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Ground Water Rule marked by many unknowns
Author(s) -
Scharfenaker Mark
Publication year - 2006
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.1551-8833.2006.tb07822.x
Subject(s) - notice , rulemaking , vagueness , groundwater , agency (philosophy) , environmental planning , superfund , environmental science , environmental resource management , hazardous waste , computer science , engineering , law , political science , waste management , sociology , social science , geotechnical engineering , artificial intelligence , fuzzy logic
This article discusses the final Ground Water Rule (GWR), promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) on November 8, 2006. The article states that concerns by AWWA regulatory staff about the vagueness of the final GWR were recently spelled out in comments concerning a notice of data availability issued by USEPA earlier this year, where staff reiterated its belief that the rule as proposed failed to meet two of three Safe Drinking Water Act criteria required for a rulemaking to proceed. The article goes on to relate how USEPA defends the GWR, and explains the details of the GWR as they relate to monitoring sources for fecal indicators, and guidance documents to aid states and utilities in implementing the rule's requirements related to microbial contaminants in groundwater supplies. The article has an accompanying sidebar that discusses the five general requirements that systems that are subject to GWR requirements must comply with.