Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Program | FR 6200 N 12

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The Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction (LHR) Program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) designed to help state, county, city/township, special district, and federally recognized tribal governments run comprehensive local programs that find and fix lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately owned housing. The focus is on both owner-occupied and rental homes, with the practical goal of reducing lead exposure where families live, especially in communities where older housing stock and poverty increase the risk of lead poisoning. The program is structured to support not just one-off remediation projects, but coordinated efforts that combine housing interventions, public health coordination, and longer-term community capacity to keep homes lead-safe.

At the center of the program is protecting children under age six, since young children are the most vulnerable to the developmental and health impacts of lead exposure. HUD emphasizes maximizing two outcomes: the number of young children protected from lead poisoning and the number of housing units where lead hazards are controlled. The targeting strategy is very specific: applicants are expected to prioritize pre-1960 housing, which is more likely to contain lead-based paint, and to concentrate resources in areas where children are at the highest risk. The opportunity also recognizes that risk is not evenly distributed and calls out the historical and current burden on low-income and minority neighborhoods, with the intent of reducing elevated blood lead levels in those populations through focused hazard control work.

The grant also pushes applicants to use methods that are both cost-effective and durable, meaning lead hazard control approaches should provide long-term safety for residents rather than temporary fixes. Alongside direct hazard control, HUD wants grantees to build local capacity by ensuring work is carried out by properly trained and certified individuals, including those involved in lead hazard control as well as renovation, remodeling, and maintenance. In other words, the program is meant to strengthen the local ecosystem of safe work practices, not only the immediate project pipeline. This capacity-building component is tied to preventing the reintroduction of hazards during common housing activities that can disturb lead paint and dust.

A major theme is coordination and integration with other community initiatives. HUD expects applicants to develop comprehensive, community-based approaches that connect this program with related health and housing efforts through public and private partnerships, especially those serving low-income families with young children. The program also includes explicit civil rights and equity expectations. Grantees must affirmatively further fair housing and advance environmental justice, and HUD notes that affirmatively furthering fair housing is not just a program preference but also a civil rights-related requirement tied to how the grant must be carried out. The opportunity additionally requires compliance with disability nondiscrimination laws, including Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which collectively prohibit discrimination based on disability and influence how services, communications, and housing-related program actions must be administered.

Data and accountability requirements are built into the program design. Applicants are expected to establish data sharing and coordinated targeting between health and housing departments, including reporting on specific health-related data elements such as emergency room visits and asthma incidence for both enrolled households and the broader target area population. Beyond reporting, the grant emphasizes measuring results by gathering pre- and post-treatment data to support and validate the effectiveness of lead hazard control investments. This encourages grantees to demonstrate that interventions are producing meaningful environmental and health improvements, not just completing construction activities.

The program also includes requirements aimed at ensuring the public benefit of lead-safe units continues after the work is finished. Grantees must create and carry out a detailed monitoring process to ensure that units made lead-safe are affirmatively marketed and that families with children under age six receive priority access for up to three years. This is intended to keep the program aligned with its core purpose: protecting the children most at risk, not simply improving properties without ensuring the intended households benefit.

Economic opportunity is another stated objective. The grant directs that job training, employment, contracting, and other economic opportunities generated by grant activities should be directed to low- and very-low income people, particularly households receiving housing assistance, and to businesses that provide economic opportunities to low- and very-low income persons in the project area. HUD references 24 CFR 135, which ties this objective to established federal requirements and expectations around directing employment and contracting benefits to impacted communities.

Administratively, this opportunity is identified as Funding Opportunity Number FR 6200 N 12 under CFDA 14.900, categorized under housing. It was offered as a grant with an award ceiling of $4,100,000 and an anticipated 50 awards. The original closing date listed was August 2, 2018, with electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the deadline. Overall, the LHR program is best understood as a place-based lead hazard control initiative that combines targeted housing intervention, public health coordination, civil rights compliance, and measurable outcomes, with a strong emphasis on protecting young children in older, higher-risk housing and ensuring the benefits flow back to the communities most affected.

• The US Department of Housing and Urban Development in the housing sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 14.900.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 19, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 02, 2018 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $4,100,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 50 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).

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