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� <br />� <br />11 <br />_ <br />and Responsibilities: <br />SOVVA applies to every public water system in <br />1h* United States. There are currently more than <br />170,000 public water systems providing water to <br />almost all Americans at some time in their lives. The <br />responsibility for making sure these public water <br />systems provide safe drinking water is divided among <br />U3 EPA, states, tribes, water systems, and the public, <br />3DVVA provides o framework in which these parties <br />work 1oOnthor to protect this vo|un6|e resource. <br />US EPA sets national standards for drinking water <br />based on sound science /n protect against health <br />risks' considering available technology rind costs. <br />These National Primary Drinking Water Regulations <br />set enforceable moximom con|ominont |ovo|s for <br />particular contaminants in drinking water or required <br />ways |n treat <br />water to /omuvo <br />contaminants. <br />Each standard <br />also includes <br />requirements for <br />water systems <br />to test for <br />con+ominontn <br />in the water <br />to make sore <br />r� ^ x _r n - n stn�� -��_ - ° <br />achieved. In � <br />addition to <br />selling these <br />standards, US � <br />. 1, <br />EPA provides <br />guidance, <br />assistance, <br />and public <br />information <br />obootdrinking <br />wotor,coUects <br />Ip <br />drinking water data, and oversees s+o+n drinking water <br />p/ogrumu. <br />ON <br />. <br />. <br />The most direct oversight of water systems is <br />conducted by stale drinking water programs. Slates <br />can apply to U5 EPA for "primacy," the oWhorily|o <br />implement SOVYA within their ioris6ic+iono, if they <br />can show that they will adopt standards at |eoy| as <br />stringent as U3 EPA'n and muko sore water systems <br />meet these standards. All states and territories, except <br />Wyoming and the District of Columbia, have received <br />primacy. VYhi|o no Indian tribe has yet applied for <br />and received primacy, four tribes currently receive <br />"treatment as o state" do|uo' and are eligible for <br />