This policy brief synthesizes practices and policies from cities and utilities that are creatively combining traditional and non-traditional funding and financing mechanisms to overcome legal, financial, and logistical barriers to covering LSL replacement costs.

This report on earmarks provides thoughtful, compelling data and policy analyses to support actionable recommendations for how Congress could make earmarking less harmful to their own states.

This report examines both successes and barriers in New York’s early efforts to replace LSLs and identifies policy solutions to accelerate progress, increase public health protections, and ensure compliance with federal requirements

Wisconsin Act 8 expands the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program to allow principal forgiveness to a private owner of a community water system if the loans are for lead service line replacement.

Citizens Energy has replaced 3,000 lead service lines

Guidance for local governments to comply with the EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) and Improvements (LCRI). Outlining regulatory requirements, strategies for public communication and risk management, and offering resources to support communities.

This checklist provides a step-by-step guide to developing a thoughtful financial plan for long-term success of your LSLR program.

Minnesota’s Lead Service Line Replacement Grant Program prioritizes the use grant funds to repay loans incurred for LSLR including DWSRF loans. Minn. Stat. 446A.077 §4(a).

The state’s SFY22 IUP assgined additional priority points based economic development criteria promoting job creation (Attachment 1, p. 2).

The SFY25 IUP limits SRF funding to projects that fully remove lead components (p. 18). It also allows multi-year applications for lead line replacements (p. 20), prioritizes collaborative applicants (p. 13), and offers principal forgiveness for private-side work and filters (p. 19).