WATER STANDARD PUSHED BOXER, FEINSTEIN WANT FEDERAL PERCHLORATE LAW.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer California's two U.S. senators have introduced legislation to establish a federal drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. standard for perchlorate perchlorate: see chlorate. , the rocket fuel component found on the Whittaker-Bermite site in central Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, . Sen. Barbara Boxer, incoming chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, described the legislation as a measure to protect the health of pregnant women, fetuses and children. And she faulted the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and for not setting a tap water standard for the chemical. ``Perchlorate is a clear and present danger to California's and much of America's health,'' Boxer said in a written statement entered Thursday into the Congressional Record A daily publication of the federal government that details the legislative proceedings of Congress. The Congressional Record began in 1873 and, in 1947, a feature called The Daily Digest was added to briefly highlight the daily legislative activities of each House, . California is considering setting a perchlorate standard of 6parts per billion for drinking water. The EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. in 2005 set 24.5parts per billion as the safety limit -- but not an enforceable standard -- for daily human intake of perchlorate in drinking water. But the agency does not impose limits on perchlorate in drinking water, as it does for other pollutants. In Santa Clarita, the Castaic Lake Water Agency has pledged to reduce perchlorate to nondetectable levels in water from two wells the agency says were contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. with perchlorate from the Whittaker-Bermite property. Perchlorate was used in the aerospace industry. At the shuttered Whittaker-Bermite site, a former munitions mu·ni·tion n. War materiel, especially weapons and ammunition. Often used in the plural. tr.v. mu·ni·tioned, mu·ni·tion·ing, mu·ni·tions To supply with munitions. manufacturer, it was a component in missiles. Jeffrey Dintzer, a Los Angeles attorney with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, represents companies that have been sued over perchlorate. He said the 24.5parts per billion limit set by the EPA, in consultation with the National Academy of Sciences, is strict enough. ``It is more than safe for our population,'' he said. But environmentalists have argued for a limit even stricter than the 6parts per billion the state is considering. Sujatha Jahagirdar, clean-water advocate for the Los Angeles-based Environment California, welcomed the new legislation, which Boxer introduced with fellow California senator Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. ``If the EPA is looking at the latest science, and if EPA looks at the new Centers for Disease Control (study), I think the only logical place to go is a stronger standard,'' Jahagirdar said. ``Stronger than what California is moving forward with.'' alex.dobuzinskis@dailynews.com (661) 257-5253 |
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