The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issues this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to invite applications from eligible applicants for the program and purpose described within this Lead and Healthy Homes Technical Studies Grant Program.
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/06/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Through this NOFO, HUD is funding studies to improve knowledge of housing-related health and safety hazards and to improve or develop new hazard assessment and control methods, with a focus on lead and other key residential health and safety hazards. HUD is especially interested in applications that will advance our knowledge of priority healthy homes issues by addressing important gaps in science related to the accurate and efficient identification of hazards and the implementation of cost-effective hazard mitigation.
The overall objectives include but are not limited to the statutory requirements listed in Section 1052 of Title X:
- Develop improved methods for evaluating lead-based paint hazards.
- Develop improved methods for reducing lead-based paint hazards.
- Develop improved methods for measuring lead in paint films, dust, and soil.
- Establish performance standards for various detection methods, including spot test kits.
- Establish performance standards for lead-based paint hazard reduction methods, including the use of encapsulants.
- Establish appropriate cleanup standards.
- Evaluate the efficacy of interim controls in various situations
- Evaluate the relative performance of various abatement techniques.
- Evaluate the long-term cost-effectiveness of interim control and abatement strategies.
- Assess the effectiveness of hazard evaluation and reduction activities.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $13,200,000
- Minimum Award Amount: $300,000
- Maximum Award Amount: $1,000,000
Project Period
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher educatio
- Private institutions of higher education) 22 (For profit organizations other than small businesses)
- Small businesses
- U.S. territory or possession
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
