Environmental Protection Agency: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; Arsenic and Clarifications to Compliance and New Source Contaminants Monitoring
GAO-01-364R February 5, 2001Full Report (PDF, 4 pages) Full Report (HTML)
SummaryGAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new rule on national primary drinking water. GAO noted that (1) the rule would establish, among other things, a health-based, non-enforceable Maximum Contaminant Level Goal for arsenic of zero and an enforceable Maximum Contaminant Level for arsenic of 0.01 mg/l and (2) EPA complied with the applicable requirements in promulgating the rule. |
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