**U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT**

Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control

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**Special Attention of**:

**HUB/PC Directors for Housing Notice: OHHLHC-01-06**

**All Secretary's Representatives Issued: October 23, 2001**

**All State Coordinators Expires: September 16, 2002**

**[Cross Reference:]{.underline}**

65 Federal Register 54858,

September 11, 2000

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**SUBJECT:** Lead Safe Housing: Notice of Extension of Date Certain
Owners of Pre-1960 Housing Receiving Project-Based Section 8 Assistance
Must Complete Risk Assessments

**PURPOSE:** This notice implements an extension of the date by which
certain owners of housing constructed before 1960 receiving
project-based section 8 assistance must complete risk assessments under
the Lead-Safe Housing Regulation.

**BACKGROUND:** On September 15, 1999 (64 FR 50140), HUD published a new
regulation amending 24 CFR Part 35 to streamline, modernize and
consolidate all lead-based paint requirements in federally-assisted
housing and housing being sold by the federal government to ensure that
children are adequately protected from lead poisoning. The effective
date of the regulation was September 15, 2000, one year later, to enable
those covered by the regulation to prepare for its implementation. On
September 11, 2000 at 65 FR 54858 (just before the effective date), HUD
published a Transition Assistance Policy to aid in the transition to the
new regulation.

The Department's Transition Assistance Policy included a commitment by
HUD to pay for lead-based paint inspections and risk assessments in
project-based Section 8 housing. HUD developed this program to enable
owners of housing receiving project-based Section 8 assistance to
determine whether or not their units are free of lead paint and where
any lead-based paint hazards exist, if any. (See HUD\'s September 11,
2000 Notice of Transition Assistance and the related Transition Strategy
to Implement HUD's Lead Safe Housing Regulation; both are posted at
[www.hud.gov/lea/leadnotice.doc](http://www.hud.gov/lea/leadnotice.doc).)
HUD's Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) has contracted for these
inspections and assessments. HUD has sent previous notices to all
project-based housing owners inviting them to participate in this free
inspection service.

**EXTENSION:** HUD is extending the date by which certain owners of
housing constructed before 1960 receiving more than \$5,000 per unit
annually in project-based section 8 assistance must complete risk
assessments under HUD's Lead Safe Housing Rule. For these owners, this
Notice is extending the date for completing risk assessments from
September 17, 2001 (24 CFR 35.715(a)(1)) until March 31, 2002.

This extension is applicable only to those owners who have enrolled in
HUD's lead-based paint evaluation program through REAC as of November
30, 2001. (See below for procedures for enrollment.) Owners who have
enrolled in the program have demonstrated cooperation and a desire to
comply with the regulation.

For those owners who have chosen not to enroll in the free inspection
program, HUD is extending the date by which risk assessments must be
completed to November 30, 2001.

This extension does not apply to the treatment of any lead-based paint
hazards identified, and does not change the applicable schedules in the
regulation by which the owner must treat those hazards, incorporate
ongoing lead-based paint maintenance and reevaluation into regular
building operations, and respond to a child under 6 years old with an
environmental intervention blood lead level residing in a project-based
assisted unit. It also does not apply to section 8 project-based
assisted housing constructed between 1960 and 1977, which is required to
undergo a risk assessment by September 15, 2003, nor to housing
constructed after 1977, to which the Rule does not apply. Finally, the
extension does not apply to owners who receive \$5,000 or less per unit
per year in federal assistance, nor to owners receiving project-based
assistance for single family housing, because the requirement for these
types of housing is not a risk assessment and interim controls, but
visual assessment and paint stabilization.

**ENROLLMENT PROCEDURE:** Owners and management agents for project-based
section 8 properties desiring to participate in HUD\'s no-cost
lead-based paint evaluation program must submit, no later than November
30, 2001, their name, telephone number, owner\'s name, and, for each
property they wish to enroll, the property name, property address, and
Real Estate Management System (REMS) identification number, to the HUD
Real Estate Assessment Center\'s Technical Service Support Center, by
toll-free phone call to 1-877-406-9220; or by e-mail to
REAC_RECONS@hud.gov; or by mail or delivery service to The Real Estate
Assessment Center, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1280
Maryland Avenue, SW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20024-2135, ATTENTION:
Lead Based Paint. The date of receipt of the submission by the Real
Estate Assessment Center to participate shall constitute the date of
enrollment in the program.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:** Warren Friedman, Director of the
Planning and Standards Division, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard
Control; telephone (202) 755-1785, ext. 104 (this is not a toll-free
number); E-mail: lead_regulations@hud.gov.

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> David E. Jacobs, Ph.D.
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> Director, Office of Healthy Homes
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> and Lead Hazard Control