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Informing regulatory decisions using national occurrence data
Author(s) -
Roberson J. Alan
Publication year - 2012
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 - 10.5942/jawwa.2012.104.0036
Subject(s) - safe drinking water act , regulatory agency , agency (philosophy) , environmental planning , business , risk analysis (engineering) , regulatory science , process (computing) , environmental health , environmental science , computer science , water quality , political science , public administration , medicine , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , biology , pathology , operating system
As part of its regulatory development process, the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is charged with selecting the appropriate contaminants to regulate. The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) lists three specific criteria for health effects, occurrence, and risk reduction that the USEPA must follow when identifying new contaminants for regulation. This article analyzes USEPA's past regulatory decisions and summarizes the underlying occurrence data used to support those decisions. This article also summarizes the occurrence data that will be used by USEPA in its third round of regulatory determinations scheduled to be proposed sometime in 2012.