State and Tribal Indoor Radon Grants (SIRG) Program and Resources
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Program 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 Plan
- Demonstrate, capture and report results in alignment with EPA’s FY2022-2026 Strategic Plan Framework. The Agency’s long-term performance goal is to prevent 2, 250 lung cancer deaths annually through lower radon exposure as compared to the FY2020 baseline of 1,684 prevented lung cancer deaths by September 30, 2026.
In alignment with the EPA’s FY2022-2026 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
- Learn more about the State And Tribal Indoor Radon Grants Program Handbook (pdf)
- Find out more about the 2014-2024 State and Tribal Indoor Radon Grant – Regional Allocation (pdf)
- Learn more about the Guidance on the Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards for State Indoor Radon Grant Recipients (pdf)
- Learn more about the SIRG Program: A Fact Sheet for Tribes.
- Discover more about the 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 (xlsx)
Annual SIRG Activities Reports
Discover successful ways grantees address emerging challenges and advancing radon risk reduction in the following reports:
- Overview of the EPA's State and Tribal Indoor Radon Grants Program: A focus of Activities Conducted During 2023 (pdf)
- Overview of EPA’s State & Tribal Indoor Radon Grants Program: A Focus on Activities Conducted During 2022 (pdf)
- Overview of EPA’s State Indoor Radon Grants Program: A Focus on Activities Conducted during 2021 (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)
Statutory Authorizations
- Learn more about the Indoor Radon Abatement Act or Title III Toxic Substances Control Act, Section 306 and the provisions aimed at reducing radon health risks.
- Read the Title Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2006, Public Law 109-54 which includes a provision "that the Federal share of the cost of radon program activities implemented with Federal assistance under section 306 shall not exceed 60 percent in the third and subsequent grant years.
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 the 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) Resources
- Learn more about the Quality Program Directives.
- Find more information at Quality Management Plan (QMP) Standard and the EPA's Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) Standard.
- Review the EPA QA/G-5: Guidance for Quality Assurance Project Plans.
- Learn more about the Quality Assurance for Air Sensors.
- Visit the the EPA's Frequent Questions about EPA's Quality Program, including questions and resources for QAPP Examples and Templates.