DRAFT Recommendations to Governor Frank O'Bannon by IKE's Lead Poisoning Prevention Task Force

Published March 30, 2000.  Please provide comments to Tom Neltner by April 12, 2000

Ten Specific Recommendations

Specifically, the IKE Task Force recommends that the Governor initiate the following ten actions and announce the interim results at the ISDH’s Lead Conference on May 11. All ten actions are critical to success. Therefore, they have not been prioritized. However, the first two actions will provide the most significant benefits to the children most in need.

1. Implement federal mandate that all Medicaid eligible children are tested.
2. Implement federal mandate that treatment services are reimbursed.
3. Require mandatory reporting for all blood lead tests.
4. Encourage school districts serving at-risk neighborhoods to require blood lead testing.
5. Encourage housing authorities to fully embrace both the spirit and letter of new HUD lead-based paint regulations.
6. Provide $250,000 in funding to ISDH to support lead-based paint education efforts statewide.
7. Require (at a minimum) the interim controls consistent with HUD regulations for all major renovations and remodeling efforts affecting target housing.
8. Provide funding or tax credits for bricks-and-mortar improvements to target housing (such as window replacement) and other efforts to eradicate lead poisoning in Indiana.
9. Consistently enforce IDEM’s application of open dumping rules to lead-based paint releases.
10. License a sufficient number abatement contractors and risk assessor to meet the need.