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Opportunity for Public Comment on possible regulatory strategies to address the occurrence of unregulated organic contaminants in drinking water Land Use Management Water Supply Administration Safe Drinking Water Program For Public Comment -- Deadline April 2, 2004 Discussion paper to generate dialogue on several approaches for reducing unregulated synthetic organic contamination from public drinking water supplies. I. Summary II. Introduction III. Occurrence of Unregulated Contaminants and Tentatively Identified Compounds in New Jersey Waters 1. Ground Water 2. Surface Water 3. Dover Township Cancer Cluster Study IV. The Current Approach to Regulation of Contaminants in Drinking Water 1. Federal Role in Setting Drinking Water Standards 2. New Jersey Role in Setting NJ-specific Drinking Water Standards V. New Jersey's Current Approach to Addressing Unregulated Contaminants in Drinking Water 1. Chemical-Specific Approaches 2. The Source Water Assessment Program VI. How the Federal Government, Other States, and the European Union Address Unregulated Contaminants in Drinking Water 1. USEPA 2. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 3. Great Lakes Region 4. California 5. Massachusetts 6. New York 7. Washington 8. European Strategies for Addressing Unregulated Contaminants VII. Options for Enhancing New Jersey's Approach to Regulating Contaminants in Drinking Water 1. Chemical-specific regulation of drinking water contaminants 2. Intensive Site Remediation investigation of unregulated contaminant occurrence in ground water 3. Regulate classes of chemicals, by health end-point. 4. Regulate classes of chemicals, by chemical property. 5. Installation of water treatment (e.g., granular activated carbon) VIII. Requested Input from Interested Parties VIIII. References Where Questions or Written Public Comments can be Sent Tables 1 - 4 Table 1. Contaminants Regulated Under the Safe Drinking Water Act Table 2. Drinking Water Standards for Organic Contaminants (not including disinfectants or their by-products): USEPA, NJ and World Health Organization. Table 3A. Specific Ground Water Quality Criteria for Organic Contaminants Table 3B. Interim Ground Water Quality Criteria for Organic Contaminants. Table 4. The Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List