Protect Pregnant Women and Children from Dangerous Lead Exposures Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3639
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Employment of the disadvantaged
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Epidemiology
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Law
Lead
Lead poisoning
Licenses
Paints and varnishes
Pregnant women
Residential rehabilitation
Risk
Soil pollution
Standards
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Protect Pregnant Women and Children from Dangerous Lead Exposures Act of 2008 - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), no later than April 30, 2009, to use the best available science to: (1) promulgate a final rule revising EPA's lead-based paint hazard standard promulgated under the Toxic Substances Control Act to a more protective level that safeguards the health of pregnant women and children; and (2) require the use of a lead dust cleaning clearance methodology that ensures lead dust levels meet such revised standard. Requires the Administrator to ensure that EPA's Clean Air Science Advisory Committee peer reviews the analyses that the Administrator uses to revise such standard and to require the use of such methodology.

Requires the Administrator, no later than April 22, 2010, to integrate into EPA's revised rules on renovation and remolding activities that create lead-based paint hazards such revised standard and methodology. 

Requires the Administrator to review and reevaluate the health protectiveness of the rule revising EPA's lead-based paint hazard standard to determine whether to increase protections for the health of pregnant women and children: (1) every five years; or (2) more frequently if significant scientific findings indicate that the standard should be so revised.

Declares that this Act does not modify or affect any effective date described in the final rule of the Environmental Protection Agency entitled &quot;Lead: Renovation, Repair, and Repainting Program&quot; published on April 22, 2008. Requires the Administrator to: (1) update such final rule to include requirements concerning the reduction of lead hazards; and (2) establish a grant program to expand training opportunities relating to lead-based paint that are available at the state and tribal level. Sets forth provisions concerning the use of funds from such grant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1097.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Boxer. With written report No. 110-515. Additional views filed.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Boxer. With written report No. 110-515. Additional views filed.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2008-09-17
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works ordered to be reported an original measure.