EPA LEAD INSPECTOR UPDATED EXAM PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Major use for lead? - ✔✔Storage batteries
✔✔Amount of lead in water depends on? - ✔✔Age, corosiveness, time lead has been in
water
✔✔What is a building component type? - ✔✔Paint, stain, varnish, shelack
✔✔What is the substrate? - ✔✔Material under paint, ex. brick, cement, drywall, wood,
metal
✔✔What does RMD stand for? - ✔✔Radiation monitor device
✔✔What are the conditions for abreviation of testing? - ✔✔1st 5 room equivalent
component + substrates positive, you can assume rest of room is postive.
✔✔Paint chip samples should be done if tests are? - ✔✔Inconclusive
✔✔Time and motion analysis means? - ✔✔How long it takes to do job
✔✔Clearance sampling should be how long after a final clean? - ✔✔1 hour
✔✔Areas to take dust swipe samples? - ✔✔Near hazard areas where treatment was
done, nearby high traffic areas, other areas selected by inspector
✔✔Do disposable wipes need to contain aloe? - ✔✔no
✔✔Centrifuges must be what size? - ✔✔50 ml
✔✔How many wipes for a composite sample? - ✔✔2-4
✔✔How many disposable wipes can you put in a container for testing? - ✔✔4
✔✔On spiked samples blind analysis should fall between? - ✔✔80-120
✔✔True or false - If composite sample is used, a minimum of 3 composite dust samples
should be collected for floor, sills & trough - ✔✔True
✔✔Parties should maintain records for abatement, interim control, risk assessment,
inspection and clearance test for how many years? - ✔✔3 years
,✔✔Do disposable wipes have to be 2" x 2"? - ✔✔No
✔✔Should disposable wipes be free of lead? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔What does VOC stand for? - ✔✔Volatile organic compound
✔✔Soil samples should be taken how many feet apart? - ✔✔2ft - 6ft apart
✔✔Sources of lead in soil? - ✔✔Chipped paint, gas
✔✔Sample tests on soil should be how deep? - ✔✔1/2" inch
✔✔Soil replacement should be how deep? - ✔✔6" deep
✔✔Soil is always collected as composite samples - ✔✔
✔✔What is AAS atomic absorption spectrometry? - ✔✔Flame & graphite furnace is a
quantatative measurement of elements
✔✔Sodium sulfide turns to what color? - ✔✔Black
✔✔Sodium Rhodizinate turns to what color? - ✔✔Pink, red, yellow
✔✔What is a composite sample? - ✔✔A single sample made up of individual sub
samples
✔✔What is scope of service? - ✔✔Proposal to conduct a lead based paint inspection
✔✔3 Sources of civil legal liability are? - ✔✔Statutory law, Administrative law, Common
law
✔✔What does MSDS stand for? - ✔✔Material safety data sheet
✔✔What is target housing? - ✔✔All housing built before 1978 except those built for the
elderly & disability or studios.
✔✔Clearance on all projects involving abatement must be done by a? - ✔✔Certified risk
assessor or a certified lead-based paint inspector.
✔✔Before beginning the clearance examination, wait at least ________ after the hazard
control, renovation, or maintenance work is finished, - ✔✔1 hour
, ✔✔Conduct a visual assessment of the clearance area to determine if there is any? -
✔✔Deteriorated paint, visible settled dust, paint chips, or paint related debris in the
interior or around the exterior of building.
✔✔After the clearance area has passed visual assessment, conduct clearance dust-
wipe sampling of? - ✔✔Floors, Interior window sills and window troughs.
✔✔On compliance with disclosure and notification regulations if the housing is receiving
federal assistance, current residents must be notified within _____ days of receipt by
the owner, of the scope and results of lead hazard control work, including the results of
clearance examinations. - ✔✔15 days
✔✔Clearance refers generally to? - ✔✔Combined visual and quantitative environmental
evaluation procedures used to determine that no lead-based paint hazards remain in
the area being cleared after lead hazard controls or paint-disturbing renovation or
maintenance have been done.
✔✔The primary purpose of the standard clearance examination is to? - ✔✔Determine
whether the clearance area is safe for occupancy or for entry by unprotected workers.
✔✔The standard Federal clearance examination has 4 main phases what are they? -
✔✔A visual assessment, collection and analysis of dust samples, Interpretation of dust
sampling results, preparation and signing of the clearance report.
✔✔HUD regulations do not require clearance if the total amount of paint disturbed by
non-abatement work is no more than a small or minimal amount. This amount is called
de minimis area or de miminis amount, the de minimis areas are areas up to? - ✔✔20
square feet on exterior surfaces, 2 square feet in any one interior room or space, 10%
of the total surface area on an interior or exterior type of component with a small surface
area such as windowsills, baseboards and trim.
✔✔Clearance examinations are regulated by? - ✔✔EPA, HUD
✔✔Clearance dust sampling should be performed no sooner than? - ✔✔1 hour after
final cleanup to permit airborne leaded-dust to settle.
