42 U.S.C. § 4851a: Purposes

Summary

Creates a national plan with seven goals to quickly remove lead paint hazards from housing and change how the country finds and fixes them. The goals are to build needed systems, run a nationwide program to find and reduce hazards, set clear standards to prevent childhood lead poisoning, include lead hazards in housing policy and in sales, rentals, and renovations, unite government and private parties for cost‑effective methods, cut risks in federal housing, and teach the public how to avoid lead exposure.

Title 42, §4851a

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The purposes of this chapter are—

(1)to develop a national strategy to build the infrastructure necessary to eliminate lead-based paint hazards in all housing as expeditiously as possible;

(2)to reorient the national approach to the presence of lead-based paint in housing to implement, on a priority basis, a broad program to evaluate and reduce lead-based paint hazards in the Nation’s housing stock;

(3)to encourage effective action to prevent childhood lead poisoning by establishing a workable framework for lead-based paint hazard evaluation and reduction and by ending the current confusion over reasonable standards of care;

(4)to ensure that the existence of lead-based paint hazards is taken into account in the development of Government housing policies and in the sale, rental, and renovation of homes and apartments;

(5)to mobilize national resources expeditiously, through a partnership among all levels of government and the private sector, to develop the most promising, cost-effective methods for evaluating and reducing lead-based paint hazards;

(6)to reduce the threat of childhood lead poisoning in housing owned, assisted, or transferred by the Federal Government; and

(7)to educate the public concerning the hazards and sources of lead-based paint poisoning and steps to reduce and eliminate such hazards.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning title X of Pub. L. 102–550, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3897, known as the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 4851 of this title and Tables.

§4851a Purposes