Industry and public health advocates say EPA needs to collect additional exposure and other data to support its effort to determine whether repairs and renovations on commercial and public buildings pose a sufficient hazard from lead-based paint to warrant regulation, but the two sides are at odds over how the agency should proceed. At a June 26 public meeting, industry supporters disparaged risk and other studies the agency has pointed to so far in support of a rule and called for EPA to start anew to launch studies, while public health advocates say industry should supply EPA with exposure assessment data it already should have been collecting for years under worker protection rules. "EPA has to start from the beginning and devote the necessary time and resources to conduct the studies," Christine Young-Gertz, with the National Apartment Association, said at the meeting at EPA headquarters in Washington, DC.
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