RRP Lead-Based Paint

Lead-contaminated paint dust is a major source of childhood lead exposure. Lead paint dust can come from deteriorating lead-based paint, and from lead contaminated soil.  Common renovation activities like sanding, cutting, and demolition can create hazardous lead dust.  The Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program (RRP) Rule is a set of regulations that aims to minimize exposure from lead-based paint dust during renovation, repair, or painting activities. 

The rule is designed to reduce lead contamination by requiring renovators to be trained in the use of lead safe work practices, renovators and firms to be certified, providers of renovation training to be accredited, and that renovators follow specific work practice standards.  

Renovation includes activities such as removing, modifying or repairing painted surfaces or painted components (such as modifying painted doors, surface restoration, window repair, and surface preparation activities like sanding and scraping, or other such activities that may generate paint dust), removing building components (such as walls, ceilings, plumbing, or windows), weatherization projects (such as cutting holes in painted surfaces to install blown-in insulation or to gain access to attics, or planing thresholds to install weather-stripping), and interim controls that disturb painted surfaces.  The term renovation does not include minor repair and maintenance activities (activities that disturb less than six square feet of painted surfaces on the interior of a building or more than 20 square feet on the exterior of the building).  A renovation performed to convert a building, or part of a building, into target housing or a child-occupied facility is a renovation.  Temporarily unoccupied or vacant buildings are not exempt from the requirements.