§2682 Lead-based Paint Activities Training and Certification

Summary

EPA must, working with the Labor, HUD, and Health agencies, write and publish final rules within 18 months after October 28, 1992 that set training, accreditation, and certification for people who work with lead paint. The rules must set safe, reliable, and effective work standards. They must require that all risk assessments, inspections, and abatement in target housing be done by certified contractors. The rules must also set accreditation rules for training programs, covering who can be an approved trainer, course content, hours, hands-on practice, trainee skills checks, and program quality control. EPA or an approved State must charge fees to accredited training providers and to certified contractors. These new rules replace the earlier 1992 training and grant provisions as of October 28, 1992. For this law, “lead-based paint activities” means two groups: for target housing it means risk assessment, inspection, and abatement; for public buildings built before 1978, commercial buildings, bridges, and similar structures it means finding lead paint, deleading, removing lead from bridges, and demolition. EPA must also publish guidelines within 18 months after October 28, 1992 for renovation and remodeling that could raise lead hazard risks and share them through stores, trade groups, and agencies. EPA must study how often workers are exposed or create hazards and publish the study within 30 months after October 28, 1992. Within 4 years after that date, EPA must update the rules to cover renovation and remodeling that create lead hazards, using the study and consulting stakeholders, and explain if any contractor group is not required to be certified.