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Underground Injection Control Grant Program

EPA's Underground Injection Control grant program assists states with prevention of injection practices that might endanger underground drinking water sources.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program is effectively targeted to achieve its purpose. To receive grant funds, states must demonstrate an adequate ability to implement and enforce their own Underground Injection Control program. Funds are allotted by a formula which directs resources towards the highest risk wells.
  • The program is not measuring its annual public health outcomes. The program is measuring a long term outcome (compliance with drinking water standards) and is developing annual measurements of program outputs such as the % of Class V motor vehicle disposal wells closed or permitted. However, to best serve the public the program should measure annual outcomes (such as source water protection).
  • Data quality problems continue to persist and as a result, EPA may not be accurately reporting the program's performance. In March 2004, the EPA Inspector General concluded that EPA was not accurately reporting its performance due to data quality problems in the drinking water compliance reporting system (Safe Drinking Water Information System).

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Implementing data quality review recommendations to improve the overall quality of the data in EPA's drinking water compliance reporting system.
  • Developing an outcome-based annual performance measure and an efficiency measure to demonstrate the program's protection of source water quality.

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