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1Available at 64 FR 50140. 

2 42 U.S.C. 4821 et seq. 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Overview of This Information 

Collection 

(1) Type of Information Collection 

Request: Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection. 

(2) Title of the Form/Collection: 

Biographic Information (for Deferred 

Action). 

(3) Agency form number, if any, and 

the applicable component of the DHS 

sponsoring the collection: G–325A; 

USCIS. 

(4) Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: Primary: Individuals or 

households. USCIS uses Form G–325A 

to collect biographic information from 

individuals requesting deferred action 

for certain military service members and 

their family members, or for nonmilitary deferred action (other than 

deferred action based on Deferred 

Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), 

Violence Against Women Act, A–3, G– 

5 nonimmigrants, and T and U 

nonimmigrant visas). 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: The estimated total number of 

respondents for the information 

collection G–325A is 7,500 and the 

estimated hour burden per response is 

2.39 hours. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: The total estimated annual 

hour burden associated with this 

collection is 17,925 hours. 

(7) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in cost) associated with the 

collection: The estimated total annual 

cost burden associated with this 

collection of information is $187,500. 

Dated: September 6, 2024. 

Samantha L. Deshommes, 

Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division, 

Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship 

and Immigration Services, Department of 

Homeland Security. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20557 Filed 9–10–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9111–97–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–6486–N–01] 

Modifying HUD’s Elevated Blood Lead 

Level Threshold for Children Under 

Age 6 Who are Living in Certain HUDAssisted Target Housing Covered by 

the Lead Safe Housing Rule; Notice for 

Comment 

AGENCY: Office of Lead Hazard Control 

and Healthy Homes, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice for comment. 

SUMMARY: This notice for comment 

seeks public input regarding HUD’s 

intention to revise the elevated blood 

lead level (EBLL) threshold in HUD’s 

requirements for assisted housing. HUD 

intends to revise its EBLL threshold to 

3.5 micrograms of lead per deciliter (mg/ 

dL) of blood for a child under the age 

of 6, consistent with the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 

current blood lead reference value 

(BLRV) of 3.5 (mg/dL) of blood for a 

child under the age of 6. The CDC uses 

its BLRV for encouraging actions such 

as environmental investigations of 

homes to identify potential sources of 

lead. When HUD last amended its EBLL 

threshold in 2017, CDC’s BLRV for 

children under the age of 6 was 5 mg/ 

dL, the level HUD uses as its current 

EBLL threshold. 

DATES: Comment Due Date: October 11, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments responsive 

to this notice for comment. There are 

two methods for submitting public 

comments. All submissions must refer 

to the above docket number and title. 

1. Electronic Submission of 

Comments. Comments may be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly 

encourages commenters to submit 

comments electronically. Electronic 

submission of comments allows the 

commenter maximum time to prepare 

and submit a comment, ensures timely 

receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to 

make comments immediately available 

to the public. Comments submitted 

electronically through 

www.regulations.gov can be viewed by 

other commenters and interested 

members of the public. Commenters 

should follow the instructions provided 

on that website to submit comments 

electronically. 

2. Submission of Comments by Mail. 

Comments may be submitted by mail to 

the Regulations Division, Office of 

General Counsel, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street SW, Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

Public Inspection of Public 

Comments. All properly submitted 

comments and communications will be 

available for public inspection and 

copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

eastern time weekdays at the above 

address. Due to security measures at the 

HUD Headquarters building, you must 

schedule an appointment in advance to 

review the public comments by calling 

the Regulations Division at 202–708– 

3055 (this is not a toll-free number). 

HUD welcomes and is prepared to 

receive calls from individuals who are 

deaf or hard of hearing, as well as 

individuals with speech or 

communication disabilities. To learn 

more about how to make an accessible 

telephone call, please visit https://

www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/ 

telecommunications-relay-service-trs. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Warren Friedman, Office of Lead Hazard 

Control and Healthy Homes, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 

8236, Washington, DC 20410–3000, 

telephone 202–402–7698 (this is not a 

toll-free number). HUD welcomes and is 

prepared to receive calls from 

individuals who are deaf or hard of 

hearing, as well as individuals with 

speech or communication disabilities. 

