Description: Better housing, better health: We’re asking Congress to make a $19 billion investment toward a healthier America by including in lead poisoning prevention and healthy homes activities in its infrastructure plan.
Last week, in an ongoing effort to protect our nation’s children from preventable lead exposure, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed changing the dust lead hazard standard (DLHS) and dust lead clearance level (DLCL) for lead dust on floors, windowsills, and window troughs. These changes would define any reportable level of lead dust as a hazard and significantly lower the amount of lead dust allowed after remediation efforts. Per EPA’s July 12, 2023, press release:
Today’s proposal would reduce the DLHS from 10 micrograms per square foot (µg/ft2) for floors and 100 µg/ft2 for window sills to any reportable level greater than zero in recognition of the fact that there is no level of lead in dust that has been found to be safe for children. Today’s proposal would lower the DLCL from 10 µg/ft 2 to 3 µg/ft 2 for floors, from 100 µg/ft 2 to 20 µg/ft 2 for window sills, and from 400 µg/ft 2 to 25 µg/ft 2 for window troughs, which are the lowest post-abatement dust-lead leve
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