The agreement provides funding to address air pollution inequities in underserved urban, rural and tribal communities in utah through 1) radon testing, remediation and mitigation, and 2) enhanced…

The agreement provides funding to address air pollution inequities in underserved urban, rural and tribal communities in utah through 1) radon testing, remediation and mitigation, and 2) enhanced PM2.5, PM10 and ozone monitoring using low-cost sensors. This work follows a community-engaged approach and leverages close community partnerships and an existing low-cost air quality sensing network infrastructure. We will engage communities through our community advisory group, community meetings and presentations, educational modules, training, and air quality visualizations. This work will help strengthen relationships between impacted communities and regulatory agencies, leading to increased trust, effective collaboration, shared decision-making, and development of mitigation strategies. Activities:the activities included in the proposed work will focus on specific disadvantaged urban, rural and tribal communities. The proposed project will reduce air quality inequities impacting underserved communities in urban, rural and tribal areas in utah by adding more PM2.5, PM10 and ozone sensors to address measurement gaps in these areas. Through radon testing and mitigation of roughly 300-500 homes and schools, the project will also lead to an immediate reduction in lung cancer risk, especially among vulnerable school children. Increased public awareness on radon exposure will also empower urban, rural and tribal communities to make behavioral changes that will directly benefit their health, such as changing the operation of their heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to reduce indoor radon concentrations. Subrecipient:ucair $50,837.00 (community-based organization) will act as a liaison between the data gathering team and local community stakeholders, facilitating key community meetings and presentations, assisting in the development of educational modules and establishing and leading a community advisory board URC $448,200.00 (community-based organization) will facilitate radon testing in low-income households in our target communities. They will also identify households eligible for radon mitigation and will lead the installation of radon mitigation systems. URC will also conduct community outreach activities, including providing training on how to test for radon and reduce risk of exposure to radon, and engaging elected and appointed officials to promote radiation and radon awareness westside coalition (community-based organization) will share and discuss their findings with the coalition and at community council meetings university of utah $140,765.00 (academic) will assist with testing rural and low-income schools for radon and have collaborated with BYU to work on determining the associations between the characteristics of HVAC systems in schools and radon levels. They will lead the laboratory calibration, field calibration, deployment and troubleshooting of the ozone and PM sensors. This team will also fabricate housings for the sensors, perform data analysis and quality assurance checks, implement the instant and location-specific air quality notices. This group, along with other faculty, will also participate in outreach activities and will develop hands-on outreach modules for k-12 students and community members in rural utah snow college $29,831.00 (academic) will lead the ozone and PM monitoring component in the target rural communities and will help identify locations for sensor placement and radon testing while expanding outreach to rural communities; brigham young university (academic) will also assist with testing rural and low-income schools for radon state department of human and health services $4,000.00 (state health officials), various local health departments (local health officials) will guide the crafting of the health messages accompanying the instantaneous air quality notices. They will also disseminate results through their air quality workgroup, asthma task force, and envi