Update on Federal Efforts to Identify and Address Lead Exposure Hotspots
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Federal agencies, including Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), collaborated on a U.S. lead hotspots analysis and “blueprint” for identifying high lead (Pb) exposure risk locations using available data, methods, maps, and mapping tools. This session was a follow-up to the 2023 and 2019 NEHA lead mapping sessions on lead hotspot mapping initiatives. The agencies and state/local partners continued to collaborate and coordinate on (1) generalizable approaches and demonstration projects to enhance lead exposure risk mapping science and (2) communications and messaging on public facing Pb data maps and mapping tools.
This session was an update on what federal agencies are doing individually, such as EPA’s efforts to produce a “blueprint” for identifying high lead exposure risk locations, HUD’s efforts to develop indices for housing quality and deteriorated paint, and CDC’s efforts to develop a lead exposure risk index. The session also highlighted the work these federal agencies partnered on together, including national-scale efforts and pilot studies applying lead data mapping to identify and address high lead exposure risk locations. The presenters also shared updates about Federal agency-specific “fit-for-purpose” maps and applying lead data maps to identify and address high lead exposure risk locations.