South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-58.11 - Control of Lead and Copper › Section 61-58.11.N - Monitoring for Lead in Schools and Child Care Facilities

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
All community water systems must conduct directed public
				education and lead monitoring at the schools and child care facilities they
				serve if those schools or child care facilities were constructed prior to
				January 1, 2014, or the date the state adopted standards that meet the
				definition of lead free in accordance with Section
				1417 of the Safe Drinking Water
				Act, as amended by the Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act, whichever is
				earlier. Water systems must conduct lead sampling at elementary schools and
				child care facilities they serve once and on request of the facility
				thereafter. Water systems shall also conduct lead sampling at secondary schools
				they serve on request. The provisions of this section do not apply to a school
				or child care facility that is regulated as a public water system. The
				provisions in paragraph (1) of this section apply until a water system samples
				all the elementary schools and child care facilities they serve once as
				specified in paragraph (3) of this section. Thereafter, water systems shall
				follow the provisions as specified in paragraph (7) of this section.
(1) Public Education to Schools and Child
			 Care Facilities
(a) By the compliance date
			 specified in R.61-58.11.B(1)(c),
			 each water system must compile a list of schools and child care facilities
			 served by the system.
(b) Each
			 water system must contact elementary schools and child care facilities
			 identified by the system in paragraph (1)(a) of this section to provide:
(i) Information about health risks from lead
			 in drinking water on at least an annual basis consistent with the requirements
			 of R.61-58.11.G(1);
(ii) Notification that the water system is
			 required to sample for lead at elementary schools and child care facilities,
			 including:
(A) A proposed schedule for
			 sampling at the facility;
(B)
			 Information about sampling for lead in schools and child care facilities (EPA's
			 3Ts for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water Toolkit, EPA-815-B-18-007 or subsequent
			 EPA guidance); and
(C) Instructions
			 for identifying outlets for sampling and preparing for a sampling event thirty
			 (30) days prior to the event.
(c) The water system must include
			 documentation in accordance with R.61-58.11.L(9) if
			 an elementary school or child care facility is non-responsive or otherwise
			 declines to participate in the monitoring or education requirements of this
			 section. For the purposes of this section, a school or child care facility is
			 non-responsive after the water system makes at least two (2) separate good
			 faith attempts to contact the facility to schedule sampling with no
			 response.
(d) The water system must
			 contact all secondary schools in paragraph (1)(a) of this section on at least
			 an annual basis to provide information on health risks from lead in drinking
			 water and how to request lead sampling as specified in paragraph (7)(a) of this
			 section.