On June 24, 2021, the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA), the Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA), and the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) submitted joint comments in response to the Request for Information (RFI): Drinking Water Contaminants of Emerging Concern for the National Emerging Contaminant Research Initiative (NECRI).
The letter is responsive to elements of the Request for Information published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), while also stressing the importance of sourcewater protection from CECs as well national adoption of the lifecycle framework for addressing CECs in water as outlined in ACWA and ASDWA’s CEC Recommendations Report.
ASDWA ACWA ECOS_NECRI RFI Comments_6.24.2021