§2682 Lead-based Paint Activities Training and Certification

Summary

The Administrator must create final rules within 18 months after October 28, 1992, working with the Secretaries of Labor, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services (through NIOSH). The rules must require proper training, accredited training programs, and certification for contractors who do lead-based paint work. The rules must set safe, reliable standards for how to do this work and require that risk assessments, inspections, and abatement in target housing be done by certified contractors. The accreditation rules must include minimum standards for training providers, curriculum, hours, hands-on practice, trainee skills, and quality control. The Administrator (or an authorized State) may charge fees to cover program costs for accredited training programs and certified contractors, but not to State or local governments or nonprofit training programs. The Administrator may waive fees for contractors who train only their own employees. For renovation and remodeling, the Administrator must publish guidelines within 18 months after October 28, 1992, to lower lead exposure when work may create lead hazards and share them with stores, trade groups, agencies, and others. The Administrator must study how much renovators are exposed to or disturb lead and publish the results within 30 months after October 28, 1992. Within 4 years after that date, the Administrator must update the certification rules to cover renovation or remodeling that creates lead hazards, using the study results and consulting labor, contractors, health experts, and others. If some types of renovators are found not to need certification, the Administrator must explain why. Definitions (one line each): target housing — homes covered by the rules; lead-based paint activities — for target housing: risk assessment, inspection, abatement; for older public buildings, commercial buildings, bridges, and similar structures: finding lead, deleading, removing lead from bridges, and demolition. Deleading means offering or planning to remove or eliminate lead paint or lead hazards.