La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § V-7701

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section V-7701 - Purpose and Scope

A. Acting under the authority derived from RS. 40:4, 40:5, and 40:11411151 in addition to an assumption of primacy for the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act granted in 1977 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; the Office of Preventive and Public Health Services (OPPHS) conducts a program for the regulation of public water supplies in order to protect the public against disease transmitted through water supplied for drinking, cooking and washing purposes. OPPHS staff provides technical assistance and guidance to managers of water systems which must function in compliance with federal program requirements and to persons with individual private water supplies. OPPHS regulations pertaining to the certification of public water supply operators pursuant to R.S.40:1141-1151 are published separately.

B. Procedures used to enforce OPPHS regulations embodied in Chapter 12 of the Louisiana State Sanitary Code are described in Chapter 1 of that code. Chapter 12 of the State Sanitary Code, entitled "Water Supplies" includes requirements pertaining to permits to construct and operate public water supplies, approval of plans for new supplies or modifications to existing supplies, the operation of supplies, water quality monitoring, standards of water quality; record keeping; reporting requirements; and public notification requirements.

C. Drinking Water Program activities include: plans review; both routine and investigative monitoring/inspection of water quality for bacteriological, chemical and radiological contaminants; technical and emergency advisory assistance to public water supplies. Although public water supplies are not charged for these services, these activities are limited by budgetary restraints, staff workload, and similar factors affecting the prioritization of program activities.

D. Public water supplies seeking information about the foregoing activities or persons wishing additional information or desiring to make a complaint may contact their parish health unit or regional office of OPPHS.

La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § V-7701

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Preventive and Public Health Services, LR 13:246 (April 1987).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:4, R.S. 40:5, R.S. 40:1141-1151, and 41 CFR 142 (B) .