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EPA Tribal Lead Grant Program
Eight Tribal Grant Award Recipients
Baseline Assessment Recipients
- Spirit Lake Tribe
Fort Totten, ND - Aroostook Band of Micmacs
Presque Isle, ME - Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Fort Yates, ND - Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
Prior Lake, MN
Educational Outreach Recipients
The Tribal Lead Grant Program supports Tribal educational outreach and baseline assessments of Tribal children's exposure to lead-based paint and related lead-based paint hazards. These grants will fund efforts to reduce the incidence of childhood lead poisoning in tribal communities. The activities will include educational outreach, data gathering, inspections, risk assessments, training, and development of new and innovative approaches to identifying or reducing lead poisoning.
In 2008, the Agency awarded nearly $500,000 in grant dollars to fund this program. A total of 20 applications were received. The top eight proposals were recommended for an award. Grant recipients are required to be federally-recognized Tribes or Tribal consortia.
EPA's lead program is playing a major role in meeting the federal goal of eliminating childhood lead poisoning as a major public health concern by 2010, and the projects supported by these grant funds are an important part of this ongoing effort. According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 1978 there were 13.5 million children in the US with elevated blood lead levels. By 2002, that number had dropped to 310,000.
For more information about EPA's Lead Program, visit www.epa.gov/lead or call the National Lead Information Center at 1-800-424-LEAD.