The legalities of lead. (The Beat).
The nation's largest lead disclosure agreement to date has been announced by the Denver Denver, city (1990 pop. 467,610), alt. 5,280 ft (1,609 m), state capital, coextensive with Denver co., N central Colo., on a plateau at the foot of the Front Range of the Rocky Mts., along the South Platte River where Cherry Creek meets it; inc. 1861. , Colorado-based Apartment Investment and Management Company, one of the largest property management firms in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , The company will test 130,000 of its apartments in 47 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , and remove any lead paint found. Lead paint is considered one of the primary routes of lead poisoning lead poisoning or plumbism (plŭm`bĭz'əm), intoxication of the system by organic compounds containing lead. of children in the United States. The company admitted that it had failed to warn some tenants that their home could contain potentially hazardous lead paint, an offense under the Residential Lead Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992. The company will also pay a fine of $129,580.
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