ABSTRACT
EPA is well aware of the costliness of this measure for small water districts. In fact, there is provision under the Safe Drinking Water Act for “exemptions” from the standard due to “compelling” factors that may include the inability of a particular district to meet the cost of complying with the standard. However, the term exemption is a little misleading here; it is not an exemption from meeting the standard but rather the granting of an extension of the period over which the district must come into compliance.
