Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 110 Part 2.djvu/833

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PUBLIC LAW 104-182—AUG. 6, 1996 110 STAT. 1625 and shall not be set aside by the court under that section unless the court finds that the determination is arbitrary and capricious.". (b) DISINFECTANTS AND DISINFECTION BYPRODUCTS.— The 42 USC 300g-i Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may use i^ote. the authority of section 1412(b)(5) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (as amended by this Act) to promulgate the Stage I and Stage II Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rules as proposed in volume 59, Federal Register, page 38668 (July 29, 1994). The considerations used in the development of the July 29, 1994, proposed national primary drinking water regulation on disinfectants and disinfection b3nproducts shall be treated as consistent with such section 1412(b)(5) for purposes of such Stage I and Stage II rules. (c) REVIEW OF STANDARDS.— Section 1412(b)(9) (42 U.S.C. 300g - 1(b)(9)) is amended to read as follows: "(9) REVIEW AND REVISION.—The Administrator shall, not less often than every 6 years, review and revise, as appropriate, each national primary drinking water regulation promulgated under this title. Any revision of a national primary drinking water regulation shall be promulgated in accordance with this section, except that each revision shall maintain, or provide for greater, protection of the health of persons.". SEC. 105. TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMALL SYSTEMS. Section 1412(b)(4)(E) (42 U.S.C. 300g-l(b)(4)(E)) is amended by adding at the end the following: "(ii) LIST OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMALL SYSTEMS.— The Administrator shall include in the list any technology, treatment technique, or other means that is affordable, as determined by the Administrator in consultation with the States, for smedl public water systems serving— "(I) a population of 10,000 or fewer but more than 3,300; "(II) a population of 3,300 or fewer but more than 500; and "(III) a population of 500 or fewer but more than 25; and that achieves compliance with the maximum contaminant level or treatment technique, including packaged or modular systems and point-of-entry or point-of-use treatment units. Point-of-entry and pointof-use treatment units shall be owned, controlled and maintained by the public water system or by a person under contract with the public water system to ensure proper operation and maintenance and compliance with the maximum contaminant level or treatment technique and equipped with mechanical warnings to ensure that customers are automaticeQly notified of operational problems. The Administrator shall not include in the list any point-of-use treatment technology, treatment technique, or other means to achieve compliance with a maximum contaminant level or treatment technique requirement for a microbial contaminant (or an indicator of a microbial contaminant). If the American National Standards Institute 29-194O-96 -27:QL3Part2