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[CITE: 42USC4851]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
       CHAPTER 63A--RESIDENTIAL LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD REDUCTION
 
Sec. 4851. Findings

    The Congress finds that--
        (1) low-level lead poisoning is widespread among American 
    children, afflicting as many as 3,000,000 children under age 6, with 
    minority and low-income communities disproportionately affected;
        (2) at low levels, lead poisoning in children causes 
    intelligence quotient deficiencies, reading and learning 
    disabilities, impaired hearing, reduced attention span, 
    hyperactivity, and behavior problems;
        (3) pre-1980 American housing stock contains more than 3,000,000 
    tons of lead in the form of lead-based paint, with the vast majority 
    of homes built before 1950 containing substantial amounts of lead-
    based paint;
        (4) the ingestion of household dust containing lead from 
    deteriorating or abraded lead-based paint is the most common cause 
    of lead poisoning in children;
        (5) the health and development of children living in as many as 
    3,800,000 American homes is endangered by chipping or peeling lead 
    paint, or excessive amounts of lead-contaminated dust in their 
    homes;
        (6) the danger posed by lead-based paint hazards can be reduced 
    by abating lead-based paint or by taking interim measures to prevent 
    paint deterioration and limit children's exposure to lead dust and 
    chips;
        (7) despite the enactment of laws in the early 1970's requiring 
    the Federal Government to eliminate as far as practicable lead-based 
    paint hazards in federally owned, assisted, and insured housing, the 
    Federal response to this national crisis remains severely limited; 
    and
        (8) the Federal Government must take a leadership role in 
    building the infrastructure--including an informed public, State and 
    local delivery systems, certified inspectors, contractors, and 
    laboratories, trained workers, and available financing and 
    insurance--necessary to ensure that the national goal of eliminating 
    lead-based paint hazards in housing can be achieved as expeditiously 
    as possible.

(Pub. L. 102-550, title X, Sec. 1002, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3897.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1001 of title X of Pub. L. 102-550 provided that: ``This 
title [enacting this chapter and sections 2681 to 2692 of Title 15, 
Commerce and Trade, amending sections 1437f, 1437aaa-1, 1437aaa-2, 1471, 
4822, 5305, 12705, 12742, 12872, 12873, 12892, and 12893 of this title, 
sections 1703, 1709, and 1715l of Title 12, Banks and Banking, sections 
2606, 2610, 2612, 2615, 2616, 2618, and 2619 of Title 15, and section 
671 of Title 29, Labor, and enacting provisions set out as a note under 
section 2601 of Title 15] may be cited as the `Residential Lead-Based 
Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992'.''
