Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 24.10.1996

EPA's Drinking Water Contaminant Identification Method

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has scheduled a two-day public meeting on EPA's development of a Drinking Water Contaminant Identification Method. The purpose of this meeting is to have a dialogue with stakeholders and the public at large on the process for developing a sound and defensible method to identify contaminants for drinking water regulations, health advisories, toxicity research, and monitoring. The upcoming meeting is a continuation of a series of meetings with stakeholders that started in 1995 to obtain input on the Agency's Drinking Water Program. These meetings were initiated as part of the Drinking Water Program Redirection efforts to help refocus EPA's drinking water priorities and to take a risk-based approach in the allocation of program resources. Thus, the Agency seeks to ensure that the highest priority chemicals are targeted for public health protection. In recent months, EPA has been working on a Conceptual Approach for drinking water contaminant identification. At the upcoming meeting, EPA is seeking input from individual stakeholders with different perspectives on the process for the development and implementation of the Contaminant Identifi