EPA Faces White House Push For LCR Despite Pipe Replacement Questions

December 7, 2018
EPA water office staff are facing calls from President Donald Trump and acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to quickly propose revisions to the drinking water lead and copper rule (LCR) even as they continue to wrestle with how to reconcile calls from advisers for full lead service line (LSL) replacement with questions about costs and legal authority to do so. The president has said the rule should be proposed “on a short timeline,” Lee Forsgren, the politically appointed deputy water...


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