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(3) Identifies the category of risk to public health, including, but not limited to, <br />carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, and acute toxicity, associated with exposure to <br />the contaminant in drinking water, and includes a brief plainly worded description of <br />these terms. <br />(4) Describes the best available technology, if any is then available on a commercial <br />basis, to remove the contaminant or reduce the concentration of the contaminant. The <br />public water system may, solely at its own discretion, briefly describe actions that <br />have been taken on its own, or by other entities, to prevent the introduction of the <br />contaminant into drinking water supplies. <br />(5) Estimates the aggregate cost and the cost per customer of utilizing the <br />technology described in paragraph (4), if any, to reduce the concentration of that <br />contaminant in drinking water to a level at or below the public health goal. <br />(6) Briefly describes what action, if any, the local water purveyor intends to take <br />to reduce the concentration of the contaminant in public drinking water supplies and <br />the basis for that decision. <br />(c) Public water systems required to prepare a report pursuant to subdivision (b) <br />shall hold a public hearing for the purpose of accepting and responding to public <br />comment on the report. Public water systems may hold the public hearing as part of <br />any regularly scheduled meeting. <br />(d) The department shall not require a public water system to take any action to <br />reduce or eliminate any exceedance of a public health goal. <br />(c) Enforcement of this section does not require the department to amend a public <br />water system's operating permit. <br />(f) Pending adoption of a public health goal by the Office of Environmental Health <br />Hazard Assessment pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 116365, and in lieu thereof, <br />public water systems shall use the national maximum contaminant level goal adopted <br />by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for the corresponding <br />contaminant for purposes of complying with the notice and hearing requirements of <br />this section. <br />(g) This section is intended to provide an alternative form for the federally required <br />consumer confidence report as authorized by 42 U.S.C. Section 300g-3(c). <br />(Repealed and added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 755, Sec. 12. Effective January 1, 1997.) <br />75C-16 <br />