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1 64 FR 50140. 

2See 24 CFR part 35, subparts B through R. 

3 42 U.S.C. 4821 et seq. 

4 42 U.S.C. 4851 et seq.; see also 24 CFR 

35.100(a). 

5 64 FR 50140, 50199 (Sept. 15, 1999). 

6Most housing built before 1978 is considered 

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

Safe Housing Rule and other HUD and EPA 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, Fall 2024 Unified Agenda of 

Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, HUD 

Regulatory Identification Number 2501–AE03, 

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

eAgendaViewRule?pubId=202410&RIN=2501-AE03. 

7See 24 CFR 35.110, designated party. 

C. Authority 

Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

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

chapter 35. 

Anna Guido, 

Clearance Officer, Office of Policy 

Development and Research. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development 

[Docket No. FR–6486–N–02] 

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 

AGENCY: Office of Lead Hazard Control 

and Healthy Homes, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development 

(HUD). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces HUD’s 

modifying its elevated blood lead level 

(EBLL) threshold under its Lead Safe 

Housing Rule from to 5 to 3.5 

micrograms of lead per deciliter of 

blood (mg/dL) for a child under the age 

of 6, consistent with the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention’s 

current blood lead reference value of 3.5 

mg/dL. This notice also describes the 

required compliance dates for 

implementing this modification, which 

depend on whether the applicable State, 

State-level jurisdiction, territory, or 

local jurisdiction has already 

incorporated a blood lead level action 

threshold equal to or lower than the 

CDC’s current blood lead reference 

value. 

DATES: The provisions of this notice 

relating to HUD’s revision to its EBLL 

take effect on January 17, 2025. 

Compliance Dates: Compliance with 

the provisions of this notice relating to 

HUD’s revision to its EBLL threshold is 

required as described in this notice at 

section V, ‘‘Compliance dates for change 

to the EBLL threshold.’’ 

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), and email 

LeadRegulations@HUD.gov. HUD 

invites that any further comments on 

this notice be sent to HUD using the 

contact information provided in this 

section. 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: 

Table of Contents 

I. Background and HUD’s Lead Safe Housing 

Rule 

II. EBLL Notice for Comment 

III. Public Comments 

Reasoning and Justification for the EBLL 

Threshold Change 

Compliance Period for the EBLL Threshold 

Change 

Training, Technical Assistance, and 

Support 

Monitoring and Enforcement 

Funding 

Environmental Investigations and Lead 

Hazard Control Workforce 

IV. Change to the EBLL Threshold 

V. Compliance Dates for Change to the EBLL 

Threshold 

HUD-Assisted Target Housing in States, 

State-Level Jurisdictions, Territories, and 

Local Jurisdictions With a Blood Lead 

Level Action Threshold Equal to or 

Lower Than the CDC’s Current BLRV 

HUD-Assisted Target Housing in States, 

State-Level Jurisdictions, Territories, and 

Local Jurisdictions With a Blood Lead 

Level Action Threshold Greater Than the 

CDC’s Current BLRV or That Do Not 

Have Such a Threshold 

Abbreviations 

BLRV: blood lead reference value 

CDC: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

EBLL: elevated blood lead level 

EPA: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

HHS: U.S. Department of Health and Human 

Services 

HUD: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban 

Development 

OLHCHH: Office of Lead Hazard Control and 

Healthy Homes 

mg/dL: micrograms of lead per deciliter of 

blood 

I. Background and 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 

September 15, 1999 final rule, including 

revisions made through subsequent 

rulemakings since the rule’s original 

publication, is referred to throughout 

this notice as the ‘‘Lead Safe Housing 

Rule.’’ 2 The Lead Safe Housing Rule’s 

purpose is to implement the Lead-Based 

Paint Poisoning Prevention Act, as 

amended,3 and the Residential LeadBased Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 

1992,4 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.’’ 5

Under the Lead Safe Housing Rule, 

when a child under age 6 residing in 

certain housing built before 1978—i.e., 

‘‘target housing’’ 6—that is HUD-assisted 

is identified as having an EBLL, 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 7—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, subpart D, which covers 

project-based assistance provided by a 

Federal agency other than HUD, has 

slightly narrower requirements. Under 

subpart D, other Federal agencies are 

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8For 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). 

9 Id. 

10 89 FR 73702. 

