EPA lead paint law demand all firms at least one certified renovator

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Renovation, Repair and Painting (EPA-RRP) lead law, pointed at protecting kids from lead intoxication, will go into effect 22nd of April.

EPA-RRP lead rule requires property managers, contractors, and anyone paid to do work on apartments, houses and child inhabited facilities constructed before 1978 to be qualified by the EPA.

“The whole genesis of the new U.S. E.P.A. rule called the Renovation, Repair and Paint rule, that’s what we’re talking about today, is that certain steps need to be followed when in fact they do these remodeling and renovations in pre-78 houses which have the possibility of containing lead paint,” said Lead Program Manager Sam Churchill, from the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Lead Program Manager says the law will demand all firms acting upon on pre-1978 buildings must be attested by the E.P.A.

Each firm is then asked to have at least one renovator who’s also qualified by the E.P.A.

Renovator and the firms will be trained by the E.P.A. on how to hold back clean up after working with lead paint, dust from lead paint and general safe work precautions.

According to statistic, in 2008 there were more than 5,300 children in Illinois contaminated with lead poisoning.