EPA Seeks Drinking Water Guidance On Emerging Contaminant Process

摘要

EPA's Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water is asking its advisors for assistance in improving the process for regulating and monitoring emerging contaminants under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), after state and municipal groups expressed concerns about the way drinking water contamination risks are communicated. During the Dec. 6-7 meeting of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC) in Washington, D.C., EPA officials asked the panel to form an ad-hoc subcommittee to consider how the agency addresses emerging contaminants, including the issuance of non-binding health advisories (HAs) that are sometimes used as default cleanup levels when the agency has not set binding standards.