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Main Title Safe Drinking Water Hotline. Fiscal Year 2003, Annual Report.
CORP Author National Research Council, Washington, DC. Safe Drinking Water Committee.
Publisher Sep 2003
Year Published 2003
Stock Number PB2004-107066
Additional Subjects Potable water ; Consumer protection ; Drinking water ; US EPA ; Health hazards ; Real time operations ; Regulations ; Standards ; Electronic mail ; Water quality ; Real time operation ; SWDA(Safe drinking water act) ; Safe drinking water hotline ; Public outreach
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NTIS  PB2004-107066 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation one CD-ROM contains 33 page document
Abstract
The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is the national law that ensures the quality of America's drinking water and furthers EPAs mission to protect human health and safeguard the environment. The Act, as amended in 1996, requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide a toll-free hotline that consumers can call to obtain accurate and real-time information about annual water quality reports and drinking water contaminants (42 U.S.C. 300g-3, Section (4)(A) and (4)(B)). The Safe Drinking Water (SDW) Hotline, operated by Booz Allen Hamilton, provides this essential public outreach service for EPA's Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW), the office that is responsible for implementing the SDWA. The Hotline also answers questions about federal drinking water regulations and standards, source water protection, and the Underground Injection Control (UIC) program. In fiscal year 2003 (FY 2003), the Hotline responded to 21,602 phone calls and 3,304 e-mail inquiries resulting in more than 31,351 questions. This is the annual report for 2003.