[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: EPA withdraws Non-regulation determination

[Lenny Siegel]

EPA still may limit rocket fuel in drinking water

By DINA CAPPIELLO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA)
January 8, 2009

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a second 
look at its decision not to limit the amount of a toxic rocket fuel 
ingredient allowed in drinking water.

Late last year, the agency proposed not setting a drinking water 
standard for perchlorate, which has been found in at least 395 sites in 
35 states at levels high enough to interfere with thyroid function and 
pose developmental problems in humans.

At the time, the EPA said setting a standard would do little to reduce 
risks to public health.

The agency said Thursday it would postpone making a final decision until 
the National Academy of Sciences studies the matter. In the meantime, it 
recommended that levels of perchlorate in drinking water not exceed 15 
parts per billion parts of water.

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For the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1155ap_epa_rocket_fuel.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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