Purposes

The purposes of this Act are as follows: (1) to develop a national strategy to build the infrastructure necessary to eliminate lead-based pipe and tap hazards in housing; (2) to reorient the national approach to the presence of lead-based pipe and taps in public and private homes to implement, on a priority basis, a program to evaluate and reduce lead-based pipe hazards in the Nation’s building stock; (3) to encourage effective action to prevent childhood lead poisoning by establishing a workable framework for lead-based pipe and tap hazard evaluation and reduction and by ending the current confusion over reasonable standards of care; (4) to ensure and implement the definitions of lead hazards in section 1417 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g–6) and ensure that the existence of lead-based pipe and taps hazards is taken into account in the development of Federal 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 pipe and tap 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 pipes and taps poisoning and steps to reduce and eliminate such hazards.