WIIN Act Drinking Water Grants Infographic

Information last updated: August 2022

Water Infrastructure
Improvements for the
Nation (WIIN) Act Grants

and Child Care
Lead Testing and
Reduction

Type Of
Grant

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The WIIN Act addresses, supports, and
improves America's drinking water
infrastructure. The three grants were
established to promote public and
environmental health by providing
investment in the nation's small and
disadvantaged communities, their public
water systems, and schools and child care
facilities to address lead exposure in
drinking water, other contaminants, and
compliance issues. In November 2021, the
grant programs under WIIN were amended
by the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs
Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law (BIL).

Small, Underserved,
and Disadvantaged
Communities
(SUDC)

Non-competitive

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Reducing Lead in
Drinking Water



Public water
systems; tribes;
nonprofit
organizations;
municipalities; and
states, interstate,
or intermunicipal
agencies

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States,

territories, and
tribes

Annually, eligible
applicants can
submit workplan
application packages
to www.Grants.gov
on a continuous basis
for available grant
funding. Applicants
should be aware of
Regional EPA
deadlines to submit
grant packages to be
awarded funding in
each fiscal cycle.

The grant is
announced annually
as a Request for
Application
competition. The
FY22 competition
closed in April 2022.
Interested parties
should go to the
grant webpage for
information
regarding future
grant competition
cycles.

FY21 state
allotments were
announced for
states, territories,
and tribes on March
15, 2021. The FY22
funding allotments
will be made
available in early
FY23.

Assist small,
underserved, and
disadvantaged
communities comply
with the Safe Drinking
Water Act (SDWA)
through infrastructure
projects, capacity
building activities,
and activities needed
to respond to a
drinking water
contaminant.

Reduce lead exposure
in drinking water
through lead service
line replacement
(LSLR) and treatment
improvement projects
for public water
systems and
remediation projects
in schools and child
care facilities.

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Assist in implementing
voluntary programs in
schools and child care
facilities to establish
best practices, reduce
lead contamination,
and establish trust
between schools/child
care facilities and their
communities to test
for, remediate, and
monitor lead in
drinking water.

Anticipated:

$27.1 M (FY22);
Est. $80M (FY23)*i

Anticipated:

$22M (FY22);
Est. $80M (FY23r

Anticipated:

$27.5 M (FY22);
Est. $36M (FY23r

* Please note BIL did not appropriate
funding to the 3 original WIIN grants. It
only amended eligibilities and
requirements. The WIIN grants continue
to receive annual appropriations.

** Estimates are not final and subject to
change based on final appropriations.

Grants have been awarded to over
40 states, territories, and tribal
communities using FY18, FY19,
and FY21 funding.

Project selections for the FY22
competition are anticipated to be
announced in Fall 2022.

Since inception, over 24,000
schools and child care facilities have
been tested for lead in drinking water
using WIIN grant funding.

Expands eligible activities to include
point-of-entry/-use filtration systems,
information-gathering on filtration and
LSLR options, and outside technical
assistance provided directly to the eligible
entity or to the state; and reduces the
statutory cost-share from 45% of project
costs to 10% of project costs and gives
EPA the authority to waive the
requirement for non-federal share.

Additionally, BIL includes $5B in funding
to address emerging contaminants in
small or disadvantaged communities.
Initiated as a non-competitive grant
program, the Emerging Contaminants in
Small or Disadvantaged Communities
Grant under SDWA 1459A prioritizes
remediation of emerging contaminants in
drinking water.

Allows funding to cover
replacement of publicly- and
privately-owned
lead service lines and prioritizes
disadvantaged communities,
low-income homeowners, and
landlords providing housing to
low-income renters, including
requiring eligible entities to
offer replacement of the
privately-owned portion of the
lead service line at no cost to
low-income homeowners.

Allows funding to cover
compliance monitoring and
reduction/remediation of lead;
expands eligible direct recipients
of grants to public water systems
that serve schools, qualified
nonprofits, and tribal consortia;
and expands eligible recipients of
assistance provided by grant
recipients to include public water
systems that serve schools and
child cares and qualified
non-profits.

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