11CDC. CDC response to Advisory Committee on 

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention 

recommendations in ‘‘Low Level Lead Exposure 

Harms Children: A Renewed Call of Primary 

Prevention. June 7, 2012. https://stacks.cdc.gov/ 

view/cdc/37586. See, also, Advisory Committee on 

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention. Low Level 

Lead Exposure Harms Children: A Renewed Call for 

Primary Prevention. January 4, 2012. https://

stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11859. 

12https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/php/ 

data/blood-lead-surveillance.html. 

13The public comments submitted in response to 

the EBLL Notice for Comment can be viewed at 

Regulations.gov, docket number HUD–2024–0069. 

14See https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/ 

prevention/index.html. 

15Through the childhood lead poisoning 

prevention program’s cooperative agreements, 

‘‘CDC supports state and local health departments, 

or their bona fide agents, through cooperative 

agreements to support childhood lead poisoning 

prevention. Prevention efforts include 

strengthening: blood lead testing and reporting, 

surveillance, linking children to recommended 

follow-up services, and targeted population-based 

interventions.’’ See https://www.cdc.gov/leadprevention/success-stories-by-state/index.html. 

16The State-level grantees are made up of nearly 

all States, the District of Columbia, and the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 

17https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/hcp/ 

clinical-guidance/index.html. 

18Personal communication. P. Ruckart, CDC 

Division of Environmental Health and Science 

Practice. 

children under age 6 being identified 

with an EBLL to HUD. 

During an environmental 

investigation, certified lead risk 

assessors 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, 

a designated party associated with the 

assistance must arrange for the hazards 

to be controlled in accordance with 

HUD and EPA requirements, as 

applicable, on a schedule specified in 

the Lead Safe Housing Rule.8 If any of 

the building’s other HUD-assisted target 

housing units have a child under age 6 

residing in the housing, those units and 

common areas servicing those units are 

also required to have a risk assessment 

conducted. Where a risk assessment is 

conducted, a designated party 

associated with the assistance must 

arrange for any lead-based paint hazards 

in those units or common areas to be 

controlled in accordance with HUD and 

EPA requirements, as applicable, on a 

schedule specified in the Lead Safe 

Housing Rule.9

II. EBLL Notice for Comment 

On September 11, 2024, HUD 

published a notice for comment in the 

Federal Register (the EBLL Notice for 

Comment) that provided background on 

HUD’s requirements for responding to 

an EBLL in children under the age of 6 

since 2017 and HUD’s process in 

considering CDC’s recommendations 

regarding an EBLL in children under the 

age of 6.10 In the EBLL Notice for 

Comment, HUD explained its intention 

to revise its EBLL threshold to 3.5 mg/ 

dL for a child under age 6 and invited 

public comment regarding HUD’s 

intended revision to its EBLL threshold 

for a child under age 6. For additional 

background, see the EBLL Notice for 

Comment. 

III. Public Comments 

As described in the EBLL Notice for 

Comment, HUD explained its intention 

to decrease its EBLL threshold from its 

current level of 5 mg/dL for a child 

under age 6 11 to 3.5 mg/dL, consistent 

with CDC’s current BLRV of 3.5 mg/dL 

for a child under age 6.12 In the EBLL 

Notice for Comment, HUD requested 

public input regarding HUD’s intention 

to make the described update to its 

EBLL threshold for the Lead Safe 

Housing Rule. In addition to welcoming 

all public input in response to the EBLL 

Notice for Comment, HUD also 

specifically requested input on certain 

topics. These specific requests for input 

related to HUD’s reasoning for the EBLL 

threshold revision, including the 

described justification and whether 

there were other considerations and 

how HUD should address other 

considerations relating to revising the 

EBLL threshold. In addition, HUD also 

specifically requested input regarding 

the compliance period for the revision 

of the EBLL threshold and potential 

impacts to ongoing program activities 

because of the revision. 

HUD received 25 public comments in 

response to the EBLL Notice for 

Comment.13 All of the commenters 

supported the revision of the EBLL 

threshold to a level lower than the 

current level. A summary of the public 

comments received in response to the 

EBLL Notice for Comment is provided 

in the text that follows. 

