[CPEO-MEF] "'Health goal' for perchlorate will remain"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

'Health goal' for perchlorate will remain

6 PARTS PER BILLION: The governor pressed for a review after EPA set the 
federal level of 24.5 parts.

By DAVID DANELSKI
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
April 2, 2005

California officials announced Friday that they are sticking with a 
"health goal" of 6 parts per billion for the rocket-fuel chemical 
perchlorate for drinking water -- about one-fourth the amount deemed 
safe by the Bush administration in February.

The health goal is not a binding limit but is generally used by water 
agencies to determine whether water is safe to provide to consumers. The 
state Department of Health Services is expected to set a legal limit -- 
known as a maximum contamination level, or MCL -- for perchlorate in 
drinking water within the next few months, department spokesman Robert 
Miller said.

California follows Canada and Massachusetts in choosing a more 
restrictive guideline for perchlorate than the 24.5 parts per billion 
found to be safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A spokeswoman for Lockheed Martin Corp., believed to be responsible for 
perchlorate found in some Inland drinking water, said that 6 parts per 
billion is too restrictive.

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For the entire article
http://www.pe.com/breakingnews/local/stories/PE_News_Local_D_perch02.f875.html

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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
http://www.cpeo.org


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