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May 7th, 2011, 11:07 PM
The EPA’s RRP rule includes specific work practices dictating how renovations, repairs and painting work must be performed at pre-1978 homes and child occupied facilities. Renovators must use these prescriptive work practices as they go about their work or risk significant fines. Due to their lack of insight about how renovations happen and the related costs depending on how work is performed, the work practices dictated by EPA are killing innovation and limiting job growth within our industry in many ways.
President Obama has several times declared that our country must look to innovation as way to stimulate much needed economic and job growth. I agree. Perhaps he and the EPA should read what I share below. I encourage those affected by the RRP to pass this information along to both of them as well as your local and state representatives.
One way the rule is preventing innovation is that it is prescriptive and at the same time performance based. In other words, even though the worksite must meet a certain cleaning verification procedure result at completion of the work, workers are not allowed to use their own methods to contain and perform the work. Unfortunately they must do their work in a restricted fashion as dictated by EPA.
Link to full article: http://www.remodeling.hw.net/blogs/postdetails.aspx?BlogId=shawnmccadden&PostId=102845
President Obama has several times declared that our country must look to innovation as way to stimulate much needed economic and job growth. I agree. Perhaps he and the EPA should read what I share below. I encourage those affected by the RRP to pass this information along to both of them as well as your local and state representatives.
One way the rule is preventing innovation is that it is prescriptive and at the same time performance based. In other words, even though the worksite must meet a certain cleaning verification procedure result at completion of the work, workers are not allowed to use their own methods to contain and perform the work. Unfortunately they must do their work in a restricted fashion as dictated by EPA.
Link to full article: http://www.remodeling.hw.net/blogs/postdetails.aspx?BlogId=shawnmccadden&PostId=102845