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Lead Hazard Grants

The Lead Hazard Control program provides competitive grants to States and localities to reduce lead paint in low-income housing. These grants are used to remove lead paint hazards through renovation and control technologies. Lead paint can lead to neurological and developmental disorders in children.

Rating

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PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program addresses a serious issue by distributing funds to grantees with demonstrated needs. Over 400,000 children have elevated levels of lead in their blood and funds are provided to grantees that demonstrate need.
  • The program has an aggressive outcome goal??elimination of childhood lead poisoning by 2010??and there has been significant progress made toward achievement of this goal. The program has made a significant contribution toward the goal although external factors in the housing market (such as normal rates of renovation) appear to have had the most impact.
  • The program has become more efficient and meets its annual targets. The cost per safe-guarding one unit of housing has declined from $16,000 to $10,000.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Promoting the use of more cost-beneficial technologies for the removal of lead hazards.
  • Developing more aggressive performance targets to reach a broader population to eliminate childhood lead poisoning.

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