[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 75 (Friday, April 18, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19208-19209]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-9622]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7485-2]


Arsenic Treatment Demonstrations

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) plans to 
conduct the second phase of a demonstration program on the treatment 
(reduction and/or removal) of arsenic in drinking water. The notice on 
the first phase of the program was published on

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March 28, 2002 (67 FR 14951). The USEPA recently promulgated a standard 
that limits arsenic concentrations in drinking water to 10 ug/l. 
Through this demonstration program, the USEPA intends to identify and 
evaluate the ability of commercially available technologies and 
engineering or other approaches to cost effectively meet the new 
standard in small water systems (<10,000 customers). Through this 
notice, the USEPA is inviting the public at large, governmental and 
regulatory agencies, public health agencies, and drinking water 
utilities to identify small water utilities that may be interested in 
hosting a demonstration at their facility. Such utilities should be 
those which will require treatment to comply with the new arsenic 
standard. Unless it is desired to update the information submitted 
earlier, utilities that responded to the March 28, 2002 Notice do not 
need to resubmit. Those utilities will be included automatically in the 
second phase. This notice does not constitute a procurement.

DATES: Please submit the requested information by July 15, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Details on participation in this study can be found at: 
http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/arsenic/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Thurnau, National Risk 
Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45268, telephone 
(513) 569-7504.

    Dated: April 2, 2003.
Lee A. Mulkey,
Acting Director, National Risk Management Research Laboratory.
[FR Doc. 03-9622 Filed 4-17-03; 8:45 am]
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