ATSDR's Partnership to Promote Local Efforts To Reduce Environmental Exposure | CDC RFA TS20 2001

Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA TS20 2001

ATSDR's Partnership to Promote Local Efforts To Reduce Environmental Exposure is a federal cooperative agreement opportunity from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), housed within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The program is designed to strengthen and maintain on-the-ground capacity nationwide to evaluate and address human exposure to hazardous substances associated with hazardous waste sites. The core public health concern behind the funding is that releases from these sites can lead to harmful exposures in everyday settings such as homes, schools, workplaces, and entire neighborhoods, and those exposures can be difficult to detect, interpret, and reduce because they often involve multiple chemicals, different ways people come into contact with contamination (for example, air, water, soil, dust, or food pathways), and a range of possible health effects.

The opportunity emphasizes that hazardous waste site exposure problems are rarely simple. A single site may include several toxic substances, may affect multiple media (like groundwater and indoor air at the same time), and may create health risks that vary by population group, duration of exposure, and local conditions. Because of that complexity, the program focuses on building practical, sustained capacity to evaluate exposures, understand who may be affected and how, and support actions that prevent or reduce exposure. A key part of the approach is partnership: ATSDR highlights working closely with other agencies and stakeholders to carry out exposure evaluations, communicate with and educate communities, and develop improved strategies that better protect public health over time.

From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement structure, which generally means recipients are expected to work in active collaboration with ATSDR rather than operating entirely independently. The funding opportunity title is "ATSDR's Partnership to Promote Local Efforts To Reduce Environmental Exposure" and the funding opportunity number is CDC RFA TS20 2001. The program falls under the health funding activity category and is associated with CFDA number 93.136.

Eligible applicants are broad and oriented toward governmental and public-serving entities that can conduct or coordinate environmental health and exposure work. Eligibility includes state governments; county governments; city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized tribal governments. ATSDR anticipated making around 25 awards under this announcement. The listing provided an award ceiling of 0, which typically signals that a specific maximum amount was not stated in the summary data presented rather than implying no funding is available.

Key dates in the source information show the opportunity was created on August 21, 2019, with an original closing date of December 15, 2019. Applications were required to be submitted electronically by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Overall, the intent of the opportunity is to support partners in systematically evaluating hazardous waste-related exposures, improving community understanding of risks, and advancing protective public health actions so communities are safer from exposure-related illness and disease.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - ATSDR in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "ATSDR's Partnership to Promote Local Efforts To Reduce Environmental Exposure" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.136.
• This funding opportunity was created on Aug 21, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Dec 15, 2019 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.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 25 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments).

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