§2682 Lead-based paint activities training and certification

Summary

The Administrator must write final rules within 18 months after October 28, 1992, working with the Secretaries of Labor and Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (through the Director of NIOSH). The rules must make sure people who do lead work are trained, that training programs are approved, and that contractors who do lead work are certified. The rules must set safe and effective work standards and require that risk assessments, inspections, and abatement in target housing be done by certified contractors. The new rules replace the earlier “Lead Abatement Training and Certification” and “Training Grants” rules in Public Law 102–139, which ended on October 28, 1992. The rules must also set minimum requirements for approving training providers, the course content, hours, hands-on practice, trainee skill checks, and program quality control. The Administrator (or an authorized State) must charge fees to approved training programs and to certified contractors. For this law, “lead-based paint activities” means, in target housing: risk assessment, inspection, and abatement; and, for public buildings built before 1978, commercial buildings, bridges, and other structures: finding lead paint, deleading, removing lead from bridges, and demolition. Within 18 months after October 28, 1992, the Administrator must also issue and share guidelines for renovation and remodeling that might create lead exposure. The Administrator must study how often renovation and remodeling workers are exposed to or disturb lead and publish the results within 30 months after October 28, 1992. Within 4 years after October 28, 1992, the Administrator must revise the rules to cover renovation and remodeling activities that create lead hazards, using the study and consulting workers, contractors, experts, and others; if some types of contractors are found not to need certification, the Administrator must explain why.