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EPA Regional Offices
EPA addresses residential lead hazards through several dierent regulations.
EPA requires training and certication for conducting abatement and renovations,
education about hazards associated with renovations, disclosure about known lead
paint and lead hazards in housing, and sets lead-paint hazard standards.
Your Regional EPA Oce can provide further information regarding lead safety and
lead protection programs at epa.gov/lead.
Region 1
(Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Maine, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Vermont)
Regional Lead Contact
U.S. EPA Region 1
Suite 110 0
One Congress Street
Boston, MA 02114-2023
(888) 372-7341
Region 2
(New Jersey, New York,
Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands)
Regional Lead Contact
U.S. EPA Region 2
2890 Woodbridge Avenue
Building 205, Mail Stop 225
Edison, NJ 08837-3679
(732) 321-6671
Region 3
(Delaware, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Washington, DC, West
Virginia)
Regional Lead Contact
U.S. EPA Region 3
1650 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
19103-2029
(215) 814-5000
Region 4
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee)
Regional Lead Contact
U.S. EPA Region 4
61 Forsyth Street, SW
Atlanta, GA 30303-8960
(404) 562-9900
Region 5
(Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin)
Regional Lead Contact
U.S. EPA Region 5
77 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60604-3507
(312) 886-6003
Region 6
(Arkansas, Louisiana, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
Regional Lead Contact
U.S. EPA Region 6
1445 Ross Avenue,
12th Floor
Dallas, TX 75202-2733
(214) 665-7577
Region 7
(Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,
Nebraska)
Regional Lead Contact
U.S. EPA Region 7
901 N. 5th Street
Kansas City, KS 66101
(913) 551-7003
Region 8
(Colorado, Montana,
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Utah, Wyoming)
Regional Lead Contact
U.S. EPA Region 8
1595 Wynkoop Street
Denver, CO 80202
(303) 312- 6312
Region 9
(Arizona, California, Hawaii,
Nevada)
Regional Lead Contact
U.S. Region 9
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 947-8021
Region 10
(Alaska, Idaho,
Oregon, Washington)
Regional Lead Contact
U.S. EPA Region 10
1200 Sixth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101-1128
(206) 553-1200
EPA CONTACTS OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES
CPSC
The Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) protects the public
from the unreasonable risk of injury or
death from 15,000 types of consumer
products under the agency’s jurisdiction.
CPSC warns the public and private
sectors to reduce exposure to lead and
increase consumer awareness. Contact
CPSC for further information regarding
regulations and consumer product safety.
CPSC
4330 East West Highway
Bethesda, MD 20814
Hotline 1-(800) 638-2772
cpsc.gov
CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning
Prevention Branch
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) assists state and local
childhood lead poisoning prevention
programs to provide a scientic basis
for policy decisions, and to ensure that
health issues are addressed in decisions
about housing and the environment.
Contact CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning
Prevention Program for additional
materials and links on the topic of lead.
CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning
Prevention Branch
4770 Buford Highway, MS F-40
Atlanta, GA 30341
(770) 488-3300
cdc.gov/nceh/lead
HUD Office of Healthy Homes and Lead
Hazard Control
The Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) provides funds
to state and local governments to
develop cost-eective ways to reduce
lead-based paint hazards in America’s
privately-owned low-income housing. In
addition, the oce enforces the rule on
disclosure of known lead paint and lead
hazards in housing, and HUD’s lead safety
regulations in HUD-assisted housing,
provides public outreach and technical
assistance, and conducts technical
studies to help protect children and their
families from health and safety hazards
in the home. Contact the HUD Oce of
Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
for information on lead regulations,
outreach eorts, and lead hazard control
research and outreach grant programs.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development
Oce of Healthy Homes and
Lead Hazard Control
451 Seventh Street, SW, Room 8236
Washington, DC 20410-3000
HUD’s Lead Regulations Hotline
(202) 402-7698
hud.gov/oces/lead/