To learn more about how to make an 

accessible telephone call, please visit 

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/ 

telecommunications-relay-service-trs. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

A. HUD’s Lead Safe Housing Rule 

On September 15, 1999, HUD 

published a final rule entitled 

‘‘Requirements for Notification, 

Evaluation and Reduction of Lead-Based 

Paint Hazards in Federally Owned 

Residential Property and Housing 

Receiving Federal Assistance.’’ 1 HUD’s 

1999 final rule, including revisions 

made through subsequent rulemakings 

since the rule’s original publication in 

1999, is referred to throughout this 

notice for comment as the ‘‘Lead Safe 

Housing Rule.’’ The Lead Safe Housing 

Rule’s requirements are codified at 24 

CFR part 35. Its purpose is to implement 

the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning 

Prevention Act, as amended,2 and the 

Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard 


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3 42 U.S.C. 4851 et seq.; see also 24 CFR 

35.100(a). 

4 64 FR 50140 (Sept. 15, 1999). 

5Most housing built before 1978 is considered 

‘‘target housing,’’ which is the focus of the Lead 

Safe Housing Rule and other HUD and 

Environmental Protection Agency rules and 

programs on lead safety in housing. The Lead Safe 

Housing Rule defines ‘‘target housing,’’ in part, as 

‘‘any housing constructed prior to 1978, except 

housing for the elderly or persons with disabilities 

(unless a child of less than 6 years of age resides 

or is expected to reside in such housing for the 

elderly or persons with disabilities) or any zerobedroom dwelling.’’ 24 CFR 35.110, target housing. 

HUD is preparing to amend the definition of ‘‘target 

housing’’ in 24 CFR part 35 to reflect the slight 

expansion of the scope of the term by the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Pub. L. 

115–31, enacted May 5, 2017) to include the small 

number of pre-1978 zero-bedroom dwellings in 

which a child under age 6 resides or is expected 

to reside. See the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Spring 2024 Unified Agenda of 

Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, HUD 

Regulatory Identification Number 2501–AE03, 

https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

eAgendaViewRule?pubId=202404&RIN=2501-AE03. 

6See 24 CFR 35.110, designated party. 

7For additional information on required actions 

where a child has an EBLL, see 24 CFR 35.325 

(subpart D); 24 CFR 35.730; (subpart H), 24 CFR 

35.830 (subpart I); 24 CFR 35.1130 (subpart L); and 

24 CFR 35.1225 (subpart M). 

8 24 CFR 35.110 (Jan. 3, 2017). 

9See Requirements for Notification, Evaluation 

and Reduction of Lead-Based Paint Hazards in 

Federally Owned Residential Property and Housing 

Receiving Federal Assistance; Response to Elevated 

Blood Lead Levels, 82 FR 4151 (Jan. 13, 2017). 

10 24 CFR 35.110, elevated blood lead level. 

11 82 FR 4152, footnote 6 (Jan. 13, 2017). 

12The ACCLPP was formed under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. 1001, which 

provides a mechanism for experts and stakeholders 

to participate in the executive branch decisionmaking process. 13ACCLPP, Recommendations of the Advisory 

Committee for Childhood Lead Poisoning 

Prevention (ACCLPP) ‘‘Low Level Lead Exposure 

Harms Children: A Renewed Call of Primary 

Prevention’’ (Jan. 4, 2012), https://archive.cdc.gov/ 

#/details?url=https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/ 

advisory/acclpp.htm. 14CDC, CDC Response to Advisory Committee on 

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention (ACCLPP) 

Recommendations in ‘‘Low Level Lead Exposure 

Harms Children: A Renewed Call of Primary 

Prevention’’ (June 7, 2012), https://archive.cdc.gov/ 

#/details?url=https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/ 

advisory/acclpp.htm. 

15See CDC, Childhood Lead Poisoning 

Prevention, About the Data: Blood Lead 

Surveillance, Blood lead reference value (April 17, 

2024), https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/php/ 

data/blood-lead-surveillance.html#cdc_data_

description_what_the_data_includes-blood-leadreference-value. 

16See, e.g., Brown MJ and Falk H. Toolkit for 

Establishing Laws to Control the Use of Lead Paint. 

Module C.iii. Conducting blood lead prevalence 

studies, Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint, 

slide 8 (2017), https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ 

handle/20.500.11822/21470/Module%20Ciii%

20Blood%20Lead%20Prevalence%20Studies_

Final%20%20July%2017.pdf. 

