“The Alabama Radon Program partnered with the state Department of Public Health and the University of Alabama to advance work on the Alabama Healthy Homes Initiative. The state’s radon program provided radon information and test kits to residents while the project leveraged funding from a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Healthy Homes Production Grants designed to remove environmental and safety hazards from some of Alabama’s vulnerable and underserved communities.”
Overview of EPA’s State and Tribal Indoor Radon Grants Program: A Focus on Activities Conducted During 2022, published in February 2023, notes this as an accomplishment. (https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-02/2022%20Annual%20SIRG%20Activities%20Report.pdf)
Excerpts from the press release explain:
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) Bureau of Environmental Services, Indoor Air Quality and Lead Branch, and the University of Alabama were awarded a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Healthy Homes Production Grant to remove environmental and safety hazards from some of Alabama’s vulnerable and underserved communities. The University of Alabama SafeState Program and the Alabama Life Research Institute will help manage the $2 million grant award and remediation activities.
The Healthy Homes and Healthy Communities in the Black Belt Region of Alabama program will target approximately 150 low-income homes in counties that make up a portion of the Black Belt region of the state. During the 42-month grant period, the program will identify and provide solutions for environmental hazards like indoor air quality, mold and moisture, pests, carbon monoxide, lead-based paint, asbestos and radon, as well as general safety hazards like indoor and outdoor structural issues.
For more information, visit alabamasafestate.ua.edu/healthyhomes/
Press release contacts: Steven McDaniel, (334) 206-5752, ADPH, or Michael Rasbury, (205) 348-3967, UA SafeState
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