LEPAC Meeting October 16 & 17
- Blood Lead Surveillance Update-Data Modernization Initiative [PDF – 355 KB]
- CDC’s CORE Health Equity Goal: Increasing Blood Lead Testing in Children Enrolled in Medicaid [PDF – 983 KB]
- Dust-Lead Hazard Standards and Dust-Lead Clearance Levels Reconsideration [PDF – 323 KB]
- EPA Guidance for Service Line Inventories [PDF – 2 MB]
- Lead Service Line Replacement [PDF – 373 KB]
- Lead-Free Communities (LFC) Initiative: The Road to Lead Exposure Elimination [PDF – 600 KB]
- Medicaid & CHIP and Public Health Coordination on Lead Screening [PDF – 270 KB]
- National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) [PDF – 2 MB]
Lead Exposure and Prevention Advisory Committee (LEPAC) Meeting October 16-17, 2023
Location: CDC Roybal Campus Building 24, Room 1103
Day 1
(8:00 am – 8:30 am arrive at CDC Roybal Visitor Center)
8:30 am
Members and guests are escorted to meeting room
8:45 am
Official meeting sign in (in person and online)
9:00 am
Welcome, introductions, announcements and vote on annual report
Paul Allwood, Designated Federal Official, NCEH
Matthew Ammon, Chair, LEPAC and Director, HUD Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
Perri Ruckart, NCEH
9:45 am
Review charge/purpose (Chair)
Matthew Ammon, Chair, LEPAC and Director, HUD Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
10:00 am
CDC updates
- Blood lead testing instrumentation
Paul Allwood, NCEH
- Blood lead surveillance update/Data Modernization Initiative
Audrey Pennington, NCEH
Qaiyim Harris, NCEH
- Lead free communities initiative
Quanza Brooks-Griffin, NCEH
- State policy action related to the blood lead reference value (BLRV)
Alexis Allen, NCEH
- Remarks from NCEH/ATSDR Director
Aaron Bernstein, Director, NCEH/ASTDR
10:45 am
HUD: Alignment of inspection protocol for assisted housing for the last 20 years
Tara J. Radosevich, Assessment Manager
Real Estate Assessment Center, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Updates from the Preventing Lead Exposure in Adults (PLEA) workgroup
Anshu Mohllajee Chair, Research Scientist Supervisor I, California Department of Public Health, Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Public comment
1:45 pm
EPA dust-lead hazard standards and dust-lead clearance levels update
Claire Brisse, Environmental Protection Specialist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2:00 pm
Discussions on lead service line replacement
Steve Via, Director, Federal Relations, American Water Works Association
Kira Smith, Lead and Copper Team Leader, OGWDW, EPA
Matthew Ammon, Chair, LEPAC and Director, HUD Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Continue discussions on lead service line replacement
3:45 pm
Closing comments (Chair)
Matthew Ammon, Chair, LEPAC and Director, HUD Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Day 2
(8:00 am – 8:30 am arrive at CDC Roybal Visitor Center)
8:30 am
Members and guests are escorted to meeting room
8:45 am
Official meeting sign in (in person and online)
9:00 am
Welcome and announcements (Chair)
Matthew Ammon, Chair, LEPAC and Director, HUD Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
9:15 am
Making federal grants work for communities
CDC and other federal agencies
9:45 am
Strategies to increase testing in children enrolled in Medicaid
Mary Beth Hance, Senior Policy Advisor, Children and Adult Health Program Group, Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services
Trina Williams, NCEH
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Updates from LEPAC members
12:00 pm
Wrap up and discuss topics for next meeting
Matthew Ammon, Chair, LEPAC and Director, HUD Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
12:15 pm
Adjourn