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[CITE: 42USC4851a]

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

    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.

(Pub. L. 102-550, title X, Sec. 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.
