This agreement provides funding for the operation of the iowa department of public health's continuing environmental programs while giving IT greater flexibility to address its highest environmental…

This $488,656 cooperative agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 funds the Iowa Department of Public Health's continuing environmental programs under the Performance Partnership Grants program. The award supports statewide programs to address lead-based paint hazards through activities such as developing implementation plans to ensure underserved communities have equitable access to lead programs, enhancing partnerships with local governments and at-risk community stakeholders, increasing outreach on hiring lead-safe contractors and reducing childhood exposures, continuing implementation of lead inspection, risk assessment and abatement standards along with related training and certification programs, and increasing the number of certified renovation firms providing lead-safe services. Anticipated outcomes include reducing children's exposure to lead sources and improving health outcomes, more effective stakeholder communication, and supporting research informing efforts to reduce lead exposure and risks. No subawards are included.

This agreement provides funding for the operation of the iowa department of public health's continuing environmental programs while giving IT greater flexibility to address its highest environmental priorities, improve environmental performance, achieve administrative savings and strengthen the partnership between the iowa department of public health and the EPA. This agreement funds statewide programs to address lead-based paint hazards. The work includes outputs and outcomes associated with managing continuing environmental programs which include activities to protect and maintain chemical safety.activities:activities to be performed with this project include: develop implementation plans to ensure that underserved communities and individuals have full, fair, and equitable access to the benefits of the state's programs; enhance partnerships with local governments and key stakeholders that represent or serve communities at risk for childhood lead exposure; increase outreach events and engagement processes in collaboration with at-risk communities and lead-safe coalitions to provide education on the importance of hiring lead-safe contractors, strategies for reducing exposures in children, and actions to support exposed children and their families; continue to reduce exposures to lead in paint by implementing standards for inspection, risk assessment, and abatement of lead-based paint hazards, along with training and certification programs; increasing the number (or percentage) of certified renovation firms capable of providing lead-safe renovation, repair, and painting services through targeted outreach campaigns to contractors, and continue to provide a statewide list of certified renovation firms on the iowa department of public health's website; continue to implement regulations and other relevant authorities that require individuals and firms conducting lead-based paint abatement, risk assessment or inspection to be properly trained and certified, training programs to be accredited, and these activities to be conducted according to reliable, effective, and safe work practice standards.subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:the anticipated outputs and expected outcomes are associated with managing continuing environmental programs which include reducing children's exposure to lead sources by identifying lead-exposed children and improving their health outcomes; communicating more effectively with stakeholders; supporting and conducting critical research to inform efforts to reduce lead exposure and related health risks; and activities to protect and maintain chemical safety. Direct beneficiaries of this program are the citizens of iowa.