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Drinking Water Research: Better Planning Needed to Link Needs and Resources

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 24, 1999
Report No. RCED-99-273
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Summary:

Public water systems are faced with regulations far more complex than in the past and whose costs could be significant for both the systems and their customers. Congress made significant changes in the way that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to set drinking water quality standards for public water systems. This report compares EPA's budget requests for drinking water research during fiscal years 1997 through 2000 with the amounts authorized by law; provides the views of stakeholders on whether EPA will be able to complete the research; and assesses EPA's drinking water research plans, projected funding, and anticipated accomplishments. GAO summarized this report in testimony before Congress; see: Drinking Water Research: Better Planning Needed to Link Needs and Resources, by Peter F. Guerrero, Director, Environmental Protection Issues, before the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, House Committee on Commerce. GAO/T-RCED-00-15, Oct. 20 (15 pages).

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