National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition
Action Letter Archive 2026
This page archives the action letters sent by the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition in a single location, organized by date.
The National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition is a broad, voluntary coalition working to improve housing conditions nationwide through education and outreach to key national stakeholders and federal public decision-makers. The coalition promotes policies for safe and healthy housing in the United States with special emphasis on those who are disproportionately impacted.
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2026
February 12 (Draft): Letters to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Restore January 2024 Soil Protections for Superfund Sites
Extract: The National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition (NSHHC) is writing you regarding your October 16, 2025, directive updating the Office of Land and Emergency Management’s (OLEM) residential soil lead guidance. We urge EPA to reconsider these factors and restore the January 2024 protections.
Your October directive reversed a January 2024 update to the guidance and, in some cases, set levels that are even less protective than those in place prior to January 2024. This directive weakens long-standing, science-based protections for children, creates inconsistency with federal and state public health standards, and is likely to increase lead exposure risks for families living on and near contaminated sites.
We have three main concerns with the October 2025 guidance:
First, the target level for children’s blood lead should be 3.5 micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL), not 5. This target level is important to setting preliminary remediation goals (PRGs) for the cleanup of lead-contaminated residential properties.
The January 2024 guidance used 3.5 µg/dL as the target blood lead level (BLL) where multiple sources of lead contamination are present and 5 µg/dL if the only source was contaminated soil… [more]
Latest page update: January 30, 2026.