This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits applications that work directly with communities to reduce environmental risk to protect and improve human health and the quality of life.

The Healthy Environmental Living Program (HELP) will achieve this through identifying and funding

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projects that:
Assess, understand, and reduce environmental and human health risk.

Increase collaboration through community capacity to understand and solve environmental and human health problems.

Build institutional and community capacity to understand and solve environmental and human health problems.

Achieve measurable environmental and human health benefits.

Reduce pollution at the source.

Advance emergency preparedness and resilience.To qualify as eligible projects under HELP, proposed projects must:
(1) address Environmental Justice (EJ) in the states, tribes, and territories within EPA Region 6 states:
Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas; and (2) identify how the proposed project will achieve measurable environmental and/or public health results in one or more of the following Target Program Areas:
Pollution Prevention, Sustainable Materials Management, Lead-based Paint and/or Integrated Pest Management.

Please see Section III for further information on eligibility requirements.