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  • Recommendation Number: 2023-IG-0001-001-A
  • Status: Open
  • Date Issued: October 04, 2022
  • Priority

Update applicable requirements to require assisted property owners, including PHAs, to maintain adequate documentation to support their determinations that maintenance and hazard reduction activities that disturb surfaces with lead-based paint qualify for the de minimis exemption from the lead-safe work practices under the Lead Safe Housing Rule.

Status

The Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes has drafted guidance on the de minimis exception to the Lead Safe Housing Rule for the Office of Public and Indian Housing, the Office of Multifamily Housing, and the Office of Community Planning and Development.

The Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes expects to issue the guidance in final by July 2024.

Analysis

To implement this recommendation, HUD needs to provide evidence that it has prepared and issued a notice to target housing owners and public housing agencies on the de minimis exception and conducted trainings/webinars on requirements and best practices pertaining to de minimis.

Implementation of this recommendation and associated corrective actions will ensure assisted property owners are sufficiently informed regarding the requirements to support their determinations that maintenance and hazard reduction activities that disturb surfaces with lead-based paint qualify for the de minimis exemption from the lead safe work practices under the Lead Safe Housing Rule and that assisted property owners are conducting this work safely, thereby ensuring households are residing in safe and healthy HUD assisted housing.

Publication Report

2023-IG-0001 | October 04, 2022

Management Alert: Action Needed to Ensure That Assisted Property Owners, Including Public Housing Agencies, Comply with the Lead Safe Housing Rule

While conducting an ongoing audit of the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s (Authority) management of lead-based paint hazards in its public housing units, we identified a significant gap in HUD’s program requirements related to safe work practices, which… more