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Who Can Test or Fix Your Home?
Test Your Home for Radon -- It's Easy and Inexpensive
The U.S. Surgeon General and EPA recommend that all homes be tested. Read about radon health risks.
Fix your home if you have a radon level of 4 pCi/L or more. You can test your home yourself or hire a professional.
Radon test kit coupons are available from the
National Safety Council
(or call 1-800-SOS-RADON). Some home improvement stores sell test
kits.
- Read "A Citizen's Guide To Radon"
- Also read the: "Home Buyer's and Seller's Guide to Radon"
Get the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view PDF files linked on this page. See EPA's PDF page to learn more.
If you are interested in finding a qualified radon service professional to test or mitigate your home, or you need to purchase or have questions about a radon measurement device, you should:
- Contact your State
Radon Contact (this link will take you to our Where You Live pages, just click on your state
to get contact information) to determine what are, or whether there are, requirements associated with providing radon measurement and or radon
mitigations/reductions in your State. Some States maintain lists of
contractors available in their state or they have proficiency programs or
requirements of their own.
- Contact one or both of the two privately-run national radon programs (listed below alphabetically) who are offering proficiency listing/accreditation/certification in radon testing and mitigation. (Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government.)
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)
National Radon Proficiency Program
Toll Free: (800) 269-4174 or (828) 890-4117
Fax: (828) 890-4161
Website: www.neha-nrpp.org/
E-Mail Address: angel@neha-nrpp.orgThe National Radon Safety Board (NRSB)NEHA-NRPP Administrative Office
P.O. Box 2109
Fletcher, NC 28732
Toll Free: (866) 329-3474
Fax: (914) 345-1169
WebSite: www.nrsb.org
E-mail Address: info@NRSB.orgThe National Radon Safety Board (NRSB)
14 Hayes Street
Elmsford, NY 10523
Please Note: EPA-issued Radon Measurement (RMP) and Mitigation (RCP) photo-identification cards, ANY item with EPA's logo or name, listing letters and identification numbers have not been valid since EPA closed its proficiency program in October 1998. Consequently, persons and companies should not represent themselves, their products or their services as "EPA Listed" or "EPA Approved" or "Meets EPA Requirements" or otherwise imply an EPA sanction. Consumers are encouraged to contact their State radon office (see our state contact list at www.epa.gov/iaq/whereyoulive.html just click on your state) for additional information or if you have a complaint/question.
After the close of EPA's National Radon Proficiency Program (RPP) in 1998, there were requests that EPA offer some form of recognition of the two existing non-Federal radon proficiency programs. EPA offered a one-time acknowledgment to both of the existing non-Federal national radon proficiency programs (The National Radon Safety Board (NRSB) and The National Environmental Health Association's (NEHA) National Radon Proficiency Program). This official acknowledgement ran through March 30, 2001 to December 31, 2002. EPA continues to encourage States, industry and consumers to work together to identify those elements that would improve non-Federal radon proficiency programs and go beyond EPA's former voluntary RPP. These improved elements should then be adopted as standards of practice.
We continue to make available some of the background materials that were part
of the EPA's former National Radon Proficiency Program (RPP), specifically:
- the old RPP Handbook (PDF, 131 pp, 1.2MB)
- Quality Assurance Document (PDF, 124 pp, 398KB)
- device protocols (HTML version) and Home Protocols (PDF, 47 pp, 720KB)
- Descriptions of each of the 15 radon measurement methods
(HTML version) that have been identified by the U.S. EPA and were used in EPA's former RPP. The descriptions are divided into methods
appropriate for measuring radon gas and radon decay products
See also our other radon publications
If you have further questions about Radon, please call your State Radon Contact (just click on your state) or the National Radon Information Line at:
1-800-SOS-RADON
[1 (800) 767-7236]