4198 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 10 / Friday, January 15, 2021 / Rules and Regulations ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION e.g., Confidential Business Information 3. Final Rule Requirements AGENCY or other information whose disclosure is K. Find-and-Fix restricted by statute. Certain other 1. Proposed Revisions 40 CFR Parts 141 and 142 material, such as copyrighted material, 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response 3. Final Rule Requirements [EPA–HQ–OW–2017–0300; FRL–10019–23– is not placed on the internet and will be L. Water System Reporting Requirements OW] publicly available only in hard copy 1. Proposed Revisions form. 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response RIN 2040–AF15 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 3. Final Rule Requirements Jeffrey Kempic, Standards and Risk IV. Other Revisions to 40 CFR Part 141 National Primary Drinking Water A. Consumer Confidence Report Regulations: Lead and Copper Rule Management Division, Office of Ground 1. Proposed Revisions Revisions Water and Drinking Water, U.S. 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 3. Final Rule Requirements AGENCY: Environmental Protection Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Mail Code B. Public Notification Agency (EPA). 4607M, Washington, DC 20460; 1. Proposed Revisions ACTION: Final rule. telephone number: (202) 564–4880 (TTY 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response 800–877–8339); email address: 3. Final Rule Requirements SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection [email protected]. For more C. Definitions Agency (EPA) is publishing final 1. Proposed Revisions information visit https://www.epa.gov/ 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response regulatory revisions to the National dwreginfo/lead-and-copper-rule. Primary Drinking Water Regulation 3. Final Rule Requirements SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: (NPDWR) for lead and copper under the V. Rule Implementation and Enforcement A. What are State recordkeeping and authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act I. General Information A. What are EPA’s final revisions? reporting requirements? (SDWA). These revised requirements B. Does this action apply to me? 1. Proposed Revisions provide greater and more effective II. Background 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response protection of public health by reducing A. Health Effects of Lead and Copper 3. Final Rule Requirements exposure to lead and copper in drinking B. Statutory Authority B. What are the special primacy water. The rule will better identify high C. Regulatory History requirements? levels of lead, improve the reliability of III. Revisions to 40 CFR Part 141, Subpart I, 1. Proposed Revisions lead tap sampling results, strengthen Control of Lead and Copper 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response corrosion control treatment A. Lead Trigger Level 3. Final Rule Requirements 1. Proposed Revisions VI. Economic Analysis requirements, expand consumer 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response A. Public Comments on the Economic awareness and improve risk 3. Final Rule Requirements Analysis of the Proposed Rule and EPA communication. This final rule requires, B. Corrosion Control Treatment Response for the first time, community water 1. Proposed Revisions B. Affected Entities and Major Data systems to conduct lead-in-drinking- 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response Sources Used To Characterize the water testing and public education in 3. Final Rule Requirements Sample Universe schools and child care facilities. In C. Lead Service Line Inventory C. Overview of the Cost-Benefit Model addition, the rule will accelerate lead 1. Proposed Revisions D. Cost Analysis service line replacements by closing 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response 1. Drinking Water System Implementation 3. Final Rule Requirements and Administrative Costs existing regulatory loopholes, propelling D. Lead Service Line Replacement 2. Sampling Costs early action, and strengthening 1. Proposed Revisions 3. Corrosion Control Treatment Costs replacement requirements. 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response 4. Lead Service Line Inventory and DATES: 3. Final Rule Requirements Replacement Costs Effective date: This final rule is E. Compliance Alternatives for a Lead 5. Point-of-Use Costs effective as of March 16, 2021. For Action Level Exceedance for Small 6. Public Education and Outreach Costs judicial review purposes, this final rule Community Water Systems and Non- 7. Annualized Per Household Costs is promulgated as of January 15, 2021. Transient, Non-Community Water 8. Primacy Agency Costs Systems 9. Costs and Ecological Impacts Associated Compliance dates: The compliance 1. Proposed Revisions With Additional Phosphate Usage date for the revisions to 40 CFR part 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response 10. Summary of Rule Costs 141, subpart I, is set forth in § 141.80(a). 