17See, e.g., Tsoi M–F, Cheung C–L, Cheung TT, 

Cheung BMY, Continual Decrease in Blood Lead 

Continued 

Reduction Act of 1992 3 and 

specifically, ‘‘to ensure that housing 

receiving Federal assistance and 

federally owned housing that is to be 

sold does not pose lead-based paint 

hazards to young children.’’ 4

Under HUD’s Lead Safe Housing Rule, 

when a child under age 6 residing in 

certain housing built before 1978—i.e., 

‘‘target housing’’ 5—that is HUD-assisted 

is identified as having an elevated blood 

lead level, the ‘‘designated party’’—the 

property owner or other entity (e.g., 

Federal agency, State, local government, 

public housing agency, Indian Tribe, 

tribally designated housing entity, 

sponsor) responsible for complying with 

applicable requirements of the Lead 

Safe Housing Rule for that assistance 6— 

is required to undertake certain actions. 

These required actions are generally the 

same for each of the four applicable 

Lead Safe Housing Rule subparts in 24 

CFR part 35 regarding HUD assistance: 

• Subpart H, Project-Based 

Assistance, 

• Subpart I, HUD-Owned and 

Mortgagee-in-Possession Multifamily 

Property, 

• Subpart L, Public Housing 

Programs, and 

• Subpart M, Tenant-Based Rental 

Assistance. 

Additionally, there are slightly 

narrower requirements in subpart D, 

covering Project-Based Assistance 

Provided by a Federal Agency Other 

Than HUD, under which other agencies 

do not report on the case to HUD. 

During an environmental 

investigation, lead professionals (i.e., 

certified lead risk assessors working for 

a certified lead risk assessment firm on 

behalf of the designated party, or 

professionals from the local public 

health department) check the child’s 

environment for possible causes of lead 

exposure and recommend ways to 

prevent further lead exposure. If the 

environmental investigation identifies 

any lead-based paint hazards in the 

HUD-assisted housing unit of the child, 

the building’s other HUD-assisted units 

where a child under age 6 resides are 

also required to have a risk assessment 

conducted, and a designated party 

associated with the assistance must 

arrange for the hazards to be controlled 

in accordance with HUD and 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

requirements, as applicable, on a 

schedule specified in the Lead Safe 

Housing Rule.7

B. CDC’s Blood Level Reference Value 

and HUD’s Elevated Blood Lead Level 

Threshold 

Through mid-2017, HUD defined 

‘‘environmental intervention blood lead 

level’’ (EIBLL) as ‘‘a confirmed 

concentration of lead in whole blood 

equal to or greater than 20 ug/dL for a 

single test or 15–19 ug/dL in two tests 

taken at least 3 months apart.’’ 8 HUD 

used the EIBLL definition to specify 

when environmental intervention was 

required in HUD-assisted target housing. 

In 2017, HUD amended the Lead Safe 

Housing Rule principally to address 

HUD’s requirements relating to 

responding to elevated blood lead 

levels.9 Through the amendment, HUD 

replaced the EIBLL definition with a 

definition of ‘‘elevated blood lead level’’ 

in children under the age 6, in 

accordance with CDC guidance at the 

time.10 As noted in HUD’s 2017 rule: 

CDC’s ‘‘reference range value’’ [also called 

‘‘reference value’’] method for defining 

EBLLs is based on the blood lead level 

equaled or exceeded by 2.5 percent of U.S. 

children aged 1–5 years as determined by 

CDC’s most recent National Health and 

Nutritional Examination Survey. Currently 

[i.e., in 2017], CDC’s reference range value is 

5 mg/dL (5 micrograms of lead per deciliter 

of blood).11

CDC introduced its blood lead 

reference value method in 2012, based 

on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on 

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention 

(ACCLPP),12 recommending in January 

2012: 

that a reference value based on the 97.5th 

percentile of the [National Health and 

Nutrition Examination Survey] generated 

[blood lead level (BLL)] distribution in 

children 1–5 years old (currently 5 mg/dL) be 

used to identify children with elevated 

BLL.13

In its June 2012 response, CDC 

accepted the ACCLPP recommendations 

that the BLRV method be used and that 

the BLRV be set at 5 mg/dL for children 

under the age of 6, based on the two 

then-most recent National Health and 

Nutritional Examination Surveys from 

2009–2010 and 2011–2012.14

As the CDC explains, its BLRV helps 

to identify children with higher levels of 

lead in their blood compared to most 

children. The current BLRV is based on 

the 97.5th percentile of the blood lead 

values among U.S. children ages 1–5 

years from 2015–2016 and 2017–2018 

National Health and Nutrition 

Examination Survey (NHANES) cycles. 

