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New renovation rules to push up costs(epa police now in your home)
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| April 12th, 2010
| 4/12/2010
Posted on 04/12/2010 12:15:00 PM PDT by day21221
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EPA Introduces New Lead Safety Regulation POSTED: 7:19 am EDT April 12, 2010 After a nearly two-decade delay, a new rule requiring the construction industry to take measures to protect children from lead poisoning will be implemented April 22, says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Renovation and remodeling contractors' requirements under the new regulation include containing work sites with plastic and thoroughly cleaning up lead paint dust stirred up during work, The New York Times reported.
About 38 million units of housing stock are potentially affected by the rule, according to EPA officials.
"We think it will be very effective," Steve Owens, assistant administrator for the EPA's office of prevention, pesticides and toxic substances, told the Times. "It's a rule designed to address one of the major sources of lead pollution."
Legislation directing the EPA to propose the regulation was passed by Congress in 1992. The EPA finally finished the rule in 2008 after a lawsuit from environmental and public interest groups, the newspaper said.
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:15:02 PM PDT
by
day21221
To: day21221
“The new rules will require builders to send in their application to the EPA to become a certified firm and each employee must get his or her certified renovator status, which requires an eight-hour training course and passing an exam. According to the EPA, this employee also will be responsible for training other employees and overseeing work practices and cleaning. “
Boy, this is sure gonna help jobs right along!
Good Grief!! I can also see homeowners insurance claims becoming a nightmare because of the increase in “ordinance” payments now required in repairing a normal home after a kitchen fire or something.
This is a nightmare and this will effect a whole lot of folks who make less than $200,000 a year.
The EPA is an UNELECTED BODY and has no legal right to this at all. But as usual, the elite political folks will let it ride right by...
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:20:28 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: day21221
Since when did the EPA start running the country? How many EPA employees have been elected by the public across this country?
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:22:14 PM PDT
by
RC2
To: day21221
“unintended” bi-product: More slums, more unrepaired, unsafe units.
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:22:15 PM PDT
by
Truth29
To: day21221
We have a school around here that closed in 1985. At the time the cost to demolish it would have been a few hundred thou. But some of the school board members were against this, thinking that if enrollment increased in the future it could be reopened. Two years later the EPA issued new regs on asbestos, very similar to these. The cost of demolition shot up to nearly $5 million almost immediately.
The school has been rotting away with water damage and collapsing roof ever since, the board not having the $5 mil to legally tear it down.
To: day21221
The EPA is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate the environment.
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:25:07 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:29:19 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(We were hoping for flying unicorns that crapped skittles. We got nationalized health care.)
To: day21221
In her speech Friday, Palin used the term “Economic Punishment Agency.” Sure fits here.
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:30:34 PM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Sarah: " Shoot ... Oh, I said 'shoot', I'm sorry" ... followed with an embarrassed grin on her face)
To: day21221
I was thinking about having my windows replaced later this year. I might have to ask for quotes for the full job and for just doing the window installation in 8 holes where the windows used to be so the installer doesn’t disturb any lead surfaces (just ignore all those paint chips and glass shards on the ground outside)
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:33:05 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
To: day21221
More people and contractors will just do it without permits and people will pay cash. It’s a lose lose situation for the Marxist regime.
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:35:30 PM PDT
by
mojitojoe
(“Our leaders seek to pit us against one another, and torment us relentlessly."Mark Levin)
To: day21221
EPA has absolutely no jurisdiction on this matter unless there is an FHA loan, period.
This is strictly a State matter.
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:40:20 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
To: day21221
Thank you for joining Free Republic on the 8th of April, 2010 to give us this news! I contacted the contractor school which I utilize for my State mandated continuing education requirements to see if they were offering a class. They got right back to me and informed me that this is an EPA law and only the EPA has enforcement authority. No local or State construction officials will be enforcing this law. Furthermore, some construction schools are advertising that they are State approved to offer this mandated class at a cost of $225.00. The State has not approved any schools because this is a EPA mandated Law. I have bid on Fed Grant jobs that required Lead Paint safeguards in the past and the training was provided by the administrator of the grant in a few hours.
Before I pay for any class I will need to research this Bullcrap! Sounds like they may have a problem enforcing this.
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:40:33 PM PDT
by
goodtomato
(I'm really, really blessed! I support Marco Rubio 2010)
To: day21221
this will do wonders for a struggling housing market.
*sigh*
To: day21221
Some things wont change, but one thing is for sure its going to increase the cost of remodeling a home that was built before 1978, said Stephen L. Polozola
"We think it will be very effective," Steve Owens, assistant administrator for the EPA's office of prevention, pesticides and toxic substances...
Yeah, effective at further reducing work activity in the construction trades.....
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:40:58 PM PDT
by
hoosier hick
(Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
To: day21221
As a kid, I cast lead soldiers. Mom used to let us play with the Mercury when a thermometer broke. I had a summer job where I cleaned industrial furnace boiler boxes and I’m sure there was all kinds of asbestos around there. Washed my hands with gasoline, turpentine, bleach or whatever would do the job. I’m sure some of that contributed to my change from a liberal kid to a disgruntled old conservative.
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:41:03 PM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: day21221
We built in 1973 but did NOT USE ANY LEAD BASED PAINT--ALL LATEX. Our exterior is natural cedar and rock. The EPA can pound sand (if it isn't against their rules.
vaudine
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:43:14 PM PDT
by
vaudine
(,,)
To: Carry_Okie
“This is strictly a State matter. “
The one with the gold makes the rules, and the states are broke.
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:44:06 PM PDT
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: day21221
Contractors typically use a wet/dry vac to clean up after themselves on a job, but now theyre going to have to purchase one with a HEPA filter, so instead of $200 or $300 for a vac, theyre looking at $1,500 and theyre obviously going to have to pass along those expenses to the consumer, Polozola said.If a contractor does 20 jobs a year, and if one of these vacs lasts 3 years, then the avg. cost increase is less than $25 per job. That is not the argument I would be making against this regulation. Certified renovators
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! When ever someone has to have special certification because of a gov't regulation, they will be able to charge more. Perhaps 20% to 30% more. A $1500 job will be priced at $1800 or more.
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:47:38 PM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: day21221; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:53:00 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: day21221
EPA: Eratic Political Anti American: out of control and in need of repair or replacement
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posted on
04/12/2010 12:54:04 PM PDT
by
The Wizard
(I support Madam President, the only President in America today)
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