Was NAS Drinking Water Committee Report Ignored by the USEPA?

Abstract

In response to James M. Symon's article “A History of the Attempted Federal Regulation Requiring GAC Adsorption for Water Treatment” (Journal AWWA, August 1984), Suffet questions why the report on activated carbon adsorption by the Subcommittee on Adsorption of the National Research Council's Safe Drinking Water Committee seems to have had little effect on the federal regulatory process. Symons replies that although the committee's recommendations were useful, they were outweighed by other factors during the EPA's decision‐making process.