3. Final Rule Requirements E. Benefits Analysis The compliance date for the revisions to F. Public Education 1. Modeled Drinking Water Lead 40 CFR 141.2 is January 16, 2024, and 1. Proposed Revisions Concentrations the compliance date for 40 CFR 141.31 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response 2. Impacts on Childhood IQ is January 16, 2024. The compliance 3. Final Rule Requirements 3. Impacts on Adult Blood Lead Levels date for changes made to 40 CFR part G. Tap Water Sampling 4. Total Monetized Benefits 141, subpart O (40 CFR 141.153(d)(4)(vi) 1. Proposed Revisions F. Cost-Benefit Comparison 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response 1. Non-Monetized Costs and (xi) and 141.154(d)(1)), is January 3. Final Rule Requirements 2. Non-Quantified Non-Monetized Benefits 16, 2024. The compliance date for H. Water Quality Parameter Monitoring G. Other Regulatory Options Considered changes made to 40 CFR part 141, 1. Proposed Revisions 1. Lead Public Education and Sampling at subpart Q (§ 141.202 and appendices A 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response Schools and Child Care Facilities and B), is January 16, 2024. 3. Final Rule Requirements 2. Lead Tap Sampling Requirements for ADDRESSES: EPA has established a I. Source Water Monitoring Water Systems With Lead Service Lines docket for this action under Docket ID 1. Proposed Revisions 3. Reporting of LSL-Related Information 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response 4. Small System Flexibility No. EPA–HQ–OW–2017–0300. All 3. Final Rule Requirements VII. Administrative Requirements documents in the docket are listed on J. Public Education and Sampling at A. Executive Order 12866: Regulatory the http://www.regulations.gov website. Schools and Child Care Facilities Planning and Review and Executive Although listed in the index, some 1. Proposed Revisions Order 13563: Improving Regulation and information is not publicly available, 2. Public Comment and EPA’s Response Regulatory Review VerDate Sep<11>2014 06:31 Jan 15, 2021 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4701 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\15JAR2.SGM 15JAR2 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with RULES4 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 10 / Friday, January 15, 2021 / Rules and Regulations 4199 B. Executive Order 13771: Reducing soil contaminated by historical sources. research and improving public Regulations and Controlling Regulatory The Federal Action Plan (Action Plan) awareness by consolidating and Cost to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures streamlining Federal messaging. C. Paperwork Reduction Act (From the and Associated Health Impacts, issued Lead and copper enter drinking water Office of Mission Support’s Information mainly from the corrosion of plumbing Collection Request Center) (PRA) in December 2018, provides a blueprint D. Regulatory Flexibility Act as Amended for reducing further lead exposure and materials containing lead and copper. by the Small Business Regulatory associated harm through collaboration Lead was widely used in plumbing Fairness Act (RFA) among Federal agencies and with a materials until Congress prohibited the E. The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act range of stakeholders, including states, use or introduction into commerce of (UMRA) tribes, and local communities, along pipes and pipe fittings and fixtures that F. Executive Order 13132: Federalism with businesses, property owners, and contained more than eight percent lead G. Executive Order 13175: Consultation parents. The Action Plan is the product and solder or flux that contained more and Coordination With Indian Tribal of the President’s Task Force on than 0.2 percent lead in 1986. On Governments Environmental Health Risks and Safety September 1, 2020, EPA published the H. Executive Order 13045: Protection of final rule: Use of Lead Free Pipes, Children From Environmental Health Risks to Children (Task Force). The Task and Safety Risks Force is comprised of 17 Federal Fittings, Fixtures, Solder, and Flux for I. Executive Order 13211: Actions That departments and offices including the Drinking Water. The Lead-Free final Significantly Affect Energy Supply, U.S. Department of Health and Human rule significantly limits the lead content Distribution, or Use Services (HHS) and the U.S Department allowed in plumbing materials (e.g., J. National Technology Transfer and of Housing and Urban Development, pipes, fittings, and fixtures) used in new Advancement Act of 1995 which co-chaired the development of construction and replacement of K. Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions the Action Plan with EPA. existing plumbing. Specifically, the To Address Environmental Justice in Through this plan, EPA committed to Lead-Free rule reduces the percentage of Minority Populations and Low-Income reducing lead exposures from multiple lead content allowed in these materials Populations sources including paint, ambient air, from eight percent to 0.25 percent in L. Consultations With the Science Advisory Board and the National and soil and dust contamination, accordance with the 2011 Reduction of Drinking Water Advisory Council especially to children who are among Lead in Drinking Water Act. M. Consultation With the Department of the most vulnerable to the effects of Many buildings were constructed Health and Human Services Under lead. prior to the restrictions on the use of SDWA Section 1412(d) On June 21, 2019, EPA announced plumbing materials that contained lead. N. Congressional Review Act (CRA) new, tighter standards for lead in dust There are currently an estimated 6.3 to VIII.