EPA’s New Lead-based Paint Law Begins in April
The EPA’s “Lead: Renovation, Repair and Painting Program” law goes into effect April 2010. This law requires contractors and maintenance professionals to be certified, and their employees trained, in protective lead-safe work practice standards when renovation, repair or painting activities will disturb more than six square feet of lead-based paint in a room or when 20 square feet of lead-based paint is disturbed on the exterior. This law focuses on homes and child-occupied buildings constructed prior to 1978, the year lead-based paint was banned.
This law requires contractors to post warning signs, restrict occupants from work areas, prevent dust and debris from spreading, conduct a thorough cleanup and verify that the cleanup was effective. Encore has been certified.