Sec. 3. Lead cleanup grants
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The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (in this section referred to as the Secretary ) shall award grants to eligible entities for the purpose of evaluating and reducing lead-based paint hazards, lead in drinking water hazards, and lead in soil hazards in residential real properties constructed before 1978. To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an entity shall be one of the following: A State or local government that has an approved comprehensive housing affordability strategy under section 105 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 12705 ).
A State or local government that has produced a comprehensive plan or strategy to address lead poisoning. A nonprofit organization that meets the following requirements: The nonprofit organization is a community-based social and human service organization that provides housing services. The nonprofit organization has a demonstrated ability to provide, directly or through a subgrantee, lead hazard control interventions. To seek a grant under this section, an eligible entity shall submit an application in such form and manner as the Secretary shall require.
Any such application shall contain— a description of the amount of assistance the eligible entity seeks under this section; a description of the planned activities to be undertaken with the grant, including an estimate of the amount of funds to be allocated to each activity; a description of the forms of financial assistance that will be provided to owners and occupants of pre-1978 housing through the grant; a demonstration that the jurisdiction, as required by section 5— has in effect a blood lead reference level at or below the blood lead reference level of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and requires an environmental investigation to identify environmental sources of lead exposure in residential properties and childcare facilities occupied by a child with an elevated blood lead level; and such assurances as the Secretary may require regarding the eligible entity’s capacity to carry out the activities to be funded through the grant.
The Secretary shall select grant recipients under this section on the basis of— the merit of the activities proposed to be carried out; and selection criteria including— the extent to which the proposed activities will reduce the risk of lead poisoning for— low-income children under 6 years of age; and pregnant women; the proportion of pre-1978 housing in the area to be served using the grant; the number and percentage of homes in the area to be served using the grant where household income does not exceed 80 percent of the area median income; the degree of severity, and the extent of, lead-based paint hazards, lead in drinking water hazards, and lead in soil hazards in the area to be served, evaluated using data concerning the housing age and conditions, lead service line inventory, and incidence of elevated blood lead levels according to the reference blood lead level of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the ability of the applicant to leverage State, local, philanthropic, and private funds to supplement the grant; and such other factors as the Secretary determines appropriate to ensure that grants made available awarded under this section are used effectively in accordance with this section.
As a condition on receipt of a grant under this section, a grantee shall agree to use the grant to evaluate and reduce lead-based paint hazards in residential real properties constructed before 1978, which may include— performing lead inspections and risk assessments in pre-1978 housing; providing for the remediation, abatement, and replacement of, or otherwise addressing, lead-based paint hazards in pre-1978 housing in accordance with applicable State and municipal health and housing regulations; providing for the additional cost of reducing lead-based paint hazards in units undergoing renovation funded by other sources; providing for the testing of drinking water, and identifying lead service lines and leaded plumbing fixtures, to identify lead hazards in drinking water; providing for the replacement of lead service lines, in communities where a water utility will or is required to replace the utility-owned portion of the lead service line; remediation of lead in soil; monitoring the blood lead levels of workers involved in the lead-hazard reduction activities funded under this section; assisting in the temporary relocation of families forced to vacate pre-1978 housing while lead-hazard-reduction measures are being conducted, if; educating the public on the nature and causes of lead poisoning and measures to reduce the exposure to lead, including exposure due to residential lead-based paint hazards; testing soil, paint, interior surface dust, drinking water, and the blood lead levels of children under 6 years of age, and pregnant women, residing in pre-1978 housing after lead-based paint hazard reduction activity has been conducted, to assure that such activity does not cause excessive exposures to lead; creating or expanding workforce development, training, certification, and accreditation programs; and carrying out such activities as the Secretary determines appropriate to promote the purpose described in subsection (a).
A recipient of a grant under this section may use the grant to provide eligible activities described in subsection
(e)through a variety of funding approaches, including subgrants, loans, equity investments, revolving loan funds, loan funds, loan guarantees, interest write-downs, and other forms of assistance approved by the Secretary for purposes of this section. As a condition on receipt of a grant under this section, a grantee shall agree to make contributions toward the cost of activities funded through the grant for a fiscal year in an amount that is not less than 4 percent of the total amount of the grant for such fiscal year. As a condition on receipt of a grant under this section, a grantee shall agree to use amounts received through the grant to supplement and not supplant funds used by the grantee for eligible activities described in subsection (e). As a condition on receipt of a grant under this section, a grantee shall ensure that not more than 10 percent of the grant is used for administrative expenses. As a condition on receipt of a grant under this section, a grantee shall agree to maintain and provide the Secretary with financial records sufficient, in the determination of the Secretary, to ensure proper accounting and disbursing of amounts made available to the grantee through the grant. As a condition on receipt of a grant under this section, a grantee shall agree to require the owner of any rental property receiving assistance through the grant, for a period of 3 years after lead remediation at the rental property pursuant to such assistance, or throughout the term of any loan made to the owner pursuant to the grant, whichever is longer— to maintain the affordability of rental units at the rental property; and to continue to rent to families with one or more children under 6 years of age or a pregnant woman. For any fiscal year in which a grantee under this section expends funds received through the grant, such grantee shall submit a report to the Secretary on the use of the funds. For the respective fiscal year, any such report shall at a minimum— specify the number and type of residential housing units remediated of interior and exterior lead-based paint hazards, lead dust, lead service lines, or leaded plumbing fixtures; and include community-level elevated blood lead surveillance data before and after such remediation, presented at the census block or census tract level. Not later than 120 days after the date on which funds are first appropriated to carry out this section, the Secretary shall publish a notice of funding availability regarding grants under this section. The Secretary shall carry out the program under this section in conjunction with other Federal environmental lead hazard control and childhood lead-poisoning prevention programs. To carry out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $12,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2020 through 2024. The Secretary may allow grantees under this section, collectively, to allocate for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2024, a total of up to $300,000 for capacity building described in subsection (e)(11).
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