Reasoning and Justification for the EBLL 

Threshold Change 

A majority of commenters agreed that 

HUD’s modification of the EBLL 

threshold would be reasonable and 

justified. Many commenters noted that 

they work in the healthcare field, while 

many other commenters work in 

environmental health advocacy, the 

legal profession, education, and rental 

housing management fields. Reasons 

that commenters provided for 

supporting the decrease of HUD’s EBLL 

threshold included the need to protect 

children, with some commenters noting 

that primary prevention is critical and 

that there are geographic, 

socioeconomic, and racial/ethnic 

disparities in lead exposure. Several 

commenters noted that they felt there 

was no safe level of lead for children. 

One commenter stated that HUD’s 

change was long overdue, and that 37 

States have already implemented a 

change to 3.5 mg/dL for EBLL response. 

Another commenter asserted that 23 

States had adopted the lower CDC level 

as of June 2023, and that six of those 

States provide environmental 

investigations starting at 3.5 mg/dL. 

HUD Response: HUD agrees with 

commenters that the change to an EBLL 

threshold level to align with CDC’s 2021 

recommendation is reasonable and 

justified and is consistent with CDC’s 

positions that, ‘‘[n]o safe level of lead in 

children has been identified,’’ and that 

early intervention is important to reduce 

harm.14 HUD notes that CDC has found 

that, of its childhood lead poisoning 

prevention program’s 15 State-level 

grantees,16 about three quarters used the 

CDC’s current BLRV in 2023 to initiate 

at least one public health action 

described on CDC’s Recommended 

Actions Based on Blood Lead Level web 

page,17 with the most common barrier 

reported by the other quarter of Statelevel grantees being lack of resources for 

follow-up activities and for the 

program.18 About two-thirds of 

jurisdictions perform educational 

interventions, caregiver-lead education, 

and follow-up blood lead monitoring 

and testing at or above the BLRV. Based 

on the CDC’s finding that using its 

BLRV is generally—if not universally, 

because of resource limitations— 

implementable, HUD is selecting the 

BLRV as the threshold to which it is 

changing the EBLL under the Lead Safe 

Housing Rule. For HUD-assisted target 

housing, for which designated parties 

are receiving HUD funds with Lead Safe 

Housing Rule compliance being a 

condition of the assistance, HUD has 

determined that selecting the BLRV as 

its EBLL threshold is feasible and 

appropriate. 

Compliance Period for the EBLL 

Threshold Change 

Comments regarding the compliance 

period for the change to the EBLL 

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19HUD Exchange is a website that provides 

resources and assistance to support HUD’s 

community partners and their partners (https://

www.hudexchange.info/about/). HUD Exchange 

includes a Lead-Based Paint sub-site with 

information on lead-based paint safety in HUDassisted target housing (https://

www.hudexchange.info/programs/lead-basedpaint/), which includes a toolkit on responding to 

cases of a child residing in such housing who has 

an EBLL (https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/ 

lead-based-paint/lshr-toolkit/respond-to-a-childwith-an-ebll/). 

20See, e.g., https://www.hud.gov/program_

offices/spm/gmomgmt/grantsinfo/fundingopps/ 

fy22_23_ccta; and https://www.hud.gov/program_

offices/cfo/gmomgmt/grantsinfo/fundingopps/24- 

25_cctacb. 

21 24 CFR 35.1350(b). 

ongoing program activities were diverse. 

Numerous commenters stated that a 

compliance period of six months or 

longer to meet the revised EBLL 

threshold was appropriate to allow 

housing providers time to change their 

operations and receive technical 

assistance and training. One commenter 

suggested that a compliance period of 

nine months to meet the revised EBLL 

threshold would be more highly favored 

by rental housing owners and may help 

ensure that recertifications in HUD’s 

Housing Choice Voucher program occur 

without disruption, so that families can 

continue to live in their current 

residences if they wish. Another 

commenter advocating for a six-month 

compliance period to meet the revised 

EBLL threshold noted that the time 

would help ensure availability of 

certified professionals to meet the 

increased demand for environmental 

investigations and lead hazard control. 

Commenters noted that a longer 

compliance period would provide HUD 

and other agencies working in lead 

poisoning prevention more time to 

communicate and train on the EBLL 

threshold related changes before 

compliance is required. 

Several commenters recommended a 

compliance period shorter than six 

months to meet the revised EBLL 

threshold, suggesting a range of time 

from immediate implementation to 

three months. For the commenters 

recommending a three month 

compliance period, one commenter 

noted that the shorter compliance 

period would be adequate because 

responding to findings of EBLL cases in 

children under age 6 who reside in 

HUD-assisted target housing is not a 

new activity for providers of such target 

housing. Another commenter noted the 

significant risk of not intervening where 

young children are exposed to lead and 

having blood lead levels between the 

current and intended EBLL thresholds 

(i.e., below 5.0 mg/dL but at or above 3.5 

mg/dL). 

