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9 no 4, September, 2009, ISSN 1324-6011 Incorporating Lead Aware Times ( ISSN 1440-4966) and Lead Advisory Service News ( ISSN 1440-0561) The Journal of The LEAD (Lead Education and Abatement Design) Group Inc. Editor-in-Chief: Evan Whitton |
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Barack Obama’s administration allocates US$169m for lead poisoning prevention in FY 2009-10 Seeing the urgency of
addressing lead contamination in the USA, Barack Obama’s Administration to the EPA US$14,442,000 for the Lead Risk Reduction Program and $14,564,000 for Categorical Lead Grants. (Ref: p. 458 (Risk Reduction) and p. 705 (Grants)www.epa.gov/budget/2010/fy_2010_congressional_justification.pdf); to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a total of US$140 million, towards lead related health awareness, prevention and management. He has requested an increase from the previous year’s funding of US$14.6 million to the proposed US$20 million, indicating an almost 40% increase in the grant towards lead safety management. (Ref: p. 49 of 64 www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2010/assets/hud.pdf ) New York family awarded more than US$1 million for lead exposure in case against landlords
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