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EPA's New Renovation,Repair and Painting Rule
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Kevin
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 Thu Aug 20th, 2009 03:58 pm
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Does any one have information about the new EPA rules that go into affect in April 2010 and how it affects our industry?

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Kevin Ryan

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 Posted: Thu Aug 20th, 2009 04:27 pm
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Look here.

http://www.sustainablehomemag.com/Articles/Feature_Article/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000549460

 

"Under the rule, beginning in April 2010, contractors performing renovation, repair and painting projects that disturb lead-based paint in homes, child care facilities, and schools built before 1978 must be certified and must follow specific work practices to prevent lead contamination."

It looks like it's more to do with homes and schools than churches.

 

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each state has lead safety initiatives ... there are local organizations that offer a lead safe work practice certification, for a nominal fee, that we have all our workers take ... deals mostly with paint and clean up but very helpful overall ... presents the latest in guidlines for lead safety

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 Posted: Fri Aug 21st, 2009 12:55 am
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They do not apply to anything other than renovations of "housing or child-occupied facilities."  The housing must be built before 1978, and "child occupied facility" is defied as
[A] building, or portion of a building, constructed prior to 1978, visited regularly by the same child, under 6 years of age, on at least two different days within any week (Sunday through Saturday period), provided that each day's visit lasts at least 3 hours and the combined weekly visits last at least 6 hours, and the combined annual visits last at least 60 hours. Child-occupied facilities may include, but are not limited to, day care centers, preschools and kindergarten classrooms. Child-occupied facilities may be located in target housing or in public or commercial buildings. With respect to common areas in public or commercial buildings that contain child-occupied facilities, the child-occupied facility encompasses only those common areas that are routinely used by children under age 6, such as restrooms and cafeterias. Common areas that children under age 6 only pass through, such as hallways, stairways, and garages are not included. In addition, with respect to exteriors of public or commercial buildings that contain child-occupied facilities, the child-occupied facility encompasses only the exterior sides of the building that are immediately adjacent to the child-occupied facility or the common areas routinely used by children under age 6.
Oddly, studio apartments are excluded from the Act.

For additional fun reading, the following work is considered to be a "renovation":
Renovation means the modification of any existing structure, or portion thereof, that results in the disturbance of painted surfaces, unless that activity is performed as part of an abatement as defined by this part (40 CFR 745.223). The term renovation includes (but is not limited to): The removal, modification or repair of painted surfaces or painted components (e.g., modification of painted doors, surface restoration, window repair, surface preparation activity (such as sanding, scraping, or other such activities that may generate paint dust)); the removal of building components (e.g., walls, ceilings, plumbing, windows); weatherization projects (e.g., cutting holes in painted surfaces to install blown-in insulation or to gain access to attics, planing thresholds to install weather-stripping), and interim controls that disturb painted surfaces. A renovation performed for the purpose of converting a building, or part of a building, into target housing or a child-occupied facility is a renovation under this subpart. The term renovation does not include minor repair and maintenance activities.
I will spare you the droning definition of "minor repair or renovation" as I am sure your eyes have already cross by now and you wonder how even lawyers under stand all this gooble-de-gook. 

If you do residential window repairs, you can demand that someone else remove the window if it is installed in an older home, especially if there are painted areas around it that predate 1978.  You could also hire someone who is licensed.  The rules seem to be concerned only with "painted surfaces."  The fact that you may have lead pipes in your house appears to be irrelevant.



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