State Cooperative Agreement Program by The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s (ATSDR’s) Cooperative Agreement Program is critical to ATSDR’s success in accomplishing its mission in communities nationwide. The Program funds 30 partner organizations. Thirty states use Cooperative Agreement Program funding to build their ability to evaluate and respond to environmental public health issues.

The Cooperative Agreement Program’s primary goal is to give partners the resources to build their capacity to assess and respond to site-specific issues involving human exposure to hazardous substances in the environment.