North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 15A - Environmental Quality
Chapter 18 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Subchapter C - WATER SUPPLIES
Section .1600 - VARIANCES AND EXEMPTIONS
Section 18C .1608 - REQUIREMENTS FOR AN EXEMPTION
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
The Secretary may exempt any public water system in the state from any requirement respecting a maximum contaminant level or any treatment technique requirement, or from both, of an applicable rule of this Subchapter upon a finding that:
(1) Due to compelling factors (which may include economic factors), the public water system is unable to comply with such contaminant level or treatment technique requirement;
(2) The public water system was in operation on the effective date of federal promulgation of such contaminant level or treatment technique requirement; and
(3) The granting of the exemption will not result in an unreasonable risk to health.
Authority
G.S.
130A-315;
130A-321;
P.L.
93-523;
40 C.F.R.
142;
Eff. September 1,
1979;
Amended Eff. December 19, 1979;
Transferred and
Recodified from
10 NCAC
10D .2506 Eff. April 4, 1990;
Amended Eff. July 1, 1993;
Pursuant to
G.S.
150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
substantive public interest Eff. November 23,
2015.