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Re: COURT UPHOLDS RADIONUCLIDES RULE



The opinion can be found at this link. 

http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200302/01-1028a.pdf



Bill Field

bill-field@uiowa.edu

> The following came to me via Environmental Business Journal.  Does

> anyone in RadSafeLand have more info on this?

> 

> Susan Gawarecki

> 

> COURT UPHOLDS RADIONUCLIDES RULE

> 

> The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling upholding EPA’s

> regulation setting a permissible exposure level (PEL) for radionuclides

> in drinking water. In issuing the ruling, the court rejected arguments

> by the petitioners—two trade associations and several municipal water

> agencies—to the effect that EPA’s radionuclides rule was not based on

> the best available science. The rule requires public drinking-water

> systems to control levels of radium-226, radium-228, and certain

> beta/photon emitters in drinking water. It also regulates uranium in

> drinking water for the first time.

> -- 

> .....................................................

> Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director

> Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee

> 102 Robertsville Road, Suite B, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

> Toll free 888-770-3073 ~ www.local-oversight.org

> .....................................................

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