---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2664"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2664"
heading: "Model construction standards and techniques"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2664"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Toxic Substances Control"
  - "Subchapter III — Indoor Radon Abatement"
---

# §2664. Model construction standards and techniques


The [Administrator](/usc/15/2642.md?p=2) of the Environmental Protection Agency shall develop model construction standards and techniques for controlling [radon](/usc/15/2662.md?p=3) levels within new buildings. To the maximum extent possible, these standards and techniques should be developed with the assistance of organizations involved in establishing national building construction standards and techniques. The [Administrator](/usc/15/2642.md?p=2) shall make a draft of the document containing the model standards and techniques available for public review and comment. The model standards and techniques shall provide for geographic differences in construction types and materials, geology, weather, and other variables that may affect [radon](/usc/15/2662.md?p=3) levels in new buildings. The [Administrator](/usc/15/2642.md?p=2) shall make final model standards and techniques available to the public by June 1, 1990. The [Administrator](/usc/15/2642.md?p=2) shall work to ensure that organizations responsible for developing national model building codes, and authorities which regulate building construction within [States](/usc/15/2642.md?p=14) or political subdivisions within [States](/usc/15/2642.md?p=14), adopt the Agency’s model standards and techniques.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–469, title III, § 304, as added Pub. L. 100–551, § 1(a), Oct. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 2756.)