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The regulatory context for cVOCs
Author(s) -
Roth Damon K.,
Roberson J. Alan,
Cornwell David A.
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.2012.104.0142
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , regulatory agency , agency (philosophy) , organic chemicals , environmental planning , environmental science , health protection , biochemical engineering , business , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental protection , environmental chemistry , environmental health , engineering , chemistry , political science , medicine , biology , philosophy , epistemology , paleontology , public administration
The US Environmental Protection Agency has made regulating contaminants as a group (as opposed to one compound at a time) a part of its new drinking water strategy and has identified carcinogenic volatile organic chemicals (cVOCs) as the first group to be regulated. This article summarizes the potential commonalities for a cVOC rule such as health effects, co‐occurrence, analytical methods, and/or treatment or control processes. The authors detail the physical and chemical characteristics as well as the uses of both the currently regulated VOCs and the unregulated VOCs that could potentially be included in a future cVOC rule.