[MassHistPres] FW: Follow-up to EPA RRP Meetings

Mon Mar 29 16:40:28 EDT 2010

This is a response to Ellen Lipsey's posting, but focused on New
Hampshire.  I hope that the attachments will tag along with the message,
because I don't have alternates sources for them yet.

Linda Wilson

-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson, Linda 
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 4:33 PM
Subject: FW: Follow-up to EPA RRP Meetings

This is a February 2010 e-mailed message from the NH Childhood Lead
Poisoning Prevention Program (CLPPP) about the new EPA "Renovation,
Repair and Painting" regulations that will go into effect on April 22,
2010.  The NH CLPPP has been much more proactive about the new
regulations and their impact than any other source of information that I
have been able to find.   If you were at the NH Preservation Alliance
"Old House & Barn Expo" in Manchester on March 20-21, perhaps you had a
chance to visit the CLPPP/Alliance for Healthy Homes booth, or to hear a
presentation about the new EPA rules.

We'll all be learning a lot about the new regulations in the next few
months.  Be sure to bookmark the CLPPP web site --
http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/DHHS/CLPPP/default.htm -- and the EPA lead
site at http://www.epa.gov/lead/.

Linda Ray Wilson, DSHPO
NH Division of Historical Resources
19 Pillsbury Street
Concord NH 03301-3570
T 603-271-6434
F 603-271-3433
linda.wilson at dcr.nh.gov
http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr

The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources (NHDHR) was
established in 1974 as the "State Historic Preservation Office (SHP0).
The historical, archaeological, architectural and cultural resources of
New Hampshire are among its most important environmental assets.
Historic preservation promotes the use, understanding and conservation
of such resources for the education, inspiration, pleasure and
enrichment of New Hampshire's citizens. [RSA 227-C:1-a] --
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XIX/227-C/227-C-1-a.htm.  For
more information, visit us online at http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr
or by calling 603-271-3483. The DHR trifold brochure is now online, free
of charge, at the DHR's "About Us" web page. Download it --
http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/documents/dhr_brochure.pdf --  for distribution
-- or save paper and historic places by sharing the web link widely.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Beverly.Drouin at dhhs.state.nh.us
[mailto:Beverly.Drouin at dhhs.state.nh.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:07 PM
Subject: Follow-up to EPA RRP Meetings

Good Afternoon:

For those of you who were not able to participate in the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) planning
meetings held last week in Manchester, Franklin, and Newport, I would
like
to provide you with a brief update.  Over 50 stakeholders attended
representing building and health inspectors, property owners, attorneys,
training consultants, abatement contractors, local health departments,
housing authorities, community action programs, builders, state
department
personnel, and several non-profit agencies.  Jane Malone from the
Alliance
for Healthy Homes facilitated the meetings and provided much needed
information on how the rule will impact stakeholders throughout New
Hampshire.

In summary, the federal law will require, by April 22, 2010, that any
contractor breaking a painted surface in a pre-1978 home or
child-occupied
facility register as a "Certified Renovation Firm" with the EPA at a
cost
of $300.00.  In addition, each firm must have a "Certified Renovator" on
staff.  All individuals seeking to become a "Certified Renovator" must
complete an EPA RRP training course.  EPA-certified training providers
can
be conveniently found on the EPA website at:

http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/trainingproviders.htm

Concern was expressed at the meetings at the daunting task of reaching
and
educating the estimated 15,000 New Hampshire firms and individuals
affected
by the RRP Rule.  In the coming weeks and months, the CLPPP will look to
each of you to assist in reaching these firms and individuals through
newspapers, radio, local town governments, building trade organizations,
public health and building inspectors, and more.  Stakeholders agreed
that
it is critical that this education and outreach be pushed from the
bottom
up with each of us doing what we can to reach and educate our friends
and
neighbors as fines for violating the EPA RRP rule can be up to $37,500
per
incident.

Now that the CLPPP has started a two-way dialog with our stakeholders on
the pros and cons of running the RRP program at the State level, the
Alliance for Healthy Homes will be completing a feasibility and cost
analysis study.  We anticipate that this study will be completed on or
around June 2010.

To begin the outreach and education efforts, four documents are attached
to
this email.  The RRP flyer in English & Spanish, a model press release,
and
the Alliance for Healthy Homes' Frequently Asked Questions are for your
use
and for statewide distribution.

Do not hesitate to contact us at 1-800-897-5323 (LEAD) with any
questions,
or requests for additional materials.  Thank you!

(See attached file: RRP Press release.doc)(See attached file: RRP
Program
Fact Sheet.doc)(See attached file: RRP Flyer - spanish.pdf)(See attached
file: RRP Flyer - English.pdf)

Beverly Baer Drouin
Health Promotion Advisor
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (CLPPP)
29 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03301-6504
603.271.8128 Phone
603.271. 3991 Fax
beverly.drouin at dhhs.state.nh.us

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