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Impact of EPA Drinking Water Stage 2 Disinfectant and Disinfectant ...

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Amendments to Safe <strong>Drinking</strong> <strong>Water</strong> Act <strong>of</strong> 19744• Amendments to the SDWA in 1996 require<strong>EPA</strong> to develop rules to balance the risksbetween microbial pathogens <strong>and</strong> disinfectionbyproducts (DBPs).• The <strong>Stage</strong> 1 <strong>Disinfectant</strong>s <strong>and</strong> DisinfectionByproducts Rule <strong>and</strong> Interim Enhanced Surface<strong>Water</strong> Treatment Rule, promulgated inDecember 1998, were the first phase in arulemaking strategy required by Congress aspart <strong>of</strong> the 1996 Amendments to the Safe<strong>Drinking</strong> <strong>Water</strong> Act.Disinfection

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