Kathy Lauckner (Harry Reid Center) was an invited speaker at the 14th annual Tri-Regional Lead Program Conference sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 10, in Portland, Ore., in September. She has been involved in the actions to prevent lead poisoning since 1992. She now is promoting a cooperative blending of EPA, U.S. Housing and Urban Development, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations to eliminate the redundancy in worker safety curriculum.