Sec. 9. Healthy homes
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The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control and in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, shall lead the Federal initiative to support healthy housing and eradicate housing-related health hazards by— reviewing, monitoring, and evaluating Federal housing, health, energy, and environmental programs and identifying areas of overlap and duplication that could be improved; identifying best practices and model programs, including practices and programs that link services for low-income families and services for health hazards; identifying best practices for finance products, building codes, and regulatory practices; researching training programs and work practices that can accurately assess housing-related health hazards; promoting collaboration among Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies and non-governmental organizations; and coordinating with all relevant Federal agencies.
The Secretary shall conduct a collaborative, interagency assessment of best practices for— coordinating activities relating to healthy housing; removing unnecessary barriers to interagency coordination in Federal statutes and regulations; and creating incentives in programs of the Federal Government to advance the complementary goals of improving environmental health, energy conservation, and the availability of housing. The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, and any other Federal agency that the Secretary determines is appropriate, shall conduct a detailed study of how sustainable building features in housing, such as energy efficiency, affect— the quality of the indoor environment; the prevalence of housing-related health hazards; and the health of occupants of the housing.
Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a report containing the results of the study under paragraph (1). There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.