Posted by Pops1532 on January 14, 2014 at 08:42:35 from (98.227.133.60):
In Reply to: A serious question. posted by Edd in KY on January 13, 2014 at 18:56:33:
The EPA and other government regulations make it increasingly more difficult for businesses.
A good example is the US EPA RRP (lead paint) regs. They originally said the reason for the RRP program was because of low IQ's and behavioral problems with non-Hispanic black inner-city children (US EPA's terminology, not mine). So they came up with the regulations for the remodeling and painting industry that cost so much to comply with that price many customers out of the market or force them to go with fly-by-night contractors that don't comply with the regulations.
The RRP program does nothing to remove lead from the inner-city slum housing where the low IQ's and behavioral problems were said to be because slum landlords aren't doing any remodeling. The EPA didn't take into account lifestyle choices that contribute to the low IQ's and behavioral problems.
The RRP program does nothing to remove lead paint from houses that are being rehabbed. All it does is address lead dust that is created or lead dust that was present prior to remodeling or painting.
The RRP regs were for the most part written by college interns that had no real world knowledge of the industry they were writing regulations for.
To make the RRP program more appealing to the general public the US EPA put more emphasis on blood lead levels in rural white kids rather than focusing on the inner-city non-Hispanic blacks.
So what does the RRP actually do? It raises the cost for the consumer. The EPA says the RRP regs should raise the cost of installing replacement windows in a average home by $160. In reality, if a contractor were to follow the regulations to the letter the would cost an additional $2000 or more. Possibly MUCH more.
If you recall, back in the early 1980's the US EPA required tetraethyl lead stop being used in gasoline because of low IQ's in inner-city black children (EPA's terminology). Removing lead from gasoline was supposed to improve the low IQ problem, yet thirty years later the low IQ problem is worse. Thirty years from now we'll look bad and realize the US EPA RRP program didn't remedy the low IQ problem for two reasons. It does nothing to remove the root cause of the lead paint hazard in homes, and it doesn't address lifestyle issues that contribute to low IQ's and behavioral problems.
If the added costs to comply weren't enough the EPA included provisions to the RRP program for fines. Something as simple as a staple in the wrong place or a missing 2" piece of tape could cost the contractor $37500 for each infraction per day!
The EPA RRP regs also cause the contractors to walk a legal tightrope in an effort to comply with the RRP and not break OSHA regs and HIPPA regs as they apply to blood lead levels in workers. There's far more to it than I can get into here but the US EPA program creates a huge liability problem for contractors. Not so much in regards to their customers but in regards to their employees. That's why so many lawyers took the RRP training.
Then there are the EPA regs about concrete......
You can pour concrete on the ground but you can run the extra concrete in the chute on the ground. It was supposed to be about washing out a chute but like all things EPA.....if some regulations are good (which they can be), then more regulations must be better.
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