Lead-Based Paint Program

Find a certified professional for your project, learn how to become a certified contractor, or get the information you need to keep your family safe from lead-based paint exposure.

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Lead in soil

Is your soil safe? Find out with a free lead screening from your local health department. Learn how to collect a sample.

Lead in older homes

Homes built before 1978 likely contain lead-based paint. Dust from this paint is the primary cause of lead poisoning, which can severely harm a child’s brain and nervous system, causing learning and behavioral problems. Read more about Utah’s regulation below .

Lead paint test kits

The EPA currently recognizes two lead paint test kits for use by certified renovators:

LeadCheck®: Previously made by 3M, this kit is now manufactured by Luxfer.
D-Lead®: This kit is also recognized by the EPA.
If you would like to try out a D-Lead test kit, contact DAQ for a free sample.

Before starting work, refer to the official EPA page for all mandatory usage requirements.

ATLAS Database

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Certified companies and labs

Construction date map

Use the map to determine if a house was built prior to 1978.

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Screenshot of a map: Lead paint 1978 construction map preview

Record Keeping Forms

Non-Certified Worker Training
Use and customize this generic non-certified worker training (“tailgate training”) form to document project training by a certified renovator.
Paint Chip Sample Collection Guide
EPA published this guide for LBP renovators which includes a documentation form.
Sample Renovation Record Keeping Checklist
A sample checklist for regulated LBP RRP activities.
Test Kit Documentation Form
Lead safety for LBP renovation, repair, and painting rule. Helps contractors comply with the renovation recordkeeping requirements that took effect in Utah on April 7, 2010.

Lead Paint Safety—A Field Guide for Painting, Home Maintenance, and Renovation Work Part of HUD’s comprehensive approach to lead safety in the home. If you perform routine maintenance on homes or apartments built before 1978, this guide will help you plan and carry out your work safely. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations explain and show what you need to do to protect yourself and your clients if you are working in older housing that could contain lead paint. Pamphlet Created by the EPA.

How to Become Certified
Training Course Providers
Citizenship Form
Proof of citizenship or legal residency status (i.e., drivers license, passport) must be attached. This form must be included with all initial certification applications for U.S. citizens (one time only). It must be included with all applications (including recertification) for all non-U.S. citizens with every certification application. Proof of resident alien status must be attached.
Course Accreditation Application – for training course providers

ATLAS Database Notification and Certification Submittal

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The Lead-Safe Certified Guide to Renovate Right

If You’re Not Lead-Safe Certified, Disturbing Just Six Square Feet Could Cost You Big Time
Informs building managers responsible for renovation jobs in apartments, hospitals, schools, day-care centers, extended-stay hotel suites, etc., of the importance of becoming lead-safe certified. Also contains information for Child-Care Providers. Pamphlet Created by the EPA. Published 2011

Steps to Lead Safe Renovation, Repair and Painting | En Español
Guide for contractors and homeowners on how to plan for and complete a home renovation, repair or painting project in pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities using lead-safe work practices. Pamphlet Created by the EPA. Published March 2021

Small Entity Compliance Guide to Renovate Right | En Español
The EPA’s lead-based paint renovation, repair, and painting program. A handbook for contractors, property managers, and maintenance personnel working in homes and child-occupied facilities built before 1978. Pamphlet Created by the EPA. Updated September 2011

Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home | En Español | Several Languages Available
This pamphlet must be provided to prospective buyers/renters of pre-1978 residences and to the occupants of pre-1978 residences where renovations will take place. Pamphlet Created by the EPA.

Lead in Your Home: A Parent’s Reference Guide
A comprehensive resource for parents on many lead-related topics. Pamphlet Created by the EPA. June 1998

Fight Lead Poisoning with a Healthy Diet
Discusses proper nutrition and lead poisoning prevention, and features fast, nutritious recipes. Pamphlet Created by the EPA. November 2001

Lead Poisoning and Your Children | En Español
General lead information and safe practices for parents and an 11″x17″ fold-out poster. November 2001

Lead Paint Safety—A Field Guide for Painting, Home Maintenance, and Renovation Work
Part of HUD’s comprehensive approach to lead safety in the home. If you perform routine maintenance on homes or apartments built before 1978, this guide will help you plan and carry out your work safely. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations explain and show what you need to do to protect yourself and your clients if you are working in older housing that could contain lead paint. Pamphlet Created by the EPA.

Give Your Child the Chance of a Lifetime, Keep Your Child Lead-Safe | En Español
Developed for Head Start parents on lead poisoning prevention. Pamphlet Created by the EPA.

Best Management Practices for Lead at Outdoor Shooting Ranges

Contact your local health department to ask for soil-lead screening.

There are rules and regulations in place to help reduce lead exposure from lead-based paint. The rules and regulations can generally be separated into 2 categories, 1) lead-based paint activities (inspections, risk assessments, lead hazard screens, and abatement activities) and lead-based paint renovation, repair, and painting (RRP).

The Utah Lead-Based Paint Program establishes and enforces work practice procedures for lead-based paint activities and renovation, repair, and painting performed by paid contractors in the State of Utah. The program oversees the certification of individuals and firms performing either lead-based paint or renovation, repair, and painting work activities, and establishes the procedures and requirements for the accreditation of lead-based paint training providers that train the individuals performing lead-based paint work.

Rules

Utah Administrative Code (UAC) R307-840
Lead-Based Paint Program Purpose, Applicability, and Definitions
Utah Administrative Code (UAC) R307-841
Residential Property and Child-Occupied Facility Renovation
Utah Administrative Code (UAC) R307-842
Lead-Based Paint Activities
40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 745
Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention in Certain Residential Structures
40 CFR 745 Subpart E Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Program Rules
Lead-Based Paint Disclosure Rule, Section 1018 of Title X – Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992

State and Federal Resources

HUD Lead-Based Paint Website
Provides funds to local government agencies to develop cost-effective ways to reduce lead-based paint hazards.
- The HUD Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of Lead-based Paint in Housing
EPA Lead-Based Paint Website
Make sure that lead safety is a part of your renovation.
FAQ’s about Utah’s LBP Rule

Contacts

Tamie Call ([email protected]), (385) 227-1055
Ky Fonger ([email protected]), (385) 214-3659
Barbara Perkins ([email protected]), (801) 536-0221
Leonard Wright ([email protected]), (801) 707-8032
Jared James ([email protected]) (385) 306-6501
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Lead in soil

Lead in older homes

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Construction date map

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Record Keeping Forms

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About lead-based paint

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