EPA Lead Program
Grant Fact Sheet

University of Kentucky

EPA has selected the University of
Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky for a
National Community-Based Lead Outreach
and Training Grant.

Five county health departments in Central
Kentucky have collaborated with the
University of Kentucky's Research
Foundation to conduct the following activities
for this project:

•	Conduct a lead educational outreach
program

•	Provide training on federal disclosure
requirements for sales and leases of
older housing and federal Lead-Safe
Work Practices (LSWP)

•	Seek a new or modified ordinance or
regulation for property owners, realtors,
and contractors to further protect
children from additional lead exposure.

The goal of the project is to reach at least 125
targeted households with a lead hazard
educational outreach program as part of the
efforts to increase screening. LSWP and real

estate disclosure requirements training will be provided to remodelers, renovators, painters, day
laborers, maintenance workers, landlords, renters, and Do-lt-Yourself homeowners. Finally, the
project will include work with state and county legislators to amend local real estate ordinances
and regulations requiring property owners to abate and disclose all residential property lead
exposure hazards prior to lease or sale.

EPA's National Community-Based
Lead Grant Program

EPA grants are helping communities with older
housing reduce childhood lead poisoning. The
funds enable communities to educate those at
risk, provide lead-awareness training and
develop local ordinances aimed at lead
abatement.

The National Community-Based Lead Outreach
and Training Grants are aimed at promoting
efforts to prevent or reduce childhood lead
poisoning. In 2007 The Agency awarded more
than $3.1 million in grant dollars to fund this
ambitious program. Grant recipients range from
city health departments to universities and
colleges, community organizations, religious
groups, and other non-profit organizations.

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. Projects supported by these grant funds
are an important part of this ongoing effort - and
we are seeing their effects. By 2002, the number
of U.S. children with elevated blood-lead levels
dropped to 310,000 from 13.5 million in 1978,
according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.

For more information about EPA's Lead
Program, visit www.epa.qov/lead or call the
National Lead Information Center at 1-800-424-
LEAD.

2007 National Community-Based Lead Grant Program

Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics

www.epa.gov/lead

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