OHC has been awarded an Indefinite Quantity Contract with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, for $20 Million to provide Science and Technology support Services for which its specific objectives are:

 1. Design and conduct research and technical studies, laboratory-based and/or field-based as needed, using both primary and secondary data, that will develop or improve cost-effective methods for the evaluation and control of housing-related health hazards.

2.  Design and conduct critical reviews of the scientific literature related to the assessment and control of residential health hazards.

3. Develop and disseminate technical guidance materials and provide technical support (e.g., environmental sampling protocols, develop and review quality control procedures) for OHHLHC grantees and for State and local governments implementing similar lead hazard treatment and/or housing-related health and safety improvement programs.

4. Design and conduct a study to estimate the effectiveness of OHHLHC grantees and State and local governments in the evaluation and reduction of lead-based paint and other housing-related hazards, such as moisture and mold, pest control, and indoor environmental quality.

5. Review and summarize the scientific literature on the control of household allergens for the purpose of reducing asthma morbidity.

6. Create an archive of processed residential dust for use as quality control samples for environmental allergen analyses and conduct a study of intra- and inter-laboratory variability in the analysis of the dust.

7. Develop standardized environmental assessment and sampling for Healthy Homes grantees.

8. Analyze data on residential lead exposure from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to identify factors that are predictive of elevated dust-lead and blood-lead (of index child) levels.

9. Organize peer reviews of reports on the results of technical studies.

10. Prepare manuscripts of technical results for publication in peer reviewed literature.

11. Develop and provide guidance to builders and property managers on preventing and controlling moisture problems in homes.

12. Provide technical conference presentations and support for technical conference sessions and exhibitions.

13. Prepare public use datasets.

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