Children with blood lead levels at or 

above the BLRV represent those at the 

top 2.5 percent with the highest blood 

lead levels. The CDC reanalyzes blood 

lead data approximately every four 

years using the most recent two 

NHANES cycles to determine whether it 

should update its BLRV.15

With the distribution of blood lead 

levels of children under age 6 

consistently dropping for decades,16

including in recent years,17 the fraction 


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Level in Americans: United States National Health 

Nutrition and Examination Survey 1999–2014 

(2016), American Journal of Medicine 

129(11):1213–1218, https://doi.org/10.1016/ 

j.amjmed.2016.05.042; Egan KB, Cornwell CR, 

Courtney JG, Ettinger AS, Blood Lead Levels in U.S. 

Children Ages 1–11 Years, 1976–2016 (2021), 

Environmental Health Perspectives 129(3):037003, 

https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP793. 

18See Jacobs DE, Clickner RP, Zhou JY, Viet SM, 

Marker DA, Rogers JW, Zeldin DC, Broene P, and 

Friedman W, The Prevalence of Lead-Based Paint 

Hazards in U.S. Housing (2002), Environmental 

Health Perspectives 110(10):A599–A606, https://

doi.org/10.1289/ehp.021100599; Dewalt FG, Cox 

DC, O’Haver R, Salatino B, Holmes D, Ashley PJ, 

Pinzer EA, Friedman W, Marker D, Viet SM, and 

Fraser A, Prevalence of Lead Hazards and Soil 

Arsenic in U.S. Housing (2015), Journal of 

Environmental Health 78(5):22–29, https://

www.neha.org/node/6429; HUD Office of Lead 

Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, American 

Healthy Homes Survey II Lead Findings (2021), 

www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/HH/documents/AHHS_II_

Lead_Findings_Report_Final_29oct21.pdf. 

19See, e.g., Cox, David and Gary Dewalt (2015), 

Lead Hazard Control Clearance Survey: Final 

Report. HUD, Office of Lead Hazard Control and 

Healthy Homes, https://www.hud.gov/sites/ 

documents/ClearanceSurvey_24Oct15.pdf. 

20See, e.g., Ahrens KA, Haley BA, Rossen LM, 

Lloyd PC, Aoki Y, Housing Assistance and Blood 

Lead Levels: Children in the United States, 2005– 

2012, American Journal of Public Health 

106(11):2049–2056 (Nov. 1, 2016), https://doi.org/ 

10.2105/AJPH.2016.303432. 

21For additional information on LEPAC, see CDC, 

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention, Lead 

Advisory Committees, https://www.cdc.gov/leadprevention/php/lead-advisory-committee/ 

index.html. 

22See CDC, Childhood Lead Poisoning 

Prevention, Agenda and Minutes of Lead Exposure 

and Prevention Advisory Committee Meeting, May 

14, 2021, https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/ 

php/lead-advisory-committee/meeting-5-14- 

2021.html. 

23See, e.g., https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/ 

about/index.html; https://www.cdc.gov/leadprevention/php/data/blood-lead-surveillance.html; 

https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/php/data/ 

index.html; https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/ 

hcp/clinical-guidance/index.html. 

24For additional information, see CDC, 

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention, About the 

Data: Blood Lead Surveillance, https://

www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/php/data/blood-leadsurveillance.html. 

25For additional information, see CDC, 

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention, 

Recommended Actions Based on Blood Lead Level, 

https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/hcp/clinicalguidance/index.html. 

26See 82 FR 4151 (Jan. 13, 2017). 27 24 CFR 35.110, elevated blood lead level. 

