UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY WSG8 Date Signed: December 20, 1976 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Application of the Safe Drinking Water Act to Persons Adding Corrosion Reducing Chemicals to Drinking Water FROM: Alan Levin, Director (signed by Alan Levin) State Programs Division Office of Water Supply (WH-550) TO: Water Division Directors Region IV requested an official interpretation of the applicability of the Safe Drinking Water Act to persons using individual on-site corrosion control treatment of public water supplies. The attached opinion from the Office of General Counsel finds that a person (defined by the SDWA to mean an individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, state or municipality) which serves at least twenty-five individuals, and which adds a corrosion-reducing chemical, or any chemical, to its drinking water supply, is a public water system which is not exempt from regulations under the SDWA. Attachment ------- |