficient use of existing resources and exchange of information among experts in various educational and health sectors; and (5) enhancing community, parent, and teacher cooperation and trust. This voluntary effort focuses on lead reduction in drinking water at schools and child care programs that are in low-income areas The priority is to award funds to test and remediate lead in drinking water in schools and child care facilities through planning, public education, testing and outreach, along with taking actions to remediate lead from the facilities' infrastructure. This voluntary effort focuses on lead reduction and decreasing the number of lead sources in drinking water at schools and child care programs that are in low-income areas. The grant program requires EPA’s 3Ts for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water in Schools guidance to develop and implement programs in schools and child care facilities, and to identify and remediate lead sources in drinking water.
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In FY 18 grant funding was not awarded.
In FY19 funding supported projects that encouraged the voluntary testing for lead in drinking water primarily serving children in schools and child care facilities. Funding supported efforts to identify best practices for developing lead testing in schools and child care facilities nationally to reduce the lead exposure in drinking water for this vulnerable population. Funding supported the effort to meet the priority of reducing lead in drinking water as part of their overall plans for maintaining healthy learning environments for vulnerable populations such as children in schools and child care facilities.
In FY2020, the funding supported the development and implementation of programs to test for lead in drinking water in schools and child care facilities. Funding assisted with continued efforts to identify best practices for developing lead testing in schools and child care facilities across the country; develop and deliver results to affected communities through outreach and communication; and increase understanding of multiple aspects of improving public water system infrastructure and respective outlets to reduce lead exposure in drinking water for the purpose of increasing public health. The funding prioritizes continued efforts to reduce lead in drinking water in an effort to maintain healthy learning environments for vulnerable populations such as children in schools and child care facilities.
In FY2022, funding supported the development and implementation of programs to test for lead in drinking water in schools and child care facilities. Funding supported continued efforts to identify best practices for developing lead testing and remediation efforts in schools and child care facilities across the country; develop and deliver results to affected communities through outreach and communication; and increase understanding of multiple aspects of improving public water system infrastructure and respective outlets to reduce lead exposure in drinking water for the purpose of increasing public health. The funding supported the priority of reducing lead in drinking water in an effort to maintain healthy learning environments for vulnerable populations such as children in schools and child care facilities.
In FY2024, funding supported the development and implementation of programs to test and remediate lead in drinking water in schools and child care facilities. Funding supported continued efforts to identify best practices for lead testing and remediation efforts in schools and child care facilities across the country; streamlined methods to training, testing, outreach, and communication of testing results to affected communities ; performed lead remediation efforts to reduce lead sources at the infrastructure of school and child care facilities; and increase the understanding and education of the multiple aspects of improving public water system infrastructure and respective outlets to remediate lead exposure in drinking water for the purpose of increasing public health. The funding supported the priority of reducing lead in drinking water with an effort to maintain healthy learning environments for vulnerable populations at children in school and child care facilities.
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.
