APPLETREE Funding Announcements for FY 2020-2023
Cooperative Agreement Funding Announcements
ATSDR will award $11.8 million annually to 28 state health departments for fiscal year (FY) 2020-2023. The states will use the funding to evaluate past and present exposure to environmental hazards and to prevent future exposures. ATSDR is a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and co-located with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The cooperative agreement program, ATSDR’s Partnership to Promote Local Efforts to Reduce Environmental Exposure (APPLETREE), will give states resources and guidance to assess and respond to site-specific issues involving exposure to hazardous substances in the environment by
- Identifying exposure pathways at specific sites
- Reviewing environmental and health data to identify potential health risks from exposures
- Making recommendations to prevent exposures
- Educating affected communities and local health professionals about site contamination and potential health effects at sites
During this funding cycle, funded states will also use program awards to develop plans and take action to protect children from environmental hazards through the safe siting of early care and education facilities.
The safe siting of early care and education facilities will include a review of the following:
- Former uses of a site that may have left harmful substances on the property (both building and land)
- Possible migration of harmful substances onto the site from nearby properties or activities
- Any naturally occurring harmful substances on site
- Access to safe drinking water at the site
The following state health departments will receive APPLETREE Program funding during FY 2020-2023.
- Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
- California Department of Public Health
- Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment
- Connecticut Department of Public Health
- Florida Department of Health
- Georgia Department of Public Health
- Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
- Illinois Department of Public Health
- Louisiana Department of Health
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Michigan Department of Health & Human Services
- Minnesota Department of Health
- Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services
- Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services
- New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
- New Jersey Department of Health
- New Mexico Department of Health
- New York Department of Health (Health Research, Inc)
- North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services
- Ohio Department of Health
- Oregon Health Authority
- Pennsylvania Department of Health
- Rhode Island Department of Health
- Tennessee Department of Health
- Texas Department of State Health Services
- Utah Department of Health
- Washington Department of Health
- Wisconsin Department of Health Services
The APPLETREE program is critical to ATSDR’s success in accomplishing its mission to protect people’s health from environmental hazards that can be present in the air they breathe, the water they drink, or the food they eat. For a copy of the Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), visit https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/states/docs/CDC-RFA-TS20-2001external icon.