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Checking Your Home for Lead, continued <br />In preparing for renovation, repair, or painting work in a pre-1978 <br />home, Lead-Safe Certified renovators (see page 12) may: <br />• Take paint chip samples to determine if lead-based paint is <br />present in the area planned for renovation and send them to an <br />EPA-recognized lead lab for analysis. In housing receiving federal <br />assistance, the person collecting these samples must be a certified <br />lead-based paint inspector or risk assessor <br />• Use EPA-recognized tests kits to determine if lead-based paint is <br />absent (but not in housing receiving federal assistance) <br />• Presume that lead-based paint is present and use lead-safe work <br />practices <br />There are state and federal programs in place to ensure that testing is <br />done safely, reliably, and effectively. Contact your state or local agency <br />for more information, visit epa.gov/lead, or call 1-800-424-LEAD <br />(5323) for a list of contacts in your area.3 <br />3 Hearing- or speech-challenged individuals may access this number through TTY by <br />calling the Federal Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339. <br />8