Use these resources to help you comply with the laws and regulations that apply to construction businesses and the construction industry.

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• Energy Efficiency Standards

• Federal Contracting

• Hazardous Materials

• HUD Regulations

• Stormwater

• Taxes

Energy Efficiency Standards

• Appliances and Commercial Equipment Standards Program
  Provides manufactures with information about the laws, regulations, and standards.

• Building Energy Codes: Compliance Tools
  Offers software tools from the Department of Energy (DOE), which provides support for various energy codes. These compliance tools simplify the compliance process. You may demonstrate compliance for both residential and commercial buildings using these software tools or pencil and paper.

• Building Energy Codes Resource Center
  Provides users with information about energy codes and beyond-code technologies. Resources are available in a variety of different media types, including articles, graphics, online tools, presentations, and instructional videos.

• ENERGY STAR Business Improvement Guide
  Gives strategies, tools, professional assistance, and recognition opportunities to help you meet your goals and contribute to ENERGY STAR's nationwide challenge to improve the energy efficiency of facilities by 10 percent or more.

• Energy Efficiency Claims and Labeling Requirements
  Lists current energy efficiency labeling requirements for consumer products issued pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.

• Workplace Guide to Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
  Explains how to use energy in your workplace more efficiently. You can also learn how to incorporate the use of renewable energy at work for cost savings.

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Federal Contracting

• Construction Contractors' Technical Assistance Guide
  Offers a Technical Assistance Guide designed to help federal and federally-assisted construction contractors and subcontractors comply with the federal laws and regulations that prohibit discrimination in employment, and require that the contractors undertake affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunity in their workforces.

• Davis-Bacon and Related Acts
  Provides public access to Davis-Bacon information and supports the user in filling out the Report of Construction Contractor's Wage Rates (WD-10) Form.

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Hazardous Materials

• Construction Industry Compliance Assistance Center
  Offers simple explanations of environmental rules for the construction industry.

• Lead in Paint, Dust and Soil: Rules and Regulations
  Gives general information about regulations under the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act (Title X of the Toxic Substances Control Act).

• Lead-Based Paint Disclosure Rule
  Contains information on the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Action of 1992.

• Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control: Compliance Assistance
  Offers guidance and documents related to lead-based paint regulations.

• Lead Safe Housing Rule
  Identifies the requirements for notification, evaluation and reduction of Lead-Based paint hazards in federally-owned residential property and housing receiving federal assistance. 

• OSHA eTool: Asbestos Advisor
  Offers an Asbestos Expert Advisor, an interactive compliance assistance tool. Once installed, this computer program from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) will interview the user about their buildings and worksites, and the kinds of tasks workers perform there. It will produce guidance on how the Asbestos standard may apply to those buildings and that work. Guidance provided depends on your answers.

• OSHA eTool: Lead in Construction Advisor (downloadable)
  Gives a downloadable version of the interactive expert Lead in Construction Advisor, which helps users, especially small businesses, to understand OSHA's Lead in Construction standards.

• Pre-Renovation Lead Information Rule
  Provides information about the 406(b) rule concerning renovating housing with lead-based paint.

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HUD Regulations

• Manufactured Housing Guide
  Details how to comply on with federal manufactured home construction and safety standards.

• HUD Minimum Property Standards
  Supplies information on minimum standards for buildings constructed under Housing and Urban Development (HUD) housing programs. This includes new single family homes, multi-family housing and health care type facilities.

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Stormwater

• National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
  Explains the EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater program, which requires construction site operators engaged in clearing, grading, and excavating activities that disturb one acre or more, including smaller sites in a larger common plan of development or sale, to obtain coverage under an NPDES permit for their stormwater discharges.

• Stormwater Resource Locator
  Offers resources to help companies in the construction industry know about and comply with the stormwater rules in their area.

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Taxes

• Tax Guide for Construction Businesses
  Provides access to the construction area of IRS.GOV for explanations of federal tax topics related to the construction industry, news articles and educational Internal Revenue Service (IRS) publications.

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