Environmental Protection Agency · Water & Wastewater
EPA WIIN Reducing Lead in Drinking Water Grant Program
Funds projects in disadvantaged communities to reduce lead in drinking water, including service-line replacement, pitcher-filter distribution, and lead-testing in schools and child-care facilities.
Whether your city can win this comes down to hard rules — population, designation, match capacity. Run your city and our AI checks it against the rules below in about 8 minutes.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $500K – $8M
- Non-federal match
- Varies by NOFO
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- Annual NOFO.
- Typical prep time
- 8–14 weeks
- Statutory authority
- WIIN Act §2104 (Safe Drinking Water Act §1459B); IIJA §50108
Who is eligible for EPA WIIN Reducing Lead in Drinking Water Grant Program?
These are the hard rules we check against. If one fails, the program is ineligible — the AI never overrides a rule.
- Cities are eligible applicants.
- Justice40-prioritized: scoring favors disadvantaged communities (CEJST tracts).
Distinct from DWSRF LSL set-aside. WIIN-funded, narrower scope, faster cycle. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
Run a city dossier and our AI cross-checks ACS demographics, 5-year USAspending award history, FEMA disaster history, and CEJST/Justice40 + HUD designations against this program's rules. You get a clear eligibility, strategic, and competitive answer — with the city's own hard evidence ready to anchor the narrative — instead of a generic match badge. And if it's a no-go, you'll know before you spend the month.
The dossier isn't the AI's guesswork — eligibility is decided by the rules, and the numbers come straight from official sources. The answer your reviewer will check line by line.
No credit card. 30-day trial, 3 dossiers, 1 seat.
Related programs
- Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) (EPA)$500K – $100M
- Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) (EPA)$500K – $50M
- Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) Loans (EPA)$20M – $1B
- Lead Service Line Replacement (DWSRF Set-Aside) (EPA)$500K – $50M
- Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grants (OSG) (EPA)$1M – $50M
- Solid Waste Management Grant Program (USDA Rural Development)$50K – $500K
Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.