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Sensible Guide for Healthier School Renovations

This booklet provides school administrators, facility managers, staff and the school community with an overview of how to avoid key environmental health hazards and ways to minimize children’s exposures as they prepare for and undergo renovations. School renovations should be consistent with applicable local, state and federal environmental health regulations.

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