Application Notes:

Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. ET on August 14, 2025.

Applications must be submitted online at www.ecivis.com/grants.gov.

Applications must include:

• SF 424
• HUD 2880 (if applicable)
• Certification regarding lobbying (if applicable)
• SF LLL
• HUD Form 2991 (if applicable)
• HUD Form 50070 (if applicable)
• HUD Form 50153 (if applicable)
• HUD Form 2996 (if applicable)
• Budget worksheet
• Indirect cost information (if applicable)
• Project narrative (15 pages max)
• Abstract/project summary (2 pages max)

The project narrative must be double-spaced on standard-sized pages with at least one-inch margins on all sides and using a 12-point Times New Roman font. Applicants may not submit password-protected or encrypted files.

The following are required in order to submit an application:

• Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
• SAM (System for Award Management) registration

Applicants may obtain a UEI number and verify or renew SAM registration status at www.ecivis.com/sam.

Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Capacity of applicant and relevant organizational experience (60 points)
• Justification of applicant need (40 points)
• Preference points (4 points)

Refer to pages 23-31 of the NOFA file for additional details regarding the program's evaluation criteria.

Refer to the NOFA file for additional application information.

Match Notes:

Applicants must provide a match of at least 10 percent of the award amount, excluding Healthy Homes supplemental fund awards, via nonfederal cash and/or in-kind contributions.

Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds may be used as matching contributions, as long as they are specifically designated for activities and costs allowed by this program.

Other examples of eligible sources of match include:

• Documentation of contributions from property owners
• In-kind donated items, such as paint and other equipment used for lead-based paint hazard control
• Discounted part of the fee or price for services or products provided at a discounted rate and used an eligible use
• Third-party in-kind contributions

Shared costs or matching funds and contributions may not be paid by another federal award, except where the federal statute authorizing a program specifically provides that federal funds made available for such program can be applied to matching or cost sharing requirements of other federal programs.

The following may not be used as matching contributions:

• Federal funds other than CDBG funds, such as HOME or Weatherization Assistance Program funds, or funds that are not committed for allowable uses
• Nonfederal funds used to cover chelation or other medical treatment costs, including case management, related to children with elevated blood lead levels

Funding Notes:

Approximately $364.5 million is available to support approximately 50 awards through this program, as follows:

• Approximately $120.1 million is for lead hazard reduction demonstration (LHRD) awards to highest lead-based paint abatement needs applicants
• Approximately $203 million is for lead-based paint hazard control (LBPHC) awards to all other jurisdiction and never-before-grantee applicants
• Approximately $41.4 million is available for Healthy Homes supplemental related activities

The minimum award, regardless of category, is $1 million. Maximum awards will vary as follows:

• Applicants that would be a first-time recipient or whose previous lead hazard control award ended two or more years before the deadline may apply under the LBPHC category for lead hazard evaluation and control funding for up to $4 million
• Applicants with at least 3,500 pre-1940 occupied rental housing units either alone or through a consortium whose previous lead hazard control award is currently open or that ended less than two years before the deadline may apply under the LHRD category for up to $7 million
• Applicants with fewer than 3,500 pre-1940 occupied rental housing units either alone or through a consortium whose previous award is currently open or that ended less than two years ago may apply under the LBPHC category for up to $5 million

Applicants eligible under the LHRD category may choose to apply under the LBPHC category instead. In addition, applicants requesting funding under the LHRD category that do not meet the applicable criteria will be put into the LBPHC category and the requested amount lowered to the maximum for the funding group based on their lead hazard reduction awared history if the requested funding exceeded that applicable funding group’s maximum.

For Healthy Homes supplemental funding, an applicant that would be a first-time recipient or whose previous lead hazard control grant ended two or more years before the deadline may apply for up to $400,000 in addition to the required lead funding. Other applicants may apply for up to $750,000 for Healthy Homes activities in addition to the required lead funding.

Awards are anticipated to be provided on September 15, 2025.

Project periods will span 48 months with an estimated project start date of October 15, 2025, and an estimated end date of October 14, 2029.

At least 65 percent of award funds must be expended on lead hazard control costs, excluding Healthy Homes supplemental funding.

Up to 10 percent of the award may be used for administrative costs, excluding Healthy Homes supplemental funding.

With the exception of the purchase or lease of up to two X-ray fluorescence analyzers to be used exclusively in the supported project, the purchase or lease of equipment is limited to equipment with a per-unit cost of $5,000 or less.

Funds may not be used for:

• Purchase of real property
• Chelation or other medical treatment costs, including case management, related to children with elevated blood lead levels (EBLs)
• Lead hazard evaluation or control activities in public housing; project-based Section 8 housing; housing for the elderly; housing for persons with disabilities; any zero-bedroom dwelling, unless any child who is less than six years of age resides or is expected to reside in such housing; or housing built after 1977
• Complete or gut rehabilitation, demolition of housing units, or detached buildings
• Lead hazard evaluation or control activities in housing covered by a pending or final funding agency, EPA, and/or Department of Justice settlement agreement, consent decree, court order, or other similar action
• Activities that do not comply with the Coastal Barrier Resources Act
• Lead hazard control or rehabilitation of buildings located in areas identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 as having special flood hazards, unless the conditions on page 14 of the NOFA file are met

In August 2023, 36 awards ranging from $1,345,195 to $7,997,798 were issued through this program. In September 2022, over $125 million was distributed via 26 awards. Refer to the Award file for details.