Federal grant programs / Environmental Protection Agency

Toxic Substances Compliance Monitoring Cooperative Agreements (66.701)

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$7.0 million
• Grant awards54
• Typical award$82,626
• Awarded in FY 2025$953,778
• Size rank1,563 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreements

Key findings

• Annual funding fell from $2.0 million in fiscal 2021 to $953,778 in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 1563rd largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 100% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 19 states and territories.

What the program funds

The objectives of this program are to: 1) assist grantees, including States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, America Samoa, the Northern Marianas, the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Indian Tribes, in developing and maintaining compliance monitoring programs to prevent or eliminate unreasonable risks to health or the environment associated with chemical substances or mixtures in their communities, specifically Lead-based paint, Asbestos, and Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); 2) encourage regulatory activities within the grantees communities to establish their own programs for Lead-based paint and Asbestos (waiver programs); and 3) provide funds to support enforcement activities for Asbestos waiver state programs and Lead-based paint programs. EPA may provide funding for cooperative compliance monitoring grants to grantees under TSCA to conduct inspections to ensure compliance with the PCB regulations, the Asbestos-in-Schools requirements (inspections at charter schools, public schools, private, non-profit schools and religious schools), the Model Accreditation Plan (MAP), TSCA section 6 Ban and Phase Out Rule, and the TSCA Asbestos Worker Protection Standards and to conduct Lead-based paint activities. Authorized grantees also conduct enforcement responses for the Lead-based program. Grantees that have obtained an EPA waiver from the Asbestos regulation (Subpart E of Part 763) also have enforcement responsibilities. In FY 2026, the TSCA PCB and Asbestos programs will: 1) ensure existing compliance monitoring programs continue to meet established standards; 2) promote activities that lead to waiver status for Asbestos programs; 3) ensure states meet EPA inspector training requirements necessary to obtain and keep EPA credentials in those programs which require the use of EPA credentials (the PCB compliance monitoring programs and Asbestos programs in non-waiver states); 4) provide inspection activity where there is an identified need including, but not limited to, Children's Health areas. In FY 2026, states with authorized Lead-based paint programs will focus on individuals and firms which conduct lead abatement and renovation and their continuance with the training and certification, and work practice standards requirements. States with authorized renovation notice rules will also monitor those requirements.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

For the Lead-based paint program, state agencies, Indian tribes, and tribal consortiums that have toxic substance compliance responsibilities, who have the authority to enter into these cooperative agreements, and who have their own Lead laws in place are eligible to apply for assistance. For the PCB and Asbestos programs, grantees should have toxic substance compliance responsibilities and be designated as the lead agency with the authority to enter into these cooperative agreements.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Grant funds are available for costs specifically incurred by grantees to develop, enhance, and maintain comprehensive compliance monitoring/enforcement programs under TSCA, specifically Lead-based paint, PCBs, and Asbestos. Funded activities may include inspector training, inspection supplies, and laboratory costs, including personnel and equipment; reimbursement for salaries, travel, training, and per diem expenses for inspectors, analysts, and program managers; and other functions related to grant activities. Assistance agreement awards under this program may involve or relate to geospatial information. Further information regarding geospatial information may be obtained by viewing the following website: https://www.epa.gov/geospatial. Assistance agreement awards under this program may involve generating or using environmental data, such as, environmental sampling, field measurements, and/or laboratory analyses. Further information on the "Policy to Assure the Competency of Organizations Generating Environmental Measurement Data Under Agency-Funded Assistance Agreements" should refer to the following website: https://www.epa.gov/measurements-modeling.

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. This program does not have a statutory formula. However, EPA allocates funds based on formulas contained in regulations or program guidance. The PCB and Asbestos grants do require cost sharing. Under TSCA Section 28, no grant may exceed 75 percent of the establishment and operation costs of such a program during the period for which the grant is made. Thus, recipients must contribute 25 percent of the total costs for activities conducted under Section 28 of TSCA (i.e., the PCB and Asbestos grants). There are no cost-sharing or matching fund requirements for Lead-based Paint enforcement grants under Section 404(g).MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate for application deadlines

Award range and average, in the agency's words

EPA uses an approach which establishes a weighted formula that emphasizes lead-based paint, maximizing environmental benefits and program performance. This formula provides more specificity regarding multiple program areas including Lead Renovation, Repair and Repainting, Lead Abatement, and the Lead Hazard Information Pamphlet: Renovation of Target Housing programs. Within the asbestos program, more weight is given to asbestos grants for Grantees that obtain waivers from EPA in order to self-implement. The following are ranges of possible funding for: Lead: $34,000 to $72,000/year per authorized lead-based paint program and PCB and Asbestos: $43,000 to $84,000/year.

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: Examples of the types of projects funded under this assistance listing include: targeting activities, inspections/investigations to evaluate compliance, follow-up inspections, initiation of appropriate enforcement action when violations are detected, inspector training, equipment for inspections, development of compliance monitoring strategies, development of software or e-forms capable of automating inspection data collection activities in the field. The majority of the funds are used by the grantees to conduct compliance monitoring inspections. Those grantees that are authorized to enforce the Lead-based paint program or are "waiver" states under the AHERA program can use these funds to enforce the regulation, as appropriate.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

Almost all of the money went to state and local governments.

By state

2 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards. They are Illinois and Massachusetts.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.