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US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Lead Hazard Control

Dolline Hatchett
Community Outreach Officer
451 7th St. SW
Washington, DC 20410
Phone: (202) 755-1785
Fax: (202) 755-1000
URL: http://www.hud.gov/lea/leahome .html

Mission Statement

 
In December 1991, under Congressional authority, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) created the Office of Lead Hazard Control with the goal of eliminating childhood lead poisoning caused by exposure to lead-based paint hazards in the nation's housing stock. Although lead-based paint can be a hazard in any home, it poses the greatest threat in older housing that is in poor condition or is being renovated. The Office works to ensure that hazard controls are conducted in the safest, most cost-effective and efficient way possible to preserve our nation's stock of affordable housing while still ensuring that our children are properly protected.

  • Geographic focus: National
  • No membership
  • Other organizational activities (not directed specifically toward children): regulation

    • Children's Environmental Health Activities

    		 
    The Office conducts a variety of activities to target those older, low-income housing units most likely to poison children. The Office operates the HUD Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program for state and local governments to develop and implement cost-effective methods for the control and detection of lead-based hazards in private owner-occupied and rental housing for low-income families. The Office develops lead-based paint regulations, guidelines and policies that ensure that buyers and tenants of housing have the information they need to protect their children from lead-based paint hazards. The Office also develops policies regarding lead-based paint hazards in federally assisted and federally owned housing.

    Please note: the information presented above was provided and reviewed for accuracy by US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Lead Hazard Control and was not verified independently by the Children's Environmental Health Network.
    Publication date: 5/5/99
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