Commenters recommending a 

compliance period shorter than three 

months also emphasized the importance 

of preventing harm to young children, 

asserting that HUD had taken a long 

time in implementing a change from 

CDC’s BLRV recommendations made in 

2021. These commenters also suggested 

that future EBLL threshold revisions be 

automatic if and when CDC revises its 

BLRV, and that HUD consider changing 

the EBLL definition in the Lead Safe 

Housing Rule to remove the requirement 

for notice and comment before 

implementing an EBLL threshold 

change. These commenters also stated 

that, given that so many States and 

State-level jurisdictions have already 

revised their blood lead action level to 

the CDC’s current BLRV, HUD did not 

need to allow additional time for 

designated parties with HUD-assisted 

target housing in those States to adapt 

to a change already covering their 

properties. Lastly, a commenter noted 

that HUD-assisted housing providers 

have had almost four years to learn 

about the CDC’s guidance on responses 

to its lowered BLRV, meaning that 

HUD’s revision to its EBLL threshold 

should not be a surprise to them. 

HUD Response: Based on the 

comments received, HUD agrees that a 

compliance period of more than six 

months is not necessary because of how 

long it has been since the release of 

CDC’s 2021 BLRV guidance. This is 

especially true given that there is 

existing infrastructure and training 

already available to HUD-assisted 

housing providers to respond to 

children with an EBLL. In addition to 

the regulatory revisions in 2017, HUD 

has published guidance and technical 

assistance resources regarding the Lead 

Safe Housing Rule on HUD Exchange.19

Responding to children with EBLLs is 

not a new activity for HUD-assisted 

housing providers, and many have 

already responded to EBLL cases among 

families they serve. HUD also 

appreciates that a significant proportion 

of States and territories have already 

adopted a lower blood lead level action 

threshold for response in advance of 

Federal action for HUD-assisted target 

housing. HUD agrees that a shorter 

compliance implementation period is 

appropriate in these States. HUD is 

designating, in section V, Compliance, 

two compliance implementation periods 

based on whether the blood lead level 

action threshold for the jurisdiction in 

which a property is located is greater 

than the CDC’s current BLRV or is less 

than or equal to that BLRV. 

HUD does not agree with 

recommendations for immediate 

implementation of the EBLL threshold 

change. For HUD’s programs, issuing a 

change with a required programmatic 

effect differs from CDC issuing guidance 

on clinical and public health practices, 

such as CDC revising its BLRV. In 

particular, the designated parties 

affected by HUD changing its EBLL 

threshold for children under age 6 need 

to be notified of the change and given 

time to prepare to comply with the 

change. Comments suggesting that HUD 

should fully eliminate the Lead Safe 

Housing Rule’s requirements for notice 

and comment for future EBLL threshold 

changes are outside of the scope of this 

notice; however, for reasons similar to 

those already stated, HUD disagrees that 

the notice and comment process should 

be eliminated from the Lead Safe 

Housing Rule. As noted above, HUD is 

designating, in section V, Compliance, 

two compliance implementation 

periods. 

Training, Technical Assistance, and 

Support 

Some commenters recommended 

additional training, technical assistance, 

and support for HUD-assisted housing 

providers and jurisdictions 

implementing the EBLL threshold 

change. 

HUD Response: To the extent feasible 

within HUD’s budgetary and staffing 

resource limitations, HUD will provide 

such consultations, including within the 

Community Compass Technical 

Assistance 20 funds that have been 

allocated to the OLHCHH’s lead safety 

program. Further, where appropriate, 

HUD will continue to update the 

guidance and instructional materials on 

the HUD Exchange’s Lead-Based Paint 

website and will provide staff time for 

online and in-person trainings. 

Monitoring and Enforcement 

A few commenters recommended 

additional ‘‘accountability’’ for 

landlords, and several commenters 

noted the need for compliance 

monitoring and enforcement of HUD’s 

regulations regarding lead-based paint. 

