The EPA next year expects to propose updated standards for determining if there’s still too much lead dust after lead paint has been removed, an agency official said Sept. 5.
The agency will propose new lead dust clearance levels by July 2020, with the goal of issuing final standards by July 2021, said Tanya Mottley, director of the EPA’s National Program Chemicals Division.
The updated standards would address a disconnect that arose earlier this year, when the Environmental Protection Agency issued a rule (RIN: 2070-AJ82) that cut the threshold of lead in dust that’s considered hazardous. The agency ...
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