Table 1.

Agencies in California with Regulatory Authority Involving Exide

Public Agency	Role in lead poisoning prevention	Authority
DTSC	Tasked with enforcing hazardous waste laws, reducing hazardous waste generation, restoring contaminated resources, and encouraging the manufacture of chemically safer products. Lead agency for the Exide remediation.	Regulates companies that handle hazardous waste under the authority of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976.
CDPH CLPPP and OLPPP (State Health)	Mission to reduce exposure of children and adult workers to lead.	Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Acts of 1986 and 1989 established the CLPPP within the CDPH. In addition, the California Health and Safety Code mandates medical laboratories to report cases of children with EBLLs to the California Department of Health Services. Since passage of SB 460 medical laboratories are required to report all blood lead levels, California Health and Safety Code Sections 105185–105195 established the OLPPP.
Cal/OSHA	Responsible for overseeing worker health and safety on the job.	Establishes permissible exposure limits, medical surveillance, special protective measures, and exposure monitoring.
South Coast AQMD	Regulation of air emissions from all facilities that use or process lead containing materials. Enforces federal and regional air quality standards.	Regulates air emissions under the Title V permit program.
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (County Health)	Investigates cases of EBLLs in children.	Under contract to the CDPH.

AQMD, Air Quality Management Distance; Cal/OSHA, California Division of Occupational Safety and Health; CDPH, California Department of Public Health; CLPPP, Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program; DTSC, Department of Toxics Substances Control; OLPPP, Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.