federal_register: 01-10110
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| 01-10110 | National Primary Drinking Water Regulations; Arsenic and Clarifications to Compliance and New Source Contaminants Monitoring | Proposed Rule | Today's action proposes a nine-month delay to February 22, 2002 of the current May 22, 2001 effective date of the arsenic standard. This standard was promulgated by the Agency on January 22, 2001 (66 FR 6976), and previously delayed on March 23, 2001 (66 FR 16134) to May 22, 2001. On January 22, 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final standard for arsenic in drinking water that would lower the current arsenic standard from 50 parts per billion (ppb) to 10 ppb by 2006. On January 24, 2001, the Federal Register published the White House's regulatory review plan to allow members of the new administration a 60-day opportunity to review published regulations that have not taken effect. Following Federal Register promulgation of the arsenic rule, a number of concerns were raised to EPA by states, public water systems, and other stakeholders regarding the adequacy of science and the basis for national cost estimates underlying the rule. Because of the importance of the arsenic rule and the national debate surrounding it related to science and costs, EPA's Administrator publicly announced on March 20, 2001, that the Agency would take additional steps to reassess the scientific and cost issues associated with this rule and seek further public input on each of these important issues. Consistent with this commitment, EPA will request the National Academy of Sciences to convene a panel of scientific experts first, to review, the Agency's interpretation and application of arsenic research discussed and evaluated as part of the National Academy of Sciences 1999 arsenic report and, second, to review and evaluate any new arsenic research that has become available since the 1999 NAS report. At the same time, EPA will work with the National Drinking Water Advisory Council to review the assumptions and methodologies underlying the Agency's estimate of arsenic compliance costs. As its next step in this process of reviewing the January 22, 2001 arsenic rule, EPA will prepare a proposal for comment on a range of arsenic MCL options from 3ppb to 20ppb. The nine-month extension of the effective date from May 22, 2001, to February 22, 2002, for which EPA today requests comment would allow time to complete the reassessment process outlined above and to afford the public a full opportunity to provide further input on the science and costing analysis underlying EPA's promulgation of the January 22, 2001, arsenic standard. | 2001-04-23 | 2001 | 4 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/04/23/01-10110/national-primary-drinking-water-regulations-arsenic-and-clarifications-to-compliance-and-new-source | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2001-04-23/pdf/01-10110.pdf | Environmental Protection Agency | 145 | Today's action proposes a nine-month delay to February 22, 2002 of the current May 22, 2001 effective date of the arsenic standard. This standard was promulgated by the Agency on January 22, 2001 (66 FR 6976), and previously delayed on March 23, 2001... |