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EPA makes a mess with lead-based paint

 
By Richard Mize | Published: March 20, 2010    Comment on this article Leave a comment

There’s a rush on to get remodelers and other contractors who work in older homes qualified to keep working after new regulations surrounding lead-based paint hit the books — and homeowners’ pocketbooks — in a few weeks.

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How successful the push is might not be known until April 22 — the day the Environmental Protection Agency starts requiring contractors to be trained and certified under its Lead Paint: Renovation, Repair and Painting rule.

Classes organized by the Oklahoma State Home Builders Association were packed.

The EPA will require remodelers, carpenters, plumbers, heating and air-conditioning workers, window installers and others to be trained and qualified, or it will be illegal for them to work in houses built before 1978, when lead-based paint was banned.

Contractors have been stunned by the requirements, the detailed eight-hour course and the criteria that will have to be followed, said Bret Green, vice president of sales and marketing for The Womble Co., distributor of Pella windows and doors.

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