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Lead Paint Test Kits Workshop: Summary Report
Citation:
HARPER, S. L., K. R. ROGERS, J. M. VAN EMON, AND M. MEDINA-VERA. Lead Paint Test Kits Workshop: Summary Report. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-10/066 (NTIS PB2010-112902), 2010.
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory′s (NERL) Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (HEASD) conducts research in support of EPA′s mission to protect human health and the environment. HEASD′s research program supports Goal 1 (Clean Air) and Goal 4 (Healthy People) of EPA′s strategic plan. More specifically, our division conducts research to characterize the movement of pollutants from the source to contact with humans. Our multidisciplinary research program produces Methods, Measurements, and Models to identify relationships between and characterize processes that link source emissions, environmental concentrations, human exposures, and target-tissue dose. The impact of these tools is improved regulatory programs and policies for EPA.
Description:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) designed and conducted the Lead Paint Test Kits Workshop on October 19 and 20, 2006, at the Environmental Protection Agency's Research Triangle Park, NC campus. The workshop was conducted as part of ORD's support to EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT). OPPT has requested ORD's assistance in lead paint test kit technology development to support the proposed "Lead; Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program; Proposed Rule" (RRP rule) published in the January 10, 2006 Federal Register (pp.1587-l636). The proposed rule supports the attainment of the Federal government's goal of eliminating childhood lead poisoning by 2010. In the rule, EPA proposes new requirements to reduce exposures to lead hazards created by renovation, repair, and painting activities that disturb leadbased paint. EPA has proposed the use of EPA-recognized test kits to determine whether the components to be affected are free of regulated lead-based paint. The Federal regulated level is defined as paint containing lead at or above 1.0 mg/cm 2 or 0.5% by weight.