[CPEO-MEF] EPA adds perchlorate to contaminant candidate list

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Yesterday's (February 24, 2005) Federal Register contains a notice that
adds perchlorate, as well as fifty other substances, to EPA's
contaminant candidate list under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

This is a necessary step in the process required to establish a federal
Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL), or drinking water standard, for
perchlorate. There are many other steps required.

Even if EPA makes perchlorate a priority among the nearly 100 other
compounds on the list, it would take at least a year-and-a-half, under
standard procedures, to publish a proposed MCL, and the process of
taking and responding to comments would take an additional year.


See
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-3527.htm



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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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