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Regulating Lead: An Update
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1989.tb03236.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , task force , tap water , lead (geology) , task (project management) , administration (probate law) , business , management , environmental protection , political science , public administration , law , operations research , engineering , environmental science , environmental engineering , sociology , economics , social science , geomorphology , geology
Jeanne Briskin is special assistant to Michael Cook, director of the US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Drinking Water. She directs a special task force developing regulations on lead in drinking water. After proposing a corrosion by‐products rule last August that called for a lead standard to be monitored at distribution system entry points and a treatment technique triggered by certain tap‐sample action levels, the agency recently indicated it is considering promulgating a final rule calling for a lead standard at the tap. J.B. McCraw, staff writer for the AWWA Washington Affairs Office, spoke with Briskin about this controversial topic during an interview conducted May 23 at agency headquarters in Washington, D.C.