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Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming to receive
funding for safe drinking water
EPA announces $3B for lead pipe replacement nationally
DENVER – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced millions
of dollars from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to help
Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming identify and
replace lead service lines, preventing exposure to lead in drinking
water. Each state will receive over $28.6 million. 
Lead can cause a range of serious health impacts, including irreversible harm
to brain development in children. To protect children and families, President
Biden has committed to replacing every lead pipe in the country. Today’s
announcement, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and available
through EPA’s successful Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF), takes
another major step to advance this work and the Administration’s commitment
to environmental justice. This funding builds on the Administration’s Lead
Pipe and Paint Action Plan and EPA’s Get the Lead Out Initiative. 
“EPA is dedicated to protecting the health of all Americans by ensuring the
water flowing into their taps is safe and reliable,” said EPA Regional
Administrator KC Becker. “Everyone deserves clean drinking water, and this
lead service line replacement funding underscores our commitment to making
that happen, especially in disadvantaged communities.” 
Working collaboratively, EPA and the State Revolving Funds are advancing the
President’s Justice40 Initiative to ensure that 40% of overall benefits from
certain federal investments flow to disadvantaged communities that are
marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution. Lead exposure
disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income families. The
total funding announced through this program to date is expected to replace up
to 1.7 million lead pipes nationwide, securing clean drinking water for
countless families. 
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law invests a historic $15 billion to identify
and replace lead service lines. The law mandates that 49% of funds provided
through the DWSRF General Supplemental Funding and DWSRF Lead Service Line
Replacement (LSLR) Funding must be provided as grants and forgivable loans to
disadvantaged communities, a crucial investment for communities that have been
underinvested in for too long.  
EPA projects a national total of 9 million lead services lines across the
country, based on data collected from the updated 7th Drinking Water
Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment. The funding announced today is for
lead service line identification and replacement and will help every state and
territory fund projects to remove lead pipes and reduce exposure to lead from
drinking water.  
The Lead Service Line-specific formula used to allot these funds allows states
to receive financial assistance commensurate with their need as soon as
possible, furthering public health protection nationwide. The formula and
allotments are based on need — meaning that states with more projected lead
service lines receive proportionally more funding. 
  
Alongside the funding announced today, EPA is releasing a new memorandum that
clarifies how states can use this and other funding to most effectively reduce
exposure to lead in drinking water. EPA has also developed new outreach
documents to help water systems educate their customers on drinking water
issues, health impacts of lead exposure, service line ownership and how
customers can support the identification of potential lead service lines in
their homes. 
  
To view more stories about how the unpreceded investments from the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law are transforming communities across the country, visit
EPA’s Investing in America’s Water Infrastructure Story Map. To read more
about some additional projects that are underway, see EPA’s recently
released Quarterly Report on Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funded Clean Water
and Drinking Water SRF projects and explore the State Revolving Funds Public
Portal.    
Today’s allotments are based on EPA’s updated 7th Drinking Water
Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment (DWINSA). To date, this is the best
available data collected and assessed on service line materials in the U.S.
Later this summer, EPA will release an addendum to the 7th DWINSA Report to
Congress which will include the updated lead service line projections. EPA
anticipates initiating data collection, including information on lead service
lines, for the 8th DWINSA in 2025. 
  
For more information, including state-by-state allotment of 2024 funding and a
breakdown of EPA’s lead Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, please visit
EPA’s Drinking Water website. 
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