FY20 WIIN Act Drinking Water Grants Infographic

Information last updated: January 2022

Small, Underserved, and
Disadvantaged (SUDC)

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.
These grants were amended by the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).



Reducing Lead in
Drinking Water

Non-competitive

SDWA 1459A
WIIN 2104

Competitive

SDWA 1459B
WIIN 2105

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Timing

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States,

territories, and
tribes

Who
Receives
I Funding

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



States,

territories, and
tribes

Applications
opened on
www.Grants.gov in
September 2021.
The deadline for
states and
territories to apply
for FY2021 funding
is June 30, 2022

Deadline for
participating states
to submit their final
application was
June 1, 2020.
Awardees were
selected on
October 23, 2020

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Highlights

State allotments
were announced
for states,
territories, and
tribes on
March 15, 2021

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WIIN
Grant

Lead Testing in
School and Child Care
Program Drinking
Water

SDWA 1464(d)
WIIN 2107



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Type of

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Funding

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Assist small, disadvantaged,
and underserved
communities comply with
the Safe Drinking Water Act
(SDWA) through
infrastructure projects;
technical, managerial, and
financial 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

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

$26 million

Authorized by BIL,
but not yet available:
$70 million (FY2022)
$80 million (FY2023)
$100 million (FY2024)
$120 million (FY2025)
$140 million (FY2026)

Authorized by BIL,
but not yet available:
$500 million
(FY2022-FY2026)

Authorized
but not yet

$30 million
$35 million
$40 million
$45 million
$50 million

by BIL,

available:

(FY2022)

(FY2023)

(FY2024)

(FY2025)

(FY2026)

Updates
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Grants have been awarded to over 40
states, territories, and tribal
communities using FY2018 and FY2019
funding

Ten projects have been awarded to
reduce lead exposure in drinking water
by replacing thousands of lead service
lines and removing potential sources of
lead in hundreds of schools and child
care facilities across the United States

In calendar year 2022, cost-share waivers are applied to 2104 and 2105

In 2020, over 900 schools and 1,700
child care facilities were tested for
lead in drinking water using WIIN
grant funding

2104:

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 required 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

2105:

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

2107:

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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