IEA Radon_Reporter_April 2025

28 | APRIL 2025 INDUSTRY NEWS Across the US, state and tribal cancer control coalitions identify how to address the burden of cancer in their geographic area and develop multi-year plans to implement effective cancer control strategies. Its Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan (CCCP) serves as each state’s blueprint for advancing practices and policies that will reduce cancer risk. Since 1998, CDC’s National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (NCCCP) has provided funding, guidance, and technical assistance to support these impactful, strategic, and sustainable plans to prevent and control cancer. Although many CCCPs mention radon, few include systematic approaches to population-wide radon risk reduction. A work group of the National Radon Action Plan (NRAP) Leadership Council, which includes leaders from federal and state agencies, ALA, IEA and other nonprofit organizations, developed this list of Evidence-Based Interventions (EBIs) to supply cancer prevention leaders in every state with a checklist of radon risk reduction actions to add to their plans. The list is organized to demonstrate the interventions’ alignment with the NRAP’s goals. Evidence-Based Interventions for Preventing Radon-Induced Lung Cancer Goal Recommended Evidence-Based Interventions Build in Radon Risk Reduction Maximize risk reduction for all buildings by testing, sharing information about and reducing radon risks through repairs when building transactions occur between homeowners or between landlords and renters, or when repairs and rehabilitations and construction projects are financed. • Promote laws and policies that require radon notification, warning statements and disclosure during real estate sales and rental transactions. • Educate real estate professionals, home inspectors and builders about notification, disclosure and testing requirements. • Encourage lending entities (e.g., housing, finance, and insurance industries) to require radon testing and mitigation in all residential, educational, and commercial buildings. • Promote legislation requiring that building codes include ANSI-AARST or Appendix F radon standards. • Encourage policies and codes that require all existing buildings to be tested for radon and mitigated as needed. • Promote radon testing requirements for schools and childcare settings. Support Radon Risk Reduction Focus on the critical need for increasing access to government-backed and other sources of housing financing, identifying new funding sources and help for states and tribes to fund radon controls in all buildings, and directing cancer prevention resources toward radon risk reduction. • Provide or secure funding to offset the cost of radon mitigation in low wealth communities. • Promote use of Community Development Block Grants to support radon testing and mitigation in low wealth communities. • Educate mortgage lenders and property owners about available funding sources for radon services. Collaborate with cities and housing departments to develop initiatives that provide financial assistance for radon testing and mitigation. • Provide grants or loans to community-based organizations providing low cost/no cost radon mitigation in low wealth communities. • Promote radon training and certification to home rehabilitation and repair service providers. Build Capacity to Test and Mitigate Using Professional Radon Services Spread recognition of the standards and facilitate identification of a qualified workforce by aligning current credentialing approaches to one quality standard. • Support policies to require radon testing and mitigation be conducted in accordance with the consensus radon standards. • Promote policies to require radon testing and mitigation be done by professionals certified by an EPA-recognized proficiency program. • Educate mortgage lenders, home inspectors, housing providers and the public about the availability of certified measurement and mitigation professionals. Increase Awareness of Radon Risk and Control Strategies Address historic inequities in knowledge of radon risk and opportunities for risk reduction through increased engagement of intermediaries with responsibility for protecting constituents’ health in homes, workplaces, schools, and childcare. • Partner with home inspectors and real estate agents to educate clients regarding benefits of radon testing and mitigation. • Educate healthcare providers about radon- induced lung cancer and the importance of testing and mitigation in lung cancer prevention. • Distribute informational radon materials to healthcare providers and lung cancer screening centers to share with lung cancer patients and families. • Develop and disseminate culturally tailored resources on radon risk and control strategies.