BLOCK 9: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH - Unit 7: Compliance/Noncompliance (complete)

Question 1

The EPA requires that all analytical results showing compliance with the MCLs listed in the SDWA be sent to the State within _____ days of the end of the reporting period.

Answer 1

10 DAYS

These results are usually submitted through the CE office, but Base policy may require their submission directly to State regulators.

Question 2

Non-compliance reporting is required when primary drinking water regulations are violated, and is accomplished via one of the _____ tier levels.

Answer 2

3 TIERS

Question 3

Serious health effects under short-term exposure

Public notices are required for violations and situations with significant potential to have serious adverse effects on human health as a result of short-term exposure.

Answer 3

TIER 1

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a tier 1 violation?

• Fecal coliform MCL violation or failure to test for fecal contamination after a positive total coliform test.
• Excessive turbidity level, when the State or Federal EPA determines a Tier 1 notice is
  warranted.
• Failure to comply with variances and exemptions approved by the primacy agency.
• Waterborne disease outbreak or other waterborne emergency.

Answer 4

Failure to comply with variances and exemptions approved by the primacy agency.

This is a tier 2 violation.

Question 5

Serious adverse health effects

Public notices are required for other violations and situations with potential to have serious, but not immediate, adverse effects on human health.

Answer 5

TIER 2

Question 6

Situations not covered in Tiers 1 and 2

Normally, these are minor violations that do not pose a serious health risk.

Answer 6

TIER 3

Question 7

from EPA:

Summarizes information about the local drinking water for the previous year.

Answer 7

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORT

Question 8

Consumer Confidence Reports are due to the public no later than __________ of each year.

Answer 8

JULY 1ST

Question 9

What must a CCR include?

Answer 9

• Levels of detected regulated contaminants and their respective MCLs and MCLGs, and any notices of violation.
• The EPA definitions for MCLGs, MCLs, variances, and exemptions, and the statement of health concerns for any contaminant that has exceeded the MCL.
• Notice if the system is operating under a variance or exemption, and why.
• Levels of unregulated contaminants for which monitoring is required, including radon and cryptosporidium.
• A statement that the presence of contaminants in drinking water does not necessarily pose a health risk and that more information is available by calling a given phone number.

Question 10

Public notice of a Tier 3 violation must be given within __________.

Answer 10

12 months

Question 11

For a Tier 1 violation, __________ and __________ must be given notice within 24 hours.

Answer 11

PUBLIC and EPA