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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced on May 15th a final rule that would revise the Safe Drinking Water Act (“SDWA”) Consumer Confidence Report Rule (“CCRR”).
Consumer Confidence Reports are sometimes denominated “Annual Drinking Water Quality Reports” and provide information about local drinking water for the previous year.
The SDWA is the federal law that protects drinking water supplies. The statute requires that EPA identify drinking water contaminants. The federal agency is then required to develop rules that either set maximum permissible levels for the contaminants or establish protocols to treat the water to minimize the levels of the contaminant. All owners or operators of public water systems are required to comply with the primary (health-related) standards.
The states can be delegated the ability to enforce their requirements by the SDWA. The Arkansas Department of Health implements this program in Arkansas.
Congress amended the SDWA in 1996 to add a provision requiring all community water systems to deliver to their customers an annual water quality Consumer Confidence Report. This document provides consumers information about the quality of drinking water in an easy-to-read format. It summarizes information that the water system already collects to comply with the SDWA regulations. The information includes:
The Consumer Confidence Report is provided to the public water system’s customers on an annual basis.
EPA previously stated that it had proposed revisions to the CCRR for the purpose of:
EPA had previously noted that it sought recommendations from the National Drinking Water Advisory Council in four key areas:
A link to final CCRR can be found here.
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