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ARSENIC WATER STANDARD CHALLENGED BY WOOD PRESERVERS
FAIRFAX, Virginia, March 2, 2001, (ENS) - The American Wood Preservers
Institute (AWPI) filed a legal challenge in federal court Thursday to
overturn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new arsenic
regulation, one of the last acts of the departing Clinton
Administration.
If it stands, the new regulation would impose new costs on many public
water consumers and unnecessary new burdens on the business community,
AWPI said. The rule was published in the Federal Register on January
22, despite congressional action aimed at delaying or altering the
regulation.
The EPA's regulation would reduce by 80 percent the level of arsenic
permitted in drinking water, even though the new standard is below
levels that may occur naturally in water supplies.
Senator Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, has filed a bill (S
223) to overturn the regulation as "financially devastating in New
Mexico and lacking a foundation of sound science." The Western
Governors Conference also opposes the new regulation.
"The EPA acknowledges that it based its work on highly criticized, 30
year old epidemiological studies from Taiwan that it analyzed using a
60 year old linear extrapolation method - a method that does not
recognize any of the recent, accepted advances in biology and risk
assessment," said Scott Ramminger, president of AWPI. "The EPA's
midnight regulation was clearly not based on the best available
science, as required by law."
AWPI is the national trade association representing the pressure
treated wood industry in the United States. Pressure treated wood is
the major source of non-natural arsenic contamination in U.S. drinking
water.
Ramminger said AWPI took legal action because the drinking water
standard is a benchmark applied to many other exposures. He pointed
out that, in addition to its impact on municipalities and water
utilities, the regulation affects most industries that use or process
arsenic containing materials, and that includes many AWPI members.
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