2018 US Code
Title 42 - The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 63A - Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction
Sec. 4851a - Purposes
| 42 U.S.C. § 4851a (2018) |
| §4851a. Purposes |
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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 Nation's 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. |
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(Pub. L. 102–550, title X, §1003, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3897.) |
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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. |
| United States Code, 2018 Edition, Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE |
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| Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE CHAPTER 63A - RESIDENTIAL LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD REDUCTION Sec. 4851a - Purposes |
| section 4851a |
| 2018 |
| January 14, 2019 |
| No |
| standard |
| 106 Stat. 3897 |
| Public Law 102-550 |
