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               UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                       WASHINGTON, D.C.  20548

                                  FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                  EXPECTED AT 10:00 A.M. EDT.,
                                  JUNE 15, 1983.

                             STATEMENT OF
            HUGH J. WESSINGER, SENIOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
      RESOURCES, COMMUNITY  AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

                             BEFORE THE
            SUBCOMMITTEE ON  HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
                               OF THE

              HOUSE COMMITTEE ON  ENERGY AND COMMERCE
                                 ON

              EPA AND STATE  PROGRESS IN ENFORCING THE
        NATIONAL INTERIM PRIMARY  DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS

Mr. Chairman and members of  the Subcommittee:

     We are pleased to be here  today to discuss our March 3, 1982,

report entitled States' Compliance  Lacking in Meeting Safe

Drinking Water Regulations  (CED 82-43).  The report discusses how

well the Environmental Protection Agency  (EPA) and the States have

implemented certain provisions of the Safe  Drinking Water Act.

THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT

     In December 1974, the Congress passed  the Safe Drinking Water

Act to insure that public water supply  systems throughout the

Nation meet minimum national standards  for the protection of

public health.  The act directed the Administrator,  EPA, to

establish primary drinking water regulations and  set national

health standards for drinking water.  The act also  recognized that

the States and territories have primary responsibility,  commonly

referred to as primacy, for enforcing the regulations and

supervising public water systems in the country.  A public water





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