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. The department shall adopt regulations it determines to be
necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The regulations
shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(a) The monitoring of contaminants, including the type of
contaminant, frequency and method of sampling and testing, and the
reporting of results.
(b) The monitoring of unregulated contaminants for which drinking
water standards have not been established by the department. The
requirements shall be not less stringent than those adopted pursuant
to paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Section 1445 of the federal
Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. Sec. 300j-4 (a)(2)).
Until the time that the department adopts regulations regarding the
monitoring of unregulated contaminants, the department may, by order,
require any public water system that has been shown to contain
detectable levels of any unregulated contaminants to conduct periodic
water analyses in accordance with conditions specified by the
department. The water analyses shall be reported on a quarterly basis
unless the department finds that more or less frequent analysis is
necessary.
(c) Requirements for the design, operation, and maintenance of
public water systems, including, but not limited to, waterworks
standards and the control of cross-connections, that the department
determines are necessary to obtain, treat, and distribute a reliable
and adequate supply of pure, wholesome, potable, and healthy water.
(d) Requirements for treatment, including disinfection of water
supplies.
(e) Requirements for the filtration of surface water supplies at
least as stringent as regulations promulgated pursuant to
subparagraph (C) of paragraph (7) of subsection (b) of Section 1412
of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. Sec.
300g-1 (b)(7)(C)).
(f) Requirements for notifying the public of the quality of the
water delivered to consumers.
(g) Minimum acceptable financial assurances that a public water
system shall be required to submit as a demonstration of its
capability to provide for the ongoing operation, maintenance, and
upgrading of the system, including compliance with monitoring and
treatment requirements and contingencies. For privately owned systems
not regulated by the Public Utilities Commission, the financial
assurance may be in the form of a trust fund, surety bond, letter of
credit, insurance, or other equivalent financial arrangement
acceptable to the department.
(h) Program requirements for the conduct of the public water
system program by a local health officer under a primacy delegation
from the department as set forth in this chapter. The requirements
shall include, but not be limited to, the issuance of permits,
surveillance and inspections, reporting of monitoring and compliance
data, and the taking of enforcement actions.
(i) Methods for determination of the number of persons served by a
public water system for drinking water regulatory purposes.
(j) The adoption by the State Department of Health Services, in
consultation with the State Water Resources Control Board and
representatives from operators of public water systems, of emergency
regulations for the uniform, scientific sampling, and analytical
testing protocols for oxygenates as defined in subdivision (k) of
Section 51010.5 of the Government Code.