EPA Announces Plans to Revise Water Quality Criteria for Arsenic, Methylmercury, and Carbofuran

Summary

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is notifying the public of its intent to revise the current water quality criterion for arsenic and develop new criteria for methylmercury and carbofuran, with the goal of protecting human health. The EPA expects to release a peer review draft of the methylmercury criterion in the fall of 2000 and will revise the arsenic criteria in parallel with the development of a new Safe Drinking Water Standard for arsenic.