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 PUBLIC LAW 102-550—OCT. 28, 1992 106 STAT. 3897 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE OF REGULATIONS.— Section 269(a)(2) of the Truth in Savings Act (12 U.S.C. 4308(a)(2)) is amended by striking "6 months" and inserting "9 months'*. TITLE X—RESroENTIAL LEAD-BASED PAINT HAZARD REDUCTION ACT OF 1992 Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992. SEC. 1001. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the "Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992". SEC. 1002. FINDINGS. The Congress finds that— (1) low-level lead poisoning is widespread among American children, afflicting as many as 3,000,000 children under age 6, with minority and low-income communities disproportionately affected; (2) at low levels, lead poisoning in children causes intelligence quotient deficiencies, reading and learning disabilities, impaired hearing, reduced attention span, hyperactivity, and benavior problems; (3) pre-1980 American housing stock contains more than 3,000,000 tons of lead in the form of lead-based paint, with the vast majority of homes built before 1950 containing substantial amounts of lead-based paint; (4) the ingestion of household dust containing lead from deteriorating or abraded lead-based paint is the most common cause of lead poisoning in children; (5) the health and development of children living in as many as 3,800,000 American homes is endangered by chipping or peeling lead paint, or excessive amounts of lead-contaminated dust in their homes; (6) the danger posed by lead-based psdnt hazards can be reduced by abating lead-based paint or by taking interim measures to prevent paint deterioration and limit children's exposure to lead dust and chips; (7) despite the enactment of laws in the early 1970's requiring the Federal Government to eliminate as far as practicable lead-based paint hazards in federally owned, assisted, and insured housing, the Federcd response to this national crisis remains severelv limited; and (8) the Federal Government must take a leadership role in building the infrastructure—^including an informed public. State and local delivery systems, certifi^ inspectors, contractors, and laboratories, trained workers, and available financing and insurance—necessary to ensure that the national goal of eliminating lead-based paint hazards in housing can be achieved as expeditiously as possible. SEC. 1003. PURPOSES. The purposes of this Act are— (1) to develop a national strategy to build the infrastructure necessary to eliminate lead-based paint hazards in all housing as expeditiously as possible; 42 USC 4851 note. 42 USC 4851. 42 USC 4851a.

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