Announcement of Stakeholders Meeting on the Drinking Water Contaminant Identification and Selection Process, and the 6-Year Review of All Existing National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, as Required by the Safe Drinking Water Act, as Amended in 1996

Zusammenfassung

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be holding a two-day public meeting on November 16 and 17, 1999. This meeting will encompass two Safe Drinking Water Act requirements that have similar goals. Therefore, EPA has combined the meetings in order to increase meeting participation and make attendance as convenient as possible for stakeholders. The purpose of this meeting is to have a dialogue with stakeholders, and the public at large, on the contaminant identification and selection process (November 16), and to discuss the process to perform a 6-Year Review of all National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWRs) (November 17). For the contaminant selection process, EPA will discuss and seek input on: The draft research strategy EPA has formulated in order to fill data gaps for contaminants identified on the Agency's first drinking water contaminant candidate list (CCL); considerations in making regulatory determinations from the CCL, and the process for developing future CCLs. The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), as amended in1996, requires EPA to establish a list of contaminants, and revise it every five years, to aid in priority setting for the Agency's drinking water