42-U.S.C.-4851A
§4851A – Purposes
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Title 42 > Chapter 63A > Section 4851a
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- Reference: Section 4851a
- Legend: §4851A – Purposes
- USCode Year: 2011
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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 Nations 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.
(Pub. L. 102–550, title X, §1003, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3897.)
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.
U.S. Encyclopedia of Law Coverage
Chapter 63A – Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction in the Legal Encyclopedia: Public Health
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Subchapter II – Grants For Elimination of Lead-Based Paint Poisoning in the Legal Encyclopedia: Paint
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