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116361
. (a) The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
shall place a priority on the development of a public health goal for
arsenic in drinking water, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section
116365, sufficient to allow it to adopt the goal no later than
December 31, 2002.
(b) Commencing January 1, 2002, the department shall commence the
process for revising the existing primary drinking water standard for
arsenic, and shall adopt a revised standard for arsenic not later
than June 30, 2004. In considering the technological and economic
feasibility of compliance with the proposed standard pursuant to
paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 116365, the department
shall consider emerging technologies that may cost-effectively reduce
exposure to arsenic in drinking water.
(c) On or before December 31, 2002, the Secretary for
Environmental Protection shall develop language regarding the health
effects associated with the ingestion of arsenic in drinking water
for inclusion in consumer confidence reports pursuant to Section
116470. On and after July 1, 2003, this language shall be included in
the consumer confidence reports mailed or delivered to customers by
each water system that measures arsenic in finished water at levels
that exceed the applicable public health goal.
(d) The language developed by the Secretary for Environmental
Protection for use in consumer confidence reports to describe the
health effects associated with the ingestion of arsenic in drinking
water shall be developed in accordance with primacy requirements
described in subdivision (e) of Section 141.151 and subsections (b),
(c), and (d) of Section 142.12 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal
Regulations.
(e) Nothing in this section affects or changes the date for
implementation of a revised arsenic standard by public water systems
as required in Parts 9, 141, and 142 of Title 40 of the Code of
Federal Regulations.