Notice of Tentative Approval and Solicitation of Request for a Public Hearing for Public Water System Supervision Program Revision for the Commonwealth of Virginia

Resumen

Notice is hereby given in accordance with the provision of section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act as amended, and the rules governing National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Implementation that the Commonwealth of Virginia is revising its approved Public Water System Supervision Program. Specifically, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) has adopted the Lead and Copper Rule Minor Revisions to streamline and reduce reporting burden, a Public Notification Rule for public water systems to notify their customers when they violate EPA or Commonwealth drinking water standards, a Radionuclides Rule to establish a new maximum contaminant level for uranium and revise monitoring requirements, and a Filter Backwash Recycling Rule to institute changes to the return of recycle flows to a plant's treatment process that may otherwise compromise microbial control. EPA has determined that these revisions are no less stringent than the corresponding Federal regulations aside from one omission in the Commonwealth's Public Notification Rule of a procedural requirement found in 40 CFR Part 141. 40 CFR 141.201(c)(2) provides that when a public water system has a violation in a portion of the