State and Tribal Indoor Radon Grants (SIRG) Program and Resources
On this page:
- Overview
- General SIRG Information
- Annual SIRG Activities Reports
- Authorizations
- Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) Checklist and Templates
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
In alignment with EPA’s FY2018-2022 Strategic Goals, the Agency’s radon program’s principle objectives 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
General SIRG Information
- 2012-2022 SIRG Funding Regional Allocation (PDF) (EPA 402/A-22/001, April 2022)
- State And Tribal Indoor Radon Grants Program Guidance and Handbook. (PDF) (EPA 402/B-05/002, January 2005)
- Guidance on the Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards for State Indoor Radon Grant Recipients (PDF) (EPA 402/B-22/004, May 2022)
- SIRG Program: A Fact Sheet for Tribes
- SIRG Match Tools
- SIRG - Training Related In-kind Match Contribution Form Tool (PDF) (EPA 402/B-14/001, May 2014)
- Download the SIRG Match Model (xls)
Annual SIRG Activities Reports
- Overview of EPA’s State Indoor Radon Grants Program: A Focus on Activities Conducted during 2021 (PDF)(EPA 402/S-22/001, February 2022)
- Overview of EPA’s State Indoor Radon Grants Program: A Focus on Activities Conducted during 2020 (PDF)(EPA 402/S-21/002, March 2021)
- Overview of EPA’s State Indoor Radon Grants Program: A Focus on Activities Conducted during 2019 (PDF)(EPA 402/S-20/002, February 2020)
- Overview of EPA’s State Indoor Radon Grants Program: A Focus on Activities Conducted during Fiscal Years 2017 – 2018 (PDF)(EPA 402/S-19/002, April 2019)
- Overview of EPA’s State Indoor Radon Grants Program: House Report 114–170 (PDF) (EPA 402/S-19/003, April 2019)
Statutory Authorizations
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- Indoor Radon Abatement Act or Title III Toxic Substances Control Act, Section 306
- Title Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2006, Public Law 109-54
Applicant Eligibility
- 40 CFR Part 35.700-708, State and Local Assistance - Codifies environmental program grants for Tribal Nations and Tribal Consortia
- 66 FR 3782- Environmental Program Grants for Tribes - Describes EPA’s interpretation of statutes and adds and adds Tribal Nations and Tribal Consortia as eligible applicants
Please check with your regional radon or SIRG program coordinator for additional guidance.
Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) Checklist and Templates
- Region 4 QAPP Review Checklist (PDF)(EPA 402/B-07/002, March 2007)
- State Radon QAPP Template (PDF)(EPA 402/B-17/003, March 2017)
- Tribal Radon QAPP Template (PDF)(EPA 402/B-17/004, June 2017)
- State And Tribal Indoor Radon Grants Program Guidance And Handbook (pdf)
- Guidance on the Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards for State Indoor Radon Grant Recipients (pdf)
- 2011-2021 STATE INDOOR RADON GRANT – REGIONAL ALLOCATION (pdf)
- SIRG FY2021 Funding Guidance (rev) (pdf)
- Overview of EPA’s State Indoor Radon Grants Program: A Focus on Activities Conducted during 2020 (pdf)
- Overview of EPA’s State Indoor Radon Grants Program: A Focus on Activities Conducted during 2019 (pdf)
- Overview of EPA’s State Indoor Radon Grants Program: A Focus on Activities Conducted during Fiscal Years 2017 – 2018 (pdf)
- Overview of EPA’s State Indoor Radon Grants Program: House Report 114–170 (pdf)
- SIRG - Training Related In-kind Match Contribution Form (pdf)
- Region 4 Quality Assurance Project Plan Review Checklist (pdf)
- Quality Assurance Project Plan State Radon Monitoring Program Measuring Indoor Radon Concentrations using Name of Detector (pdf)
- Quality Assurance Project Plan Tribal Radon Monitoring Program Measuring Indoor Radon Concentrations using Name of Detector (pdf)