x^0 S6%\ I SB? J EPA's Tribal Lead Grant Program The Tribal Lead Grant Program supports Tribal educational outreach and baseline assessments of Tribal children's exposure to lead-based paint and related lead-based paint hazards. These grants will fund efforts to reduce the incidence of childhood lead poisoning in tribal communities. The activities will include educational outreach, data gathering, inspections, risk assessments, training, and development of new and innovative approaches to identifying or reducing lead poisoning. In 2007, the Agency awarded more than $970,000 in grant dollars to fund this program. A total of 40 applications were received. The top 15 proposals were recommended for an award. Grant recipients are required to be federally-recognized Tribes or Tribal consortia. 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, and the projects supported by these grant funds are an important part of this ongoing effort. According to the Centers for Disease Control in 1978 there were 13.5 million children in the United States with elevated blood lead levels. By 2002, that number had dropped to 310,000. For more information about EPA's Lead Program, visit www.eoa.lead or call 1-800-424-LEAD. 2007 National Community-Based Lead Grant Program Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics www.epa.gov/lead Grant Award Recipients Baseline Assessment Grant Recipients Aroostook Band of Micmacs, Presque Isle, ME Houlton Band of the Maliseet Indians, Houlton, ME Ysleta de Sur Pueblo Tribe, El Paso, TX Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, ND Educational Outreach Grant Recipients Aroostook Band of Micmacs, Presque Isle, ME Ysleta de Sur Pueblo Tribe, El Paso, TX Houlton Band of the Maliseet Indians, Houlton, ME Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, ND Wampanoag Tribe of the Gay Head, Aquinnah, MA Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Lakeport, CA Shoshone-Banncock Tribes, Fort Hall, ID Paiute-Shone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation, Fallon, NV Passmaquoddy-lndian Township, Princeton, ME Montana Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council, Billings, MT Kootenai Tribe of ID, Bonners Ferry, ID ------- |