58:12A-13. Maximum contaminant levels of certain organic compounds; list of contaminants; rules and regulations

a. The commissioner, after considering the recommendations of the Drinking Water Quality Institute created pursuant to section 10 of this amendatory and supplementary act, shall, within 18 months of the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations which establish a maximum contaminant level for each of the following organic compounds:

Trichlorethylene Tetrachloroethylene Carbon tetrachloride 1,1,1-Trichloroethane 1,2-Dichloroethane Vinyl chloride Methylene chloride Benzene Chlorobenzene Dichlorobenzene (s) Trichlorobenzene (s) 1,1--Dichloroethylene Cis--1,2-dichloroethylene Trans--1,2-dichloroethylene Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) Xylenes Ethylene glycol Chlordane Kerosene Formaldehyde n-Hexane Methyl ethyl ketone

b. The commissioner, after considering the recommendations of the Drinking Water Quality Institute, shall, within two years of the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L. 1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations which develop, within the limits of medical, scientific, and technological feasibility, a list of those pesticides and related compounds, metals, and base/neutral extractable organic compounds and acid extractable organic compounds which he believes may be found in drinking water and the presence of which above maximum contaminant levels in drinking water, upon ingestion or assimilation, may, on the basis of the best information available to the commissioner, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological malfunction (including malfunctions in reproduction), or physical deformity; and establish, within the limits of medical scientific and technological feasibility, maximum contaminant levels for each chemical or chemical compound on the list which, with respect to carcinogens, permit cancer in no more than one in one million persons ingesting that chemical for a lifetime, and, with respect to other chemicals or chemical compounds on the list and those carcinogens resulting from compounds with public health benefits, eliminate within the limits of practicability and feasibility all adverse physiological effects which may result from ingestion; provided, however, that in no case shall the standard adopted by the commissioner for any chemical or chemical compound on the list be less stringent than that established for the same chemical or chemical compound by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, pursuant to the "Safe Drinking Water Act," Pub.L. 93-523 (42 U.S.C. s. 300f et seq.), or any other federal agency.

No maximum contaminant level need be established for any substance identified pursuant to subsection a. or b. of this section until the presence of the substance in drinking water is established by any test required by this act.

L.1983, c. 443, s. 2, eff. Jan. 9, 1984.