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RCAC staff member joins EPA's Arsenic Small Systems Work Group
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water invited Stevan Palmer, RCAC rural development specialist II, to participate on the arsenic small systems work group. Due to the large number of small water systems that have yet to comply with the 2006 revisions to the Arsenic Rule, Congress has directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to provide a report with input and recommendations.
Based on the work group’s input, EPA will prepare a report on how to make alternative compliance methods more accessible to water systems and on alternative affordability criteria. The EPA report is due June 20.The work group will research barriers to the use of point-of-use and point-of-entry treatment units, package plants (including water bottled by the public water system); modular units; and alternative affordability criteria that give extra weight to small, rural and lower income communities.
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