The Environmental Protection Agency has extended the expiration dates for the RRP Lead-Safe program certifications for individuals.
Those individuals certified on or before March 31, 2010, have until March 31, 2016, to get recertified. Individuals certified between April 1, 2010, and March 31, 2011, will have one year added to their five-year certification.
The EPA made the change so renovators’ certifications will not expire before the agency finalizes a rule it introduced earlier this year. That rule allows renovators to seek recertification online versus forcing them to travel to a hands-on recertification program.
The decision to extend expiration dates will allow renovators to take advantage of the new rule when it goes into effect, the EPA said on its website.
In addition to the changes to the RRP program introduced by the EPA, in May a North Dakota legislator introduced a bill that would allow homeowners without small children or pregnant women residing in the home to decide whether to require RRP compliance. The bill, H.R. 2328, would also allow remodelers to correct paperwork errors without facing full penalties, provide an exemption for emergency renovations and stop requiring recertification training to be hands on.
