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RSA 485:16-a · Drinking Water Standards and Notification

Title
L: WATER MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION
Chapter
485 · NEW HAMPSHIRE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT
Status
current
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485:16-a Drinking Water Standards and Notification. –

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The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of health and human services, shall adopt primary and secondary drinking water standards pursuant to RSA 485:3, and ambient groundwater quality standards pursuant to RSA 485-C:6, applicable to MTBE. The commissioner shall not commence rulemaking for these standards until after the department has reviewed the scientific record on the risks posed by the presence of MTBE in drinking water supplies. Such review shall be completed at the earliest possible date, but no later than January 1, 2000. The commissioner shall commence rulemaking no later than January 1, 2000.

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Any public water system delivering water with greater than 5 parts per billion of MTBE shall notify each customer of the MTBE content. Source. 1999, 313:2, eff. July 16, 1999.

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Source note

Source. 1999, 313:2, eff. July 16, 1999.

Source history

  • 1999, 313:2, eff. July 16, 1999

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