EPA steps up plan to oversee state LCR compliance

EPA is meeting with its regional branch chiefs this month to ensure states are implementing Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) requirements, part of a stepped up effort to comply with a critical Inspector General (IG) report recommending annual reviews of state drinking water programs to prevent future contamination events, such as the Flint, MI, crisis. In a Dec. 7 letter to EPA's senior water and enforcement officials, David Ross and Susan Bodine, acting IG Charles Sheehan accepts the agency's plan...