Guidance

Identifying Funding Sources for Lead Service Line Replacement

This webpage features resources providing guidance on federal and funding sources for lead service line replacement and laws related to this funding.

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Copper pipes procurement

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Cooperative Purchasing Program (COSTARs)

Pennsylvania COSTARs program enables cooperative purchasing to pre-procure materials for lead service line replacement work which has helped systems like Erie Water Works to realize cost and time savings.

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Minnesota private side LSLR

Minnesota statute requires state funding to cover private-side LSLR

Minnesota’s Lead Service Line Replacement Grant Program requires grant money be used to cover private-side replacements. Minn. Stat. 446A.077 §4(b).

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Minnesota

Minnesota ties workforce development to SRF funding

Minnesota statute requires the submission of a workforce plan for water systems applying for state funding with 15,000 or more service connections. Minn. Stat. 446.077 §6.

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H2Ohio –Lead Service Line Assessment & Replacement

H2Ohio – Lead Service Line Assessment & Replacement

Ohio EPA funds lead pipe replacement in communities and daycare centers, as well as mapping efforts to identify these hazardous lines.

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Community Technical, Managerial, and Financial (TMF) Support for Lead Line Replacement Grant

The TMF program’s goal is to better position communities to take advantage of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) DWSRF dollars for lead line replacement, which are available through Fiscal Year 2027.

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Illinois State Capitol

Illinois statute requires full LSLR

Illinois law requires full replacement of lead service lines with varying timelines according to water system size. 415 ILCS 5/17.12.

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Replacing lead pipes at construction site

Minnesota LSLR grants require LSLR and water main replacement coordination plans

Minnesota’s lead service line replacement grant program requires applicants to submit plans describing how they will coordinate service line and water main replacement projects. Minn. Stat. 446A.077 §5(a).

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Minnesota Statutes

Minnesota aims to complete LSLR by 2033

Minnesota statute sets a goal of replacing all lead service lines in the state by 2033. Minn. Stat.446.078.

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Drinking Water Assistance Fund (DWAF) – Program Year 2025 Draft Program Management Plan

Ohio’s SRF program offers 40 year loans with 0% interest rates to state-defined disadvantaged communities (p. 46).

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Milwaukee is one of the few cities in the country with a prioritization plan to ensure neighborhoods likely to suffer the most severe impacts from lead poisoning get their pipes replaced first. In consultation with a community-based group, Coalition for Lead Emergency (COLE), and following a public engagement process, Milwaukee included in an ordinance three indicators to prioritize where LSLs will be removed first:

  1. The area deprivation index (ADI), which is a compilation of social determinants of health
  2. The percentage of children found to have elevated lead levels in their blood when tested for lead poisoning
  3. The density of lead service lines in the neighborhood.

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