Implementation Guidance for the Stage 1 Disinfectants/ Disinfection Byproducts Rule

By Environmental Protection Agency

Book Id: WPLBN0000134252
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.3 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Implementation Guidance for the Stage 1 Disinfectants/ Disinfection Byproducts Rule
Author:	Environmental Protection Agency
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Ecology, Natural resource issues, Environemtal protection
Collections:	Environmental Awareness Library Collection
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Publisher:	United States Environmental Protection Agency


Citation APA MLA Chicago Agency, E. P. (n.d.). Implementation Guidance for the Stage 1 Disinfectants/ Disinfection Byproducts Rule. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Excerpt: This document provides guidance to EPA Regions and states exercising primary enforcement responsibility under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) concerning how EPA interprets the Stage 1 Disinfection Disinfectants Byproduct Rule (Stage 1 DPBR) under SDWA. It also provides guidance to the public and the regulated community on how EPA intends to exercise its discretion in implementing the statute and regulations. This guidance is designed to implement national policy on these issues. The SDWA provisions and EPA regulations described in this document contain legally binding requirements. This document does not substitute for those provisions or regulations, nor is it a regulation itself. It does not impose legally-binding requirements on EPA, states, or the regulated community, and may not apply to a particular situation based upon the circumstances. EPA and state decisionmakers retain the discretion to adopt approaches on a case-by-case basis that differ from this guidance where appropriate. Any decisions regarding a particular facility will be made based on the applicable statutes and regulations. Therefore, interested parties are free to raise questions and objections about the appropriateness of the application of this guidance to a particular situation, and EPA will consider whether or not the recommendations or interpretations in the guidance are appropriate in that situation based on the law and regulations. EPA may change this guidance in the future.

Table of Contents
Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Section I. Rule Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A. Stage 1 DBPR Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 B. Key Dates for the Stage 1 DBPR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Section II. SDWIS Reporting and SNC Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A. Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) Reporting Under the Stage 1 DBPR . 3 A.1 Federally Reported Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 B. SNC Definitions for the Stage 1 DBPR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Section III. State Primacy Revision Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A. State Primacy Program Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 A.1 The Revision Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A.2 The Final Review Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 B. State Primacy Program Revision Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 B.1 The Extension Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 B.2 Criteria that an Extension Request Must Meet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 B.3 Conditions of the Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 C. State Primacy Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 C.1 Section I—The State Primacy Revision Checklist (40 CFR 142.10) . . . . . . . . . 10 C.2 Section II—Text of the State’s Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 C.3 Section III—Primacy Revision Crosswalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 C.4 Section IV—State Reporting and Recordkeeping Checklists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 C.5 Section V—Special Primacy Requirements (40 CFR 142.16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 C.6 Section VI—Attorney General’s Statement of Enforceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D. Guidance for Special Primacy Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 D.1 Special Primacy Requirements—Stage 1 DBPR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 D.2 Other Requirements in the Stage 1 DBPR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Section IV. Other Resources and Guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A. Technical Information Available on the Stage 1 DBPR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 B. Rule Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 C. Fact Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D. Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 E. Determining Monitoring Frequency for TTHM and HAA5 Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Appendices Appendix A Primacy Revision Crosswalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1 Appendix B Sample Extension Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1 Appendix C Statement of Principles—Guidance on Audit Law Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-1 Appendix D S