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The ATSDR Partnership to Promote Local Efforts to Reduce Environmental Exposure (APPLETREE) cooperative agreement program will award $13.95 million to fund 30 state health departments to evaluate past and present exposure to environmental hazards and to prevent future exposures. The cooperative agreement will provide $66.5 million (projected) to 30 state health departments over the next 5 years, beginning April 1, 2023, and is part of the White House Justice40 Initiative.

ATSDR will give resources and guidance to assess and respond to site-specific issues involving exposure to hazardous substances in the environment. These activities include the following:

Some recipients will also use program awards to develop plans and take action to protect children from environmental hazards through the safe siting of early care and education facilities.

Safe siting of early care and education facilities will review the following:

A total of thirty state health departments applied for this funding and all state health departments that submitted an application will be funded under this Cooperative Agreement. Subject to the continued availability of funds, the following state health departments will receive APPLETREE Program funding during FY 20232028: AK, AR, AZ, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI.

The APPLETREE program is critical to ATSDRs success in accomplishing its mission to protect peoples health from environmental hazards that can be present in the air they breathe, the water they drink, or the food they eat. ATSDR is a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and co-located with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For a copy of the funding opportunity announcement, visit:

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=340900.

For more information about ATSDR, please visit http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov or call 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636). For more details about the APPLETREE program, visit https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/states/index.html.

ATSDR, a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, evaluates the potential for adverse human health effects of exposure to hazardous substances in the environment.

See the article here:
New Funding Announced to Evaluate Exposure to Environmental ... - CDC