HUD Response: HUD notes that the 

Lead Safe Housing Rule requires that 

landlords whose target housing is 

covered by the Lead Safe Housing Rule’s 

EBLL provisions must comply with 

those provisions as well as with State, 

Tribal or local laws, ordinances, codes 

or regulations governing evaluation and 

hazard reduction pertaining to blood 

lead levels of children residing in such 

housing.21

HUD’s OLHCHH will coordinate with 

the HUD program offices that provide 

the housing assistance covered by this 

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22See, e.g., https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/ 

opportunities/instructions/PKG00287135- 

instructions.zip and https://www.hud.gov/program_

offices/healthy_homes/grant_opportunities. 

23For 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. 

enforcement policies and programs to 

reflect the modified EBLL threshold. 

Funding 

Some commenters asserted that this 

change to the EBLL threshold will 

prompt a need for adequate additional 

funding and resources for its 

implementation. 

HUD Response: HUD will continue to 

request sufficient funding to support 

designated parties in implementing the 

revised EBLL threshold. HUD notes, 

however, that this change restores the 

percentage of target housing expected to 

include children under age 6 with 

EBLLs to the percentage anticipated 

under the 2017 amendment to the Lead 

Safe Housing Rule. Therefore, apart 

from inflation since 2017, the associated 

costs for designated parties are expected 

to remain comparable. 

Environmental Investigations and Lead 

Hazard Control Workforce 

One commenter noted that it will be 

stressful for parents if they cannot 

access lead remediation services once 

their child is identified as having an 

EBLL. 

HUD Response: HUD agrees that the 

availability of certified lead-based paint 

professionals and firms to perform 

environmental investigations and lead 

hazard control is important, and HUD 

will continue to make development of 

this workforce a priority under 

OLHCHH’s lead hazard reduction grant 

programs.22

IV. Change to the EBLL Threshold 

Based on the history, comments, and 

reasoning above, HUD is changing the 

EBLL threshold under the Lead Safe 

Housing Rule from its current value of 

5 mg/dL for a child under age 6 to 3.5 

mg/dL for a child under age 6. HUD’s 

revision to its EBLL threshold will 

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.23

The revisions will require an 

environmental investigation by the 

designated party, unless the public 

health department has already evaluated 

the home in connection with the child’s 

EBLL case, when the child resides in 

HUD-assisted target housing covered by 

the Lead Safe Housing Rule’s EBLL 

provisions. 

V. Compliance Dates for Change to the 

EBLL Threshold 

HUD-Assisted Target Housing in States, 

State-Level Jurisdictions, Territories, 

and Local Jurisdictions With a Blood 

Lead Level Action Threshold Equal to or 

Lower Than the CDC’s Current BLRV 

For HUD-assisted target housing in 

States, State-level jurisdictions, 

territories, and local jurisdictions that 

have a blood lead level action threshold 

equal to or lower than the CDC’s current 

BLRV (i.e., equal to or lower than 3.5 

mg/dL for a child under age 6), HUD is 

requiring compliance with this change 

of the Lead Safe Housing Rule’s EBLL 

threshold to 3.5 mg/dL for a child under 

age 6 by April 17, 2025. This 

compliance date provides HUD program 

offices the necessary time to advise the 

designated parties under their 

respective programs and for those 

designated parties to formalize their 

property management plans to reflect 

the change to HUD’s EBLL threshold. 

HUD-Assisted Target Housing in States, 

State-Level Jurisdictions, Territories, 

and Local Jurisdictions With a Blood 

Lead Level Action Threshold Greater 

Than the CDC’s Current BLRV or That 

Do Not Have Such a Threshold 

HUD believes that there may be less 

demand for and capacity of certified 

lead-based paint professionals to 

perform the work associated with HUD’s 

revision to its EBLL threshold where 

there is no blood lead level action 

threshold for a child under age 6 or a 

threshold that is above the CDC’s 

current BLRV. For HUD-assisted target 

housing in such States, State-level 

jurisdictions, territories, and local 

jurisdictions, HUD is requiring 

compliance with this change of the Lead 

Safe Housing Rule’s EBLL threshold to 

3.5 mg/dL for a child under age 6 by July 

16, 2025. HUD agrees with commenters 

that this longer compliance period may 

have a negative impact on the health of 

lead-exposed children; however, HUD 

believes this longer period is necessary 

and reasonable given the challenges 

relating to local capacity of lead-based 

paint professionals and firms. 

Matthew Ammon, 

Director, Office of Lead Hazard Control and 

Healthy Homes. 

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