Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 843 - ILLINOIS CLEAR-WIN PROGRAM CODE › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 843.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
For purposes of this Part, the following terms have the
				  meanings ascribed in this Section:
"Act" means the Comprehensive Lead Education, Reduction, and
				  Window Replacement Program Act [410 ILCS 43 ].
"Blood Lead Test" means a blood lead testing by venous or
				  capillary methodology.
"Child" means a person under the age of 16.
"Child care facility" means any structure used by a
				  child care provider licensed by the Department of Children and Family Services
				  or a public or private school structure frequented by children 6 years of age
				  or younger.
"Child-occupied property" means a property where a
				  child under 6 years of age is on the property an average of at least 6 hours
				  per week.
"CLEAR-WIN Program" refers to the Comprehensive Lead
				  Education, Reduction, and Window Replacement Program created pursuant to this
				  Act to assist property owners of single-family homes and multi-unit residential
				  properties in the State through the Direct Assistance Program, which reduces
				  lead paint and leaded plumbing hazards and, where necessary, through other lead
				  hazard control techniques.
"Delegate agency" means a unit of local government or public
				  agency approved by the Department to carry out the provisions of the Act for
				  the Lead Direct Assistance Program.
"Department" means the Department of Public
				  Health
of the State of Illinois
.
"Final Clearance Evaluation" means the activity of performing
				  a visual assessment and collecting dust wipe samples following a lead abatement
				  or lead mitigation for the purpose of determining compliance with the
				  Department's standard for lead dust levels to ensure that lead hazard control
				  work was successfully completed.
"Intact Surface" means a surface with no loose, peeling,
				  chipping, flaking, or otherwise separating from substrate. Intact surfaces must
				  not be damaged or worn down in any way that would make paint or debris
				  accessible to children.
"Lead Abatement" means any approved work practices found in
				  Subpart F of the Illinois Lead Poisoning Prevention Code (77 Ill. Adm. Code
				  845) that will permanently eliminate lead exposure or remove the lead-bearing
				  substances in a regulated facility.
"Lead hazard" means a lead-bearing substance that
				  poses an immediate health hazard to humans.
Lead hazard includes a
				  condition in which exposure to lead from lead-contaminated dust,
				  lead-contaminated soil, deteriorated lead-based paint, or lead in water from a
				  plumbing system.
"Lead inspection" means a surface-by-surface investigation to
				  determine the presence of lead-based paint.
"Lead inspector" means an individual who has been trained by
				  a Department-approved training program (see 77 Ill. Adm. Code 845, Subpart C)
				  and is licensed by the Department to conduct lead inspections; to sample for
				  the presence of lead in paint, dust, soil, and water; and to conduct compliance
				  investigations.
"Leaded plumbing" means that portion of a building's
				  potable water plumbing that is suspected or known to contain lead or
				  lead-containing material as indicated by lead in potable water
				  samples.
Leaded plumbing includes lead service lines.
"Lead risk assessment" means an on-site investigation to
				  determine the existence, nature, severity, and location of lead hazards. "Lead
				  risk assessment" includes any lead sampling and visual assessment associated
				  with conducting a lead risk assessment and lead hazard screen and all lead
				  sampling associated with compliance investigations.
"Lead risk assessor" means an individual who has been trained
				  by a Department-approved training program and is licensed by the Department to
				  conduct lead risk assessments, lead inspections, and lead hazard screens; to
				  sample for the presence of lead in paint, dust, soil, water, and sources for
				  lead-bearing substances; and to conduct compliance investigations.
"Low-income" means a household at or below 80% of the
				  median income level for a given county as determined annually by the U.S.
				  Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"Mitigation" means the remediation of a lead hazard so that a
				  lead-bearing substance does not pose an immediate health hazard to
				  humans.
"Person" means an individual, corporation,
				  partnership, firm, organization, or association, acting individually or as a
				  group.
"Plumber" means licensed plumber, licensed apprentice
				  plumber, and registered plumbing contractors as set forth in the Illinois
				  Plumbing License Law [225 ILCS 320 ].
"Plumbing" has the meaning ascribed to that term in
				  the Illinois Plumbing Licensing Law.
"Recipient" means a person receiving direct
				  assistance under
the
Act.
"Residential property" means a single-family
				  residence or renter-occupied property with up to 8
				  units.