Section 843.20 Definitions

Section 843.20

Definitions

For purposes of

this Part, the following terms have the meanings ascribed in this Section:

"Act

"

means the

Comprehensive Lead Education, Reduction, and Window Replacement Program Act

[410 ILCS 43].

"Blood Lead Test" means a blood lead testing

by venous or capillary methodology.

"Child" means a person under the age of 16.

"Child care facility" means any

structure used by a child care provider licensed by the Department of Children

and Family Services or a public or private school structure frequented by

children 6 years of age or younger.

"Child-occupied property" means

a property where a child under 6 years of age is on the property an average of

at least 6 hours per week.

"CLEAR-WIN Program" refers to

the Comprehensive Lead Education, Reduction, and Window Replacement Program

created pursuant to this Act to assist property owners of single-family homes

and multi-unit residential properties in the State through the Direct

Assistance Program, which reduces lead paint and leaded plumbing hazards and,

where necessary, through other lead hazard control techniques.

"Delegate agency" means a unit of local

government or public agency approved by the Department to carry out the

provisions of the Act for the Lead Direct Assistance Program.

"Department" means the

Department of Public Health

of

the State of Illinois

.

"Final Clearance Evaluation" means the

activity of performing a visual assessment and collecting dust wipe samples

following a lead abatement or lead mitigation for the purpose of determining

compliance with the Department's standard for lead dust levels to ensure that

lead hazard control work was successfully completed.

"Intact Surface" means a surface with no

loose, peeling, chipping, flaking, or otherwise separating from substrate.

Intact surfaces must not be damaged or worn down in any way that would make

paint or debris accessible to children

on for the purpose of determining

compliance with the Department's standard for lead dust levels to ensure that

lead hazard control work was successfully completed.

"Intact Surface" means a surface with no

loose, peeling, chipping, flaking, or otherwise separating from substrate.

Intact surfaces must not be damaged or worn down in any way that would make

paint or debris accessible to children.

"Lead Abatement" means any approved work

practices found in Subpart F of the Illinois Lead Poisoning Prevention Code (77

Ill. Adm. Code 845) that will permanently eliminate lead exposure or remove the

lead-bearing substances in a regulated facil

ity.

"Lead hazard" means a

lead-bearing substance that poses an immediate health hazard to humans.

Lead hazard

includes a condition in which exposure to lead from lead-contaminated dust,

lead-contaminated soil, deteriorated lead-based paint, or lead in water from a

plumbing system.

"Lead inspection" means a surface-by-surface

investigation to determine the presence of lead-based paint.

"Lead inspector" means an individual who has

been trained by a Department-approved training program (see 77 Ill. Adm. Code

845, Subpart C) and is licensed by the Department to conduct lead inspections;

to sample for the presence of lead in paint, dust, soil, and water; and to

conduct compliance investigations.

"Leaded plumbing" means that

portion of a building's potable water plumbing that is suspected or known to

contain lead or lead-containing material as indicated by lead in potable water

samples.

Leaded plumbing includes lead service lines.

"Lead risk assessment" means an on-site

investigation to determine the existence, nature, severity, and location of

lead hazards. "Lead risk assessment" includes any lead sampling and

visual assessment associated with conducting a lead risk assessment and lead

hazard screen and all lead sampling associated with compliance investigations

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samples.

Leaded plumbing includes lead service lines.

"Lead risk assessment" means an on-site

investigation to determine the existence, nature, severity, and location of

lead hazards. "Lead risk assessment" includes any lead sampling and

visual assessment associated with conducting a lead risk assessment and lead

hazard screen and all lead sampling associated with compliance investigations.

"Lead risk assessor" means an individual who

has been trained by a Department-approved training program and is licensed by

the Department to conduct lead risk assessments, lead inspections, and lead

hazard screens; to sample for the presence of lead in paint, dust, soil, water,

and sources for lead-bearing substances; and to conduct compliance

investigations.

"Low-income" means a household

at or below 80% of the median income level for a given county as determined

annually by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

"Mitigation" means the remediation of a lead

hazard so that a lead-bearing substance does not pose an immediate health

hazard to humans.

"Person" means an individual,

corporation, partnership, firm, organization, or association, acting

individually or as a group.

"Plumber" means licensed plumber, licensed

apprentice plumber, and registered plumbing contractors as set forth in the

Illinois Plumbing License Law [225 ILCS 320].

"Plumbing" has the meaning

ascribed to that term in the Illinois Plumbing Licensing Law.

"Recipient" means a person

receiving direct assistance under

the

Act.

"Residential property" means a

single-family residence or renter-occupied property with up to 8 units.