Public water systems: point-of-use treatment.

Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for the operation of public water systems, and requires the State Department of Public Health to adopt regulations for these purposes. Under existing law, regulations adopted by the department are required to include requirements governing the use of point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment by public water systems in lieu of centralized treatment, where feasible. Existing law authorizes the department to develop limited emergency regulations governing the permitted use of point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment by public water systems in lieu of centralized treatment and requires that these emergency regulations remain in effect until the earlier of January 1, 2014, or the effective date of the required nonemergency regulations. Existing law limits these regulations to public water systems with less than 200 service connection. This bill would, instead, limit these regulations to public water systems with less than 2,500 service connections and would permit the emergency regulations to remain in effect until the earlier of January 1, 2016, or the effective date of the required nonemergency regulations.