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Safety

Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program

This program calls for:

• implementation of a national strategy, as defined in Title X, to build the infrastructure necessary to eliminate lead-based paint hazards in all housing, as widely and expeditiously as possible
  
• encouragement of effective action to prevent childhood lead poisoning by establishing a workable framework for lead-based paint hazard evaluation and reduction;
  
• expeditious mobilization of national resources, involving cooperation 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; and
  
• promoting job training, employment, and other economic lift opportunities for lower income residents of the project neighborhoods.

Grant money is approved for many activities that center around reducing the danger of lead-based paint poisoning. Applicants shall be states or units of general local government that have an approved Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) (Call contact for details). Eligible applicants must demonstrate the capability to identify housing units with significant lead-based paint hazards and to assure the future availability to low- and moderate-income persons of units in which hazard reduction has been conducted.

Ellis Goldman
Program Management Division
Office of Lead-Based Paint Abatement and Poisoning Prevention
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Room B-133
451 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20410
(202) 755-1822

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