Drinking Water Meeting Includes Review of Standards for Certain Pesticides
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Wed, 22 May 2002 07:32:54 -0400
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide
Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
IN THIS EPA UPDATE:
Drinking Water Meeting Includes Review of Standards for Certain Pesticides
EPA's Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water has scheduled a public meeting on the six-year review of existing National Primary Drinking Water Regulations. The meeting will be held from 9:00 a.m. until 5:15 p.m. on May 30 at the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle, NW,Washington, DC. The meeting will review preliminary findings of the review of 69 National Primary Drinking Water Regulations that were established before 1997. Several pesticides are included in the list of chemicals under review. This review is required by the Safe Drinking Water Act. For further information see http://www.epa.gov/safewater/review.html , which includes information on the review, including the list of the 69 contaminants, a fact sheet that provides a brief summary of the review findings, and a link to a Federal Register notice published on April 17 that announces the availability of the review and provides instructions on submitting comments. The PDF version of the notice available on the Web site contains the figures and tables described in the notice. Information on the public meeting is available at:
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-WATER/2002/May/Day-20/m12685.htm .
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