Safe Drinking Water Act

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024634",
  "term": "Safe Drinking Water Act",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. To amend the Public Health Service Act to assure that the public is provided with safe drinking water, and for other purposes.\n\n2. The objective of the Safe Drinking Water Act is to protect public health by establishing safe limits (based on the quality of water at the tap) for contaminants that may have an adverse effect on human health, and to prevent contamination of surface and ground sources of drinking water.\n\n3. The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) of 1974 was established to protect the quality of drinking water in the United States. The act focuses on all waters actually or potentially designed for use as drinking water, whether from aboveground or underground sources. The Act authorized EPA to establish safe standards of purity and requires all owners or operators of public water systems to comply with primary (health-related) standards. State governments that assume that authority from EPA also encourage attainment of secondary (nuisance-related) standards.\n\n4. An Act passed by the US Congress in 1974. The Act establishes a cooperative program among local, state and federal agencies to insure safe drinking water for consumers.\n\n5. The main federal law that ensures the quality of Americans' drinking water. The SDWA sets the framework for the UIC Program to control the injection of fluids. EPA and states implement the UIC Program, which sets standards for safe injection practices and bans certain types of injection.\n\n6. A Federal law that authorizes EPA to set national standards for drinking water and gives EPA authority to control the disposal of hazardous waste into groundwater.\n\n7. The act designed to protect the nation's drinking water supply by establishing national drinking water standards (maximum contaminant levels or specific treatment techniques) and by regulating underground injection control wells.\n\n8. See http://www.epa.gov/region5/defs/html/sdwa.htm. The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) ensures that our tap water is fit to drink. Passed in 1974, SDWA sets national drinking water standards for public systems that deliver water to the tap. SDWA is used with RCRA and CERCLA to protect and cleanup groundwater by setting water quality standards.\n\n9. The Act designed to protect the nation's drinking water supply by establishing national drinking water standards (MCLs or specific treatment techniques) and by regulating UIC wells.\n\n10. Federal drinking water quality legislation administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through state primacy agencies; amended in 1996.",
  "abbreviation": "SDWA",
  "subject": "Land, waste and cleanup",
  "references": [
    "P.L. 93-523",
    "Ag 101 Glossary of American Agriculture",
    "Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment Glossary",
    "Drinking Water Technical & Legal Terms",
    "Underground Injection Control Glossary",
    "Superfund for Students and Teachers Glossary",
    "Glossary: Study of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources",
    "Superfund Acronyms",
    "RCRA Orientation Manual 2008 Glossary",
    "Water Conservation Plan Guidelines Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/safe-drinking-water-act/"
}