of children with blood lead levels at or 

above 5 mg/dL has decreased. Based on 

HUD’s survey research 18 and lead 

hazard reduction grant data analysis 

research,19 it is clear that assisted 

housing has distributions of dust-lead 

levels well below the national 

distribution of dust-lead levels both 

during routine occupancy and after lead 

hazard reduction activities. HUD’s 

survey research also indicates that HUDassisted housing has a lower prevalence 

of lead-based paint hazards than 

unassisted housing. Consistent with 

those findings, HUD–CDC data analysis 

research indicates that the distribution 

of blood lead levels in children under 

age 6 residing in HUD-assisted housing 

is significantly lower than the 

distribution of blood lead levels in 

socio-demographically matched 

children in unassisted housing.20

On May 14, 2021, the Department of 

Health and Human Services’ Lead 

Exposure and Prevention Advisory 

Committee (LEPAC) 21 voted to 

recommend that CDC update its BLRV 

for children under the age of 6 from 5 

mg/dL to 3.5 mg/dL based on CDC data 

from the 2015–2016 and 2017–2018 

NHANES cycles.22 CDC accepted 

LEPAC’s recommendation and 

publicized its implementation by 

creating and updating several web pages 

on its website.23

C. HUD’s Intention To Revise Its EBLL 

Threshold for Children Under the Age of 

6 

HUD intends to revise its EBLL 

threshold to 3.5 mg/dL of blood for a 

child under age 6, consistent with CDC’s 

current BLRV of 3.5 mg/dL of blood for 

a child under age 6.24 HUD’s intended 

revision to its EBLL threshold would 

encourage healthcare providers and 

public health professionals to use the 

CDC-recommended follow-up actions 

that include arranging for an 

environmental investigation of the home 

to identify potential sources of lead.25

The revision would require the 

environmental investigation by the 

designated party (unless the public 

health department has evaluated the 

home in regard to the child’s EBLL case) 

when the child resides in certain HUDassisted target housing covered by the 

Lead Safe Housing Rule. 

When HUD’s Lead Safe Housing Rule 

was last amended in 2017,26 CDC 

guidance was to use 5 mg/dL as the 

BLRV threshold for children under the 

age of 6 when recommending an 

environmental investigation. HUD has 

used that level as the EBLL threshold for 

the Lead Safe Housing Rule since 2017. 

Given that CDC has now revised its 

BLRV to 3.5 mg/dL for children under 

the age of 6, HUD believes that it is 

appropriate to revise its EBLL threshold 

to be consistent with CDC’s BLRV. 

Conforming HUD’s EBLL threshold 

for children under 6 to CDC’s current 

BLRV would result in more 

environmental investigations of pre1978 assisted housing units and more 

lead hazard control work being 

performed in those units than at 

present. The number of environmental 

investigations and lead hazard control 

activities would be comparable to the 

number at the time the EBLL was set in 

2017, because the CDC guidance 

criterion for setting the BLRV—the 

blood lead level at or above which are 

the highest 2.5 percent of the national 

population of children under age 6 

(formally, ages 1 to 5)—is the same. 

Because HUD already has overall safety 

and LSHR monitoring and response 

programs, the percentage of children 

under age 6 with EBLLs in HUD-assisted 

housing is expected to remain lower 

than that national 2.5 percentage. 

II. This Notice for Comment 

Through this notice for comment, 

HUD is giving notice of, and 

opportunity for public comment on, as 

required by 24 CFR part 35,27 HUD’s 

intention to revise its elevated blood 

lead level threshold to 3.5 mg/dL of 

blood for a child under age 6. 

HUD requests public input regarding 

HUD’s intention to make the described 

update to its EBLL threshold under 

HUD’s Lead Safe Housing Rule. HUD 

seeks public comment on whether HUD 

should adopt the CDC’s 3.5 mg/dL BLRV 

to replace the EBLL 5 mg/dL threshold 

for children under the age of 6 currently 

used in HUD’s Lead Safe Housing Rule. 

This adoption of a lower EBLL 

threshold would result in the percentage 

of HUD assisted pre-1978 housing units 

prompting environmental investigations 

to return to approximately the same 

percentage as in 2017. 

III. Specific Information Requested 

While HUD welcomes all comments 

relevant to HUD’s intention to update 

the Lead Safe Housing Rule’s EBLL 

threshold from 5 to 3.5 mg/dL of blood 

for a child under 6, consistent with 

CDC’s recommendation, HUD is 

particularly interested in receiving 

input on the questions listed below. To 

assist commenters, HUD provides the 

following guidance and list of specific 

information requested. 

• Please indicate in your written 

comments the area of interest and the 

topic number(s) below you are 

commenting on and provide specific 

information to illustrate your comments 

where possible. 

• You do not need to address every 

topic and should focus on those where 

you have relevant expertise, experience, 

or data. 

• To the extent possible, please cite 

any public data, peer-reviewed journal 

articles, and other publicly accessible 

information related to the topic or that 

supports your responses. 

• If information or data is available, 

but is non-public, describe the 


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information or data to the extent 

permissible, noting that it is non-public. 

Because any responses received by 

HUD will be publicly available, 

responses should not include any 

personally identifiable information 

(other than identifying the submitter, 

unless the submitter wishes to submit 

anonymously, or identifying authors or 

editors of publicly available 

information) or confidential commercial 

information. 

HUD thanks commenters in advance 

for their information and comments that 

will assist the Department in evaluating 

its current EBLL threshold and the 

appropriateness of HUD’s intention to 

revise its EBLL threshold. 

