Here's a little-known fact: the EPA can authorize individual states to administer their own RRP program, and indeed 9 state have thus been authorized.
Those states are:
Wisconsin (Lead Safe Wisconsin)
Iowa (Iowa Dept. of Public Health)
North Carolina (Public Health in North Carolina)
Mississippi (Dept. of Environmental Quality)
Kansas (Kansas Healthy Homes)
Rhode Island (Dept. of Health)
Utah (Utah Dept. of Environmental Quality)
Oregon (Lead Poisoning Prevention Program)
Massachusetts (Labor and Workforce Development)
Want your state to get its own program? Contact your state's lawmakers and let them know. Here is the PDF application form for that.
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