---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4851a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4851a"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4851a"
units:
  - "Chapter 63A — Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction"
---

# §4851a. Purposes


The purposes of this chapter are—

- (1) to develop a national strategy to build the infrastructure necessary to eliminate [lead-based paint hazards](/usc/42/4851b.md?p=15) in all housing as expeditiously as possible;
- (2) to reorient the national approach to the presence of [lead-based paint](/usc/42/4851b.md?p=14) in housing to implement, on a priority basis, a broad program to evaluate and reduce [lead-based paint hazards](/usc/42/4851b.md?p=15) in the Nation’s housing stock;
- (3) to encourage effective action to prevent childhood lead poisoning by establishing a workable framework for [lead-based paint hazard](/usc/42/4851b.md?p=15) [evaluation](/usc/42/4851b.md?p=6) and [reduction](/usc/42/4851b.md?p=22) and by ending the current confusion over reasonable standards of care;
- (4) to ensure that the existence of [lead-based paint hazards](/usc/42/4851b.md?p=15) is taken into account in the development of Government housing policies and in the sale, rental, and renovation of homes and apartments;
- (5) to mobilize national resources expeditiously, through a partnership among all levels of government and the private sector, to develop the most promising, cost-effective methods for evaluating and reducing [lead-based paint hazards](/usc/42/4851b.md?p=15);
- (6) to reduce the threat of childhood lead poisoning in housing owned, assisted, or transferred by the Federal Government; and
- (7) to educate the public concerning the hazards and sources of [lead-based paint](/usc/42/4851b.md?p=14) poisoning and steps to reduce and eliminate such hazards.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–550, title X, § 1003, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3897.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning title X of Pub. L. 102–550, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3897, known as the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 4851 of this title and Tables.