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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-708" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program and Lead Hazard Reduction Loan Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Department may make a grant solely to finance a lead hazard reduction activity that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is a program that tests innovative or unproven methods of lead hazard reduction; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is in a residential property in an area designated by the Department to have a concentration of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>families of limited income; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>residential property constructed before 1950; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>children diagnosed with elevated blood lead, which is a quantity of lead in their blood, expressed in micrograms per deciliter (�g/dl), that exceeds a specified threshold level.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Department may establish standards to determine the eligibility of a lead hazard reduction activity for a grant under the Grant Program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The standards may call for consideration of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the extent to which the lead hazard reduction activity benefits families of limited income;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the need and circumstances of the owner–occupants or tenants of the residential property in which the proposed lead hazard reduction activity will be undertaken; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>whether the grant finances research into innovative or unproven methods for lead hazard reduction.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>In determining whether to make a grant under the Grant Program, the Department shall require that the owner of the residential property or child care center submit evidence that the owner cannot undertake lead hazard reduction activity without a grant.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The Department may require that all or part of a grant under the Grant Program be repaid when conditions specified by the Department occur.</text>
  </level>
</section>
