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State Indoor Radon Grant (SIRG) Program
SIRG Program Guidance and Handbook
The State and Tribal Indoor Radon Grants Program Guidance and Handbook (January 2005) was developed to assist applicants and grant recipients with the administrative, technical, and programmatic requirements of the SIRG program.
- Read the State And Tribal Indoor Radon Grants Program Guidance and Handbook.
- If you are a state or tribe, you should first contact your Regional radon or SIRG program coordinator.
SIRG Match Tool
Try the SIRG Match Tool. The tool allows grant recipients to vary the dollar amount and match percentage to answer "what If" questions about the required match and the size of their radon program.
- Download the State Indoor Radon Grant Match Model(1 pg, 82 K)
If you need further information on EPA's SIRG program, contact Philip Jalbert (jalbert.philip@epa.gov).
On this page:
- Overview
- SIRG Measures and Results Reporting
- SIRG Funds Allocated to EPA Regional Offices
- Related Resources
Overview
State and tribal radon programs are critical to the Agency's national goal of minimizing and preventing radon-related lung cancer. States and tribes receive grant funds from EPA that help finance their radon risk reduction programs; recipients must provide a minimum of 40% in matching funds. By law, these State Indoor Radon Grant (SIRG) funds are not available to individuals or homeowners.
Those receiving SIRG funds must:
- Align their projects and activities with the Agency's strategic goals
- Demonstrate, capture and report results
The Agency's principal strategic goals are to:
- Build new homes with radon-reducing features where appropriate, by encouraging home builders to voluntarily include these features, and by local governments adopting building codes that require these features;
- Have existing homes tested and fixed by homeowners when appropriate, and especially by home sellers and buyers during residential real estate transfers;
- Build new schools with radon-reducing features where appropriate, and to have existing schools tested and fixed when necessary; and
- Conduct projects and activities that directly support the first three strategic goals (above), including promoting action by:
- consumers
- real estate professionals
- state and local building code officials
- schools officials
- non-profit public health organizations
- professional organizations
- partnerships
SIRG Measures and Results Reporting
To facilitate achieving its strategic goals, the Agency has outlined its strategic results measures in a template and supporting guidance. SIRG recipients are required to include the template in their annual work plans.
- Explanation of State Indoor Randon Grant Results Measures Template
- Guidance on Using the SIRG Measures Template and Meeting the Office of Management and Budget's Requirements
- SIRG State Measures Hierarchy and State Measures Template Checklist
SIRG Funds Allocated to EPA Regional Offices*
The following table shows how the Agency’s annual SIRG appropriation from Congress is allocated to EPA’s ten Regional offices. The Regional offices then make awards to participating states and tribes within their Region, for contact information see:
The information in this table was last updated on February 27, 2014.
| EPA Region | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region 1 (Boston, MA) |
$821,200 | $1,067,000 | $829,000 | $829,000 | $698,000 | $741,000 |
| Region 2 (New York, NY) |
$725,500 | $704,000 | $724,000 | $711,000 | $685,000 | $725,000 |
| Region 3 (Philadelphia, PA) |
$829,400 | $582,000 | $837,000 | $837,000 | $747,000 | $789,000 |
| Region 4 (Atlanta, GA) |
$1,377,400 | $1,498,500 | $1,375,000 | $1,375,000 | $1,331,000 | $1,392,000 |
| Region 5 (Chicago, IL) |
$1,827,400 | $2,146,300 | $1,815,000 | $1,815,000 | $1,760,000 | $1,851,000 |
| Region 6 (Dallas, TX) |
$408,400 | $158,000 | $407,000 | $407,000 | $396,000 | $419,000 |
| Region 7 (Kansas City, KS) |
$717,300 | $746,700 | $716,000 | $716,000 | $693,000 | $733,000 |
| Region 8 (Denver, CO) |
$587,000 | $624,500 | $586,000 | $586,000 | $569,000 | $604,000 |
| Region 9 (San Francisco, CA) |
$554,400 | $307,000 | $553,000 | $553,000 | $537,000 | $572,000 |
| Region 10 (Seattle, WA) |
$216,000 | $241,000 | $216,000 | $216,000 | $210,000 | $225,000 |
| Total | $8,074,000 | $8,074,000 | $8,058,000 | $8,045,000 | $7,626,000 | $8,051,000 |
| * Authorized by Sec. 306. Grant Assistance to States for Radon Programs, Title III, Indoor Radon Abatement, Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Exit, as amended, 15 U.S.C. §2661 et seq., P.L. 100-551, October 28, 1988. | ||||||
Related Resources
- Information on state and tribal SIRG related activities and the results they achieve are available from several sources.
- Information on EPA's tribal programs can be found on the:
- An additional resource is the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRPCD). CRCPD is EPA's principal partner on state radon programs as a group. CRCPD routinely highlights and archives information on the state and tribal radon programs.