EPA announced a new Request for Application (RFA) for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water. The $20 million in available grant funding will assist communities and schools with removing sources of lead in drinking water. The funding consists of $10 million for projects to conduct lead service line replacements or implement corrosion control improvements and $10 million for projects that remove sources of lead in drinking water in schools or childcare facilities. This WIIN grant will be completed through the RFA process and will be open until April 19 at www.grants.gov. Links of interest include:
- Press release: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-availability-20-million-reduce-lead-drinking-water
- WIIN website: https://www.epa.gov/dwcapacity/water-infrastructure-improvements-nation-act-wiin-act-grant-programs-0
- WIIN 2105 website: https://www.epa.gov/dwcapacity/wiin-grant-reducing-lead-drinking-water
Eligible applicants include the following
- 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 organizations servicing a public water system.
- Municipalities.
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