surface water treatment rule

• Notice of a Public Meeting on Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule: Initiate Regulatory Review-Cryptosporidium Analytical Method Improvements and Update on Source Water Monitoring

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hosting a public meeting on December 7, 2011, to discuss the analytical methods for Cryptosporidium and the source water monitoring data from the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2 rule). This is the first of at least two meetings on the LT2 rule that EPA will host. At the December meeting, EPA will present its evaluation of the LT2 rule Cryptosporidium source water monitoring data, new information on the performance of Method 1623, as well as the latest information on Method 1623 improvements. A public meeting on the LT2 rule uncovered finished water reservoir requirement will occur in Spring 2012. Matters related to the uncovered finished water reservoir requirement will not be discussed at the December 7, 2011, meeting....

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 71560, November 18, 2011
• Notices
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule: Public Meeting on Monitoring Data Analysis, Occurrence Forecasts, Binning, and the Microbial Toolbox

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hosting a public meeting on November 15, 2012, concerning monitoring, binning and microbial toolbox information as part of the regulatory review of the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2 rule). At this meeting, EPA plans to discuss and solicit public input on data and information related to several topics. The first topic is the results of the first round of LT2 Cryptosporidium monitoring that are used to determine which one of the four categories (i.e., bins) a public drinking water system (PWS) should be placed. The second topic is the implications of predicted occurrence and bin category placement that may result from a second round of Cryptosporidium monitoring using the existing or enhanced analytical methods. Th...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 57545, September 18, 2012
• Proposed rules
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule: Uncovered Finished Water Reservoirs; Public Meeting

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 12227, February 29, 2012
• Proposed rules
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Awwa Statement On Epa Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproduct Rule and Long-Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Thursday, Dec. 15, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed the Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproduct Rule and the Long-Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule. These rules seek to improve the quality of drinking water in a manner that maintains strong protection against waterborne disease while controlling the formation of disinfection byproducts. The American Water Works Association (AWWA) was a participant on a diverse federal advisory committee that provided input during the rule's development. Jack Hoffbuhr, executive director of AWWA, issued the following statement concerning today's signing: Today's signing represents the latest step in an extensive stakeholder-based rulemaking process. AWWA is hopeful that i...

• U.S. Newswire
• December 15, 2005

• Water supply: National primary drinking water regulations— Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule,

• FR, January 05, 2006
• Rules
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Water supply: National primary drinking water regulations— Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule,

• FR, August 11, 2003
• Proposed rules
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Water supply: National primary drinking water regulations— Long Term Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, Surface Water Treatment Rule, etc.; corrections and clarification,

• FR, March 02, 2004
• Proposed rules
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Public Water System Supervision Program Revision for the State of Utah

In accordance with the provisions of Section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), 42 U.S.C. 300g-2, public notice is hereby given that the state of Utah has revised its Public Water System Supervision (PWSS) Program by adopting regulations for the Lead and Copper Short Term Revisions, Long Term 1 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule and the Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule that correspond to the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR). The EPA has completed its review of these revisions in accordance with the SDWA and proposes to approve them. Today's approval action does not extend to public water systems in Indian country as defined in 18 U.S.C. 1151. Please see Supplementary Information, ...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 58132, September 19, 2012
• Notices
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Water supply: National primary drinking water regulations— Long Term I Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, etc.; corrections and clarification,

• FR, June 29, 2004
• Rules
• Environmental Protection Agency

• Tentative Approval and Solicitation of Request for a Public Hearing for Public Water System Supervision Program Revision for the Commonwealth of Virginia

Notice is hereby given in accordance with the provision of section 1413 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, and the requirements governing the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Implementation, 40 CFR part 142, that the Commonwealth of Virginia is revising its approved Public Water System Supervision Program. The Commonwealth has adopted the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule and the Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule which will provide for better public health protection by reducing potential cancer and reproductive and developmental health risks from disinfection byproducts in drinking water and by reducing illness linked with Cryptosporidium and other pathogenic microorganisms in drinking water. EPA has determined that these revisio...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 13125, March 05, 2012
• Notices
• Environmental Protection Agency