✔✔ug/g - ✔✔microgram per gram
✔✔ug/ft2 - ✔✔microgram per foot square (dust sampling)
✔✔mg/cm2 - ✔✔milligrams per centimeter squared (XRF)
✔✔ug/dL - ✔✔microgram per deci-liter
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Major use for lead? - ✔✔Storage batteries
✔✔Amount of lead in water depends on? - ✔✔Age, corosiveness, time lead has been in
water
✔✔What is a building component type? - ✔✔Paint, stain, varnish, shelack
✔✔What is the substrate? - ✔✔Material under paint, ex. brick, cement, drywall, wood,
metal
✔✔What does RMD stand for? - ✔✔Radiation monitor device
✔✔What are the conditions for abreviation of testing? - ✔✔1st 5 room equivalent
component + substrates positive, you can assume rest of room is postive.
✔✔Paint chip samples should be done if tests are? - ✔✔Inconclusive
✔✔Time and motion analysis means? - ✔✔How long it takes to do job
✔✔Clearance sampling should be how long after a final clean? - ✔✔1 hour
✔✔Areas to take dust swipe samples? - ✔✔Near hazard areas where treatment was
done, nearby high traffic areas, other areas selected by inspector
✔✔Do disposable wipes need to contain aloe? - ✔✔no
✔✔Centrifuges must be what size? - ✔✔50 ml
✔✔How many wipes for a composite sample? - ✔✔2-4
✔✔How many disposable wipes can you put in a container for testing? - ✔✔4
✔✔On spiked samples blind analysis should fall between? - ✔✔80-120
✔✔True or false - If composite sample is used, a minimum of 3 composite dust samples
should be collected for floor, sills & trough - ✔✔True
✔✔Parties should maintain records for abatement, interim control, risk assessment,
inspection and clearance test for how many years? - ✔✔3 years
,✔✔Do disposable wipes have to be 2" x 2"? - ✔✔No
✔✔Should disposable wipes be free of lead? - ✔✔Yes
✔✔What does VOC stand for? - ✔✔Volatile organic compound
✔✔Soil samples should be taken how many feet apart? - ✔✔2ft - 6ft apart
✔✔Sources of lead in soil? - ✔✔Chipped paint, gas
✔✔Sample tests on soil should be how deep? - ✔✔1/2" inch
✔✔Soil replacement should be how deep? - ✔✔6" deep
✔✔Soil is always collected as composite samples - ✔✔
✔✔What is AAS atomic absorption spectrometry? - ✔✔Flame & graphite furnace is a
quantatative measurement of elements
✔✔Sodium sulfide turns to what color? - ✔✔Black
✔✔Sodium Rhodizinate turns to what color? - ✔✔Pink, red, yellow
✔✔What is a composite sample? - ✔✔A single sample made up of individual sub
samples
✔✔What is scope of service? - ✔✔Proposal to conduct a lead based paint inspection
✔✔3 Sources of civil legal liability are? - ✔✔Statutory law, Administrative law, Common
law
✔✔What does MSDS stand for? - ✔✔Material safety data sheet
✔✔What is target housing? - ✔✔All housing built before 1978 except those built for the
elderly & disability or studios.
✔✔Clearance on all projects involving abatement must be done by a? - ✔✔Certified risk
assessor or a certified lead-based paint inspector.
✔✔Before beginning the clearance examination, wait at least ________ after the hazard
control, renovation, or maintenance work is finished, - ✔✔1 hour
, ✔✔Conduct a visual assessment of the clearance area to determine if there is any? -
✔✔Deteriorated paint, visible settled dust, paint chips, or paint related debris in the
interior or around the exterior of building.
✔✔After the clearance area has passed visual assessment, conduct clearance dust-
wipe sampling of? - ✔✔Floors, Interior window sills and window troughs.
✔✔On compliance with disclosure and notification regulations if the housing is receiving
federal assistance, current residents must be notified within _____ days of receipt by
the owner, of the scope and results of lead hazard control work, including the results of
clearance examinations. - ✔✔15 days
✔✔Clearance refers generally to? - ✔✔Combined visual and quantitative environmental
evaluation procedures used to determine that no lead-based paint hazards remain in
the area being cleared after lead hazard controls or paint-disturbing renovation or
maintenance have been done.
✔✔The primary purpose of the standard clearance examination is to? - ✔✔Determine
whether the clearance area is safe for occupancy or for entry by unprotected workers.
✔✔The standard Federal clearance examination has 4 main phases what are they? -
✔✔A visual assessment, collection and analysis of dust samples, Interpretation of dust
sampling results, preparation and signing of the clearance report.
✔✔HUD regulations do not require clearance if the total amount of paint disturbed by
non-abatement work is no more than a small or minimal amount. This amount is called
de minimis area or de miminis amount, the de minimis areas are areas up to? - ✔✔20
square feet on exterior surfaces, 2 square feet in any one interior room or space, 10%
of the total surface area on an interior or exterior type of component with a small surface
area such as windowsills, baseboards and trim.
✔✔Clearance examinations are regulated by? - ✔✔EPA, HUD
✔✔Clearance dust sampling should be performed no sooner than? - ✔✔1 hour after
final cleanup to permit airborne leaded-dust to settle.
✔✔ug/g - ✔✔microgram per gram
✔✔ug/ft2 - ✔✔microgram per foot square (dust sampling)
✔✔mg/cm2 - ✔✔milligrams per centimeter squared (XRF)
✔✔ug/dL - ✔✔microgram per deci-liter
