EPA Seeks To Update List of Drinking Water Contaminants

Clean water seems like a good thing: People certainly pay through the nose for bottled water. The question is "what is clean water anyway?" With tens of thousands of artificial chemicals in our environment, in addition to things that nature cooks up, water obviously can't be tested for every little thing. The EPA is now working on updating that list of things that make your good water "bad." This may have an impact, not only on the quality of drinking water, but the price as well.

Request for nominations of drinking water contaminants for the contaminant candidate list
16.oct.06
[Federal Register: (Volume 71, Number 199)]
[Page 60704-60708]
[DOCID:fr16oc06-35]
[EPA-HQ-OW-2005-0039; FRL-8231-3]
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting
Nominations of chemical and microbial contaminants for possible inclusion in the
third drinking water Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 3). EPA is also
requesting information that shows the nominated contaminant may have an
adverse health effect on people and the contaminant occurs or is likely
to occur in public water systems.
DATES: Nominations must be received on or before December 15, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Submit your nominations to the CCL3 Nominations Web site
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/ccl/ccl3.html by following the on-line
instructions for submitting nominations or mail to CCL Nominations,
Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code: 4607M, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information contact the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at (800) 426-4791 or e-mail:
hotline-sdwa@epa.gov. For technical questions about this notice contact Clifton
Townsend, Standards and Risk Management Division, Office of Ground
Water and Drinking Water, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
564-1576; e-mail address: townsend.clifton@epa.gov. For technical
inquiries regarding EPA's CCL 3 Nominations Web site, please contact
Zeno Bain at (202) 564-5970 or e-mail: bain.zeno@epa.gov.