1. Considerations for Revising the Lead 

Safe Housing Rule’s Elevated Blood 

Lead Level Threshold 

a. Reasoning in this notice. Is the 

reasoning discussed throughout this 

notice for comment appropriate for 

determining to decrease the Lead Safe 

Housing Rule’s EBLL threshold from 5 

to 3.5 mg/dL of blood for children under 

6? Is the justification reasonable and 

balanced? 

b. Other considerations. Are there 

other considerations for determining the 

appropriate EBLL, and, if so, what are 

those considerations and how should 

they be addressed? 

2. Compliance Period Following a 

Revision to the Lead Safe Housing Rules 

Elevated Blood Lead Level Threshold 

If HUD revises its EBLL threshold 

under the Lead Safe Housing Rule by 

decreasing it to CDC’s current BLRV, 

should HUD set a 6-month compliance 

period for requiring environmental 

interventions at the decreased EBLL 

threshold, as HUD did when it last 

decreased its Lead Safe Housing Rule 

blood lead level threshold in 2017, or 

should HUD set some other compliance 

period? 

HUD recognizes that its clients 

conducting ongoing program activities 

in pre-1978 housing covered by the 

Lead Safe Housing Rule would need 

time to incorporate any revised EBLL 

threshold level requirements related to 

responding to cases of children with 

EBLLs into their programs. As a result, 

HUD is considering setting a 

compliance date of 6 months after any 

revision to the EBLL threshold for 

requiring environmental intervention 

and related activities. Setting a delayed 

compliance period of 6 months would 

be intended to allow all covered 

parties—lead-based paint professionals, 

housing agencies, State, Tribal, and 

local government agencies, public and 

private residential property owners, 

residential property management firms, 

and others—time to prepare for proper 

implementation of any revised 

requirements. HUD shares the public 

health concern that further delaying 

required compliance with a revised 

EBLL threshold may expose children 

under age 6 to higher lead levels for a 

longer period of time; however, HUD 

believes that setting a shorter 

compliance date, such as a 30-day 

compliance date, may be impractical 

because the organizational 

infrastructure necessary to implement a 

revised EBLL threshold will take time to 

put in place. 

Matthew Ammon, 

Director, Office of Lead Hazard Control and 

Healthy Homes. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20532 Filed 9–10–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7084–N–05] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Record of Employee 

Interview; OMB Control No.: 2501–0009 

AGENCY: Office of Field Policy and 

Management, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for the information collection 

described below. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is 

requesting comment from all interested 

parties on the proposed collection of 

information. The purpose of this notice 

is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: November 

12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection can be sent 

within 60 days of publication of this 

notice to www.regulations.gov. 

Interested persons are also invited to 

submit comments regarding this 

proposal and comments should refer to 

the proposal by name and/or OMB 

Control Number and should be sent to: 

Nathan A. Roush, Program Analyst, 

Office of Field Policy and Management, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 75 Ted Turner Dr. SW, 

Atlanta, GA 30303 or the number (678) 

732–2250 this is not a toll-free number 

or email at Nathan.A.Roush@hud.gov 

for a copy of the proposed forms or 

other available information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Colette Pollards, Reports Management 

Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Washington, DC 20410, telephone 

(202) 402–3400 (this is not a toll-free 

number) or email: Colette.Pollard@

hud.gov for copies of the proposed 

forms and other available information. 

HUD welcomes and is prepared to 

receive calls at the phone numbers 

above from individuals who are deaf or 

hard of hearing, as well as individuals 

with speech or communication 

disabilities. To learn more about how to 

make an accessible telephone call, 

please visit https://www.fcc.gov/ 

consumers/guides/telecommunicationsrelay-service-trs. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department is submitting the proposed 

information collection to OMB for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35, as amended). 

This Notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

agencies concerning the proposed 

collection of information to: (1) Evaluate 

whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) Evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (3) Enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (4) Minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond; including 

the use of appropriate automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

This Notice also lists the following 

information: 

Title of Information Collection: 

Record of Employee Interview. 

OMB Control Number, if applicable: 

2501–0009. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: 

All Federal agencies administering 

programs subject to Davis-Bacon wage 

provisions are required to enforce 

Federal Wage and reporting provisions 

in accordance with Department of Labor 

(DOL) regulations (29 CFR part 5, 

section 5.6 paragraphs (1)(2) and (a)(3), 

respectively). 

HUD, State, and local agencies 

administering HUD-assisted programs 

must enforce Federal Wage and 

reporting requirements on covered 

HUD-assisted construction and 

maintenance work. Enforcement 

activities include conducting interviews 


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