The owner of the property where you are currently a tenant is seeking assistance from this Program to identify and reduce the lead-based paint hazards in your rental unit. In order to determine if the property is eligible for assistance, we need you to complete the attached Resident Income Verification Form with your household's income. This information will be kept strictly confidential and will be used only to determine the eligibility of your rental unit.

Following is a brief summary of how our Program operates:

• Our testing consultant will perform an XRF Inspection of your unit, testing every painted surface to determine if lead is present. The inspector will also collect dust wipe samples to measure the levels of lead in the house dust.
• A Risk Assessment will be completed to determine where lead paint is posing a hazard; and Specifications for work to address these hazards will be prepared.
• A Vermont-certified lead abatement contractor will complete the work. Depending on how much is required, it can take one to three weeks to finish.
• While the work is completed, you and your family must be temporarily relocated to another location. Program staff and your landlord will work with you to make sure you have somewhere decent and safe to stay. Please read the statement of your relocation rights below. You will be required to pack up your belongings so the contractor has enough room to complete the work. You will receive more specific information about this later.
• Before your family moves back in, dust wipe samples will be collected and analyzed to insure that the property is safe.

Testing for Young Children

The Vermont Department of Health recommends that all children under age six be tested for lead at least once; and more often if they live in housing that contains lead paint. If you have young children that have not been tested recently, we strongly encourage you to do so as soon as possible. Lead poisoning has no obvious symptoms, so the only way to know if there is a problem is to get your children tested. The Vermont Department of Health, through their local health offices, provides free lead screening clinics throughout the State. Contact them at 1-800-439-8550 for more information about the location and date of a clinic near you.

Please complete the attached Resident Income Verification Form and return it to your landlord, or directly to us at:
VHCB Lead Program
149 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05602

If you have any questions about completing the attached form or about the Lead Program, please call (802) 828-5064.

KEEP THIS INFORMATION SHEET FOR YOUR RECORDS.

Notice of Non-Displacement & Temporary Relocation

This is to inform you that, if assistance is provided to your landlord and the property in which you are living has lead paint hazard control work undertaken, you will not be permanently displaced. Because Federal assistance will be involved, you are protected from displacement by the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies of 1970, as amended. However, if you do decide to move permanently for reasons of your own, you will not be eligible for relocation assistance.

It is likely that you will need to be temporarily relocated from your rental unit while the lead paint hazard control work is being completed. Either someone from the VHCB Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Program or your landlord will be in touch with you to discuss the need and timing of temporary relocation.

If you have to be temporarily relocated, assistance will be provided to help cover additional reasonable living costs. If necessary, you will be provided with assistance in finding suitable temporary housing.