Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 51 - PUBLIC HEALTH-SANITARY CODE
Part XII - Water Supplies
Chapter 17 - Lead and Copper Rule
Section XII-1701 - General

A. Pursuant to a revision of the definition of National Primary Drinking Water Regulations published in the May 20, 1994 Louisiana Register (LR 20:545), the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) Office of Public Health (OPH) initially adopted by reference the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) federal Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) as published in the Federal Register dated June 7, 1991 (Volume 56, Number 110, pages 26547 through 26564), including the federal Lead and Copper Rule corrections as published in the Federal Registers dated July 15, 1991 (Volume 56, Number 135, page 32113) and June 29, 1992 (Volume 57, Number 125, pages 28788 through 28789). Pursuant to another revision of the definition of National Primary Drinking Water Regulations published in the May 20, 2000 Louisiana Register (LR 26:1037) and the provisions of paragraph 12:026 (now §377), further technical corrections [as published in the Federal Register dated June 30, 1994 (Volume 59, Number 125, page 33862 through 33864)] to the federal Lead and Copper Rule were adopted by DHH-OPH. Pursuant to another DHH-OPH revision of the definition of National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, published in the October 20, 2004 Louisiana Register (LR 30:2326), and the provisions of §377 of this Part, the DHH-OPH adopted by reference the USEPA federal Lead and Copper Rule Minor Revisions (LCRMRs) as published in the Federal Register dated January 12, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 8, pages 2003 through 2014) as well as additional technical corrections to the Lead and Copper Rule as published in the Federal Register dated June 29, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 124, pages 38855 through 38857). Pursuant to yet another DHH-OPH revision of the definition of the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, published in the Louisiana Register (LR 38:2374, September 2012), and the provisions of § 377 of this Part, the DHH-OPH adopted by reference the USEPA federal Lead and Copper Rule Short Term Revisions (LCRSTRs) as published in the Federal Register dated October 10, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 195, pages 57782 through 57820). The regulations in this Chapter are promulgated in order to clarify the state's discretionary decisions allowed by the federal requirements.