California is an EPA-administered state, which means lead-safe firm certification for California contractors is issued directly by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Any California firm paid to disturb paint in pre-1978 housing or child-occupied facilities must hold this certification before advertising for or performing the work.
Because California does not run its own program, we prepare and submit your application in EPA’s CDX for you. The all-in cost in California is $429: our $129 service fee plus the EPA’s $300 filing fee, and the certificate is valid for five years.
We file for California contractors statewide, including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento.
We also file in all EPA-administered states. Read the full guide →
$429 all in: our $129 service fee plus the $300 U.S. EPA filing fee. Both are itemized at checkout, and the government fee is never marked up.
Valid 5 years. We send a renewal reminder before it lapses.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issues it. California is EPA-administered, so there is no separate California state program; the application goes through EPA's CDX system.
Any firm paid to disturb more than six square feet of interior paint, or more than twenty square feet of exterior paint, in California housing or child-occupied facilities built before 1978, including crews working from Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and Sacramento. That covers general contractors, painters, plumbers, electricians, HVAC and window companies, and property managers.
Processing time is set by U.S. EPA; not guaranteed. We track your California application to issuance and email your certificate plus your Lead-Safe Certified Firm logo.
A firm certification is issued per program, so crews that cross a state line into a state-run program need that state’s credential too. See the fee for every state we file → · EPA Lead-Safe certification guide →
$429 all in · valid 5 years · no SSN required.
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