2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: "Steven B. Pollack" <Steve@EcoEsq.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 12:27:10 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: Re: [CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: No national drinking water regulation
 
The EPA press release does not give information on how to submit public
comments.

Steven B. Pollack, Attorney
Executive Director, Blue Eco Legal Council
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE:  No national drinking water regulation
> From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
> Date: Sat, October 04, 2008 2:33 am
> To: Military Environmental Forum <military@lists.cpeo.org>
> U.S. EPA News Release
> October 3, 2008
> EPA Seeks Comment on Preliminary Perchlorate Drinking Water Decision - 
> Agency Plans to Issue a Perchlorate Health Advisory
> (Washington, D.C. – Oct. 3, 2008) The U.S. Environmental Protection 
> Agency conducted extensive review of scientific data related to the 
> health effects of exposure to perchlorate from drinking water and other 
> sources and found that in more than 99 percent of public drinking water 
> systems, perchlorate was not at levels of public health concern. 
> Therefore, based on the Safe Water Drinking Act criteria, the agency 
> determined there is not a "meaningful opportunity for health risk 
> reduction" through a national drinking water regulation.
> The agency is seeking comment on its preliminary determination not to 
> regulate perchlorate in drinking water at a national level. EPA will 
> make a final determination for perchlorate after considering information 
> provided in the 30-day public comment period.
> While fewer than one percent of the drinking water sources have 
> perchlorate levels above the health reference level, EPA is committed to 
> working with states and localities to ensure public health is protected. 
> States have the right to establish and enforce drinking water standards 
> and EPA encourages state-specific situations to be addressed at the 
> local level. EPA intends to issue a health advisory at the time it 
> issues its final regulatory determination for perchlorate, to assist 
> states with their local response.
> A regulatory determination is a formal decision by EPA as to whether it 
> should initiate development of a national primary drinking water 
> regulation for a specific contaminant under the Safe Drinking Water Act. 
> EPA has drinking water regulations for more than 90 contaminants. Every 
> five years, EPA develops a Contaminant Candidate List of contaminants to 
> consider for regulation and then makes regulatory determinations on some 
> of the contaminants based on scientific information on health effects, 
> occurrence in drinking water and the opportunity for risk reduction.
> A health advisory provides technical guidance to federal, state, and 
> other public health officials on health effects, analytical methods and 
> treatment technologies associated with drinking water contamination. 
> Health advisories also contain guidance values that are concentrations 
> of a contaminant in drinking water that are likely to be without adverse 
> health effects.
> ###
> For the original release, see
> http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/6a04819f9cc11717852574d7005f93f6?OpenDocument
> See also
> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkmR-wSU9LKmVT3Iduv0DS9XPTbAD93J8US80
> and
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303280.html?hpid=moreheadlines
> -- 
> Lenny Siegel
> Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
> a project of the Pacific Studies Center
> 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
> Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
> Fax: 650/961-8918
> <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
> http://www.cpeo.org
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