EPA Eyes Perchlorate SDWA Suit Settlement, Seeks Input On Risk Model

September 30, 2016
EPA and environmentalists have reached an undisclosed tentative settlement in a lawsuit claiming the agency has missed Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) deadlines for a perchlorate drinking water standard, while EPA is also floating for peer review and public comment the risk model that it will use to inform such a standard. The two actions signal that EPA is inching closer to the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) long-running push for the agency to regulate the rocket fuel ingredient perchlorate...


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