The EPA needs to be completely eliminated from lead paint abatement rule-making and enforcement. Local government inspectors are all that’s needed to make common-sense judgements pertaining to contractors’ lead paint containment at their jobsites.
The sheer number of absurd, counter-productive rules would shock you, and they result in more – not less – pollution, including lead pollution itself.
Elon Musk and his team looking into government bureaucracy nonsense will find ever more absurdities the deeper they look into this matter.