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widespread prevalence of lead service lines, Treasury encourages recipients to consider projects to replace lead service lines. In addition, Treasury is providing in the final rule that for lead service line replacement projects, recipients must replace the full length of the service line, and not just a partial portion of the service line. Some water utilities, when replacing service lines, will only replace the "public portion" of the service line and physically slice through the lead service line at the public/private line. This action can result in elevated drinking water lead levels for some period of time after replacement, suggesting the potential for harm, rather than benefit during that time period.318 Requiring replacement of the full length of the service line is also consistent with the requirements of the EPA's Lead and Copper Rule Revisions for water systems that have an action level exceedance for lead319 and certain other water systems.32° Treasury is expanding eligible uses of SLFRF funds to include infrastructure projects eligible under EPA grant programs authorized by the WIIN Act. 321 Eligible projects under these programs include the installation or re -optimization of corrosion control treatment, replacing lead service lines, replacing galvanized pipes downstream of a lead service line (other than lead pipes within a home as discussed below), and maintaining an inventory of the drinking water system's service lines. Water quality testing, compliance monitoring, and remediation activities in schools and other childcare facilities, as well as activities necessary to respond to a contaminant, are 318 See EPA Science Advisory Board, Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Partial Lead Service Line Replacements, (September 2011), https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/science-advisory-board-evaluation-effectiveness-partial-lead-service- line-replacements (advising against partial lead service line replacement). 319 Environmental Protection Agency, supra note 191. 32o Environmental Protection Agency, National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Lead and Copper Rule Revisions, 86 FR 4198. 40 CFR 141.84, and preamble at 4215, January 15, 2021, https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2020-28691; scheduled to become effective December 16, 2021, Environmental Protection Agency, 86 FR 31939, https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2021-12600. 321 Eligible uses of funds include those eligible under the Small, Underserved, and Disadvantaged Communities Grant (Section 2104), Reduction in Lead Exposure via Drinking Water Grant Program (Section 2105) and Lead Testing in School and Child Care Program Drinking Water Grant Program (Section 2107). 284