Share- Reducing Lead Exposure: EPA is aggressively addressing lead issues across America by working with communities and partners to further identify and reduce lead exposure. Resources are requested to reduce childhood lead exposure and associated health impacts through the Federal Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposure. The Budget includes an additional $45 million to support the Lead Exposure Reduction Initiative, a cross-media effort to reduce lead exposure, particularly in children.
- Investments in Water Infrastructure: The Budget supports strategic investments in infrastructure repair, replacement and modernization by providing funding to states, municipalities, and private entities to finance high-priority infrastructure investments. The Budget includes $1.98 billion for the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (SRF) and provides approximately $82 million to support America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (AWIA) programs. Additionally, $25 million is requested for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program, which could potentially provide up to $2 billion in direct credit assistance, and, when combined with other funding sources, could spur over an estimated $4 billion in total infrastructure investment.
- Reinvesting in American Communities: EPA’s cleanup programs, including Superfund and brownfields, return formerly contaminated sites to productive use, promoting redevelopment of blighted areas and protecting human health and the environment. The Budget dedicates over $1 billion to revitalize American land and prevent future contamination. Within this amount, $18 million is set aside within the Brownfields Projects program to support projects in qualified Opportunity Zones.
- Reducing Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs): The FY 2021 Budget proposes an additional $22.4 million with 5.5 FTE to address and reduce Harmful Algal Blooms that pose significant health or economic risks to American communities. The program will provide data standards and geo-referencing expertise for EPA’s research, predictive modeling and monitoring tools and analyses, and policy approaches to target and reduce nutrient pollution.
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