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Quick Information

• Lead and Copper Rule: A Revised Quick Reference Guide (PDF) (2 pp, 125K)
  EPA816-F-08-018 June 2008
  
  
• Lead and Copper Rule: A Quick Reference Guide for Schools and Child Care Facilities that Are Regulated Under the Safe Drinking Water Act (PDF) (5 pp, 546K)
  EPA 816-F-05-030 October 2005
  • for more Quick Reference Guides see this page

Technical Guidance

• Final Revised Guidance Manual for Selecting Lead and Copper Control Strategies (PDF)  (54 pp, 664K)
  EPA 816-R-03-001, March 2003
  This manual is intended to assist water systems and regulatory agencies with selecting and approving effective treatment strategies for controlling lead and copper in drinking water.
  • Appendix A: Questionnaire to Collect Data to Update the Guidance Manual for Selecting Lead and Copper Control Strategies (PDF) (38 pp, 985K)
    
    
• M/DBP Simultaneous Compliance Manual
  EPA-815-R-99-015, August 1999
  Chapter 4 of this manual focuses on potential LCR issues that can arise when systems are making operation changes to comply with microbial and disinfection byproduct rules.
  
  
• Simultaneous Compliance Guidance Manual for Stage 2 Rules (PDF) (462 pp, 3MB)
  EPA 815-R-07-017 May 2007
  This draft manual discusses the issues that systems will face as they evaluate and implement changes necessary to comply with the Stage 2 DBPR and the LT2ESWTR, while still being required to comply with earlier rules such as the Total Coliform Rule and Lead and Copper Rule. Some of the changes that systems may make can have compliance or operational consequences if not properly designed, implemented, and monitored. This manual builds on a similar manual developed for the Stage 1 rules, incorporating new research and case studies, and is presented in a more user-friendly manner. EPA is developing this guidance manual to provide systems and states information on operational and capital changes and approaches to enable systems to evaluate different compliance strategies and technologies.
  
  
• Effect of pH, DIC, Orthophosphate and Sulfate on Drinking Water Cuprosolvency (PDF) (107 pp, 548K)
  EPA 600-R-95-085, June 1995
  Field data from various copper monitoring studies and Lead and Copper Rule compliance data are often inappropriate and misleading for reliably determining fundamental chemical relationships behind copper corrosion control. To address this deficiency, a comprehensive solubility model for copper in drinking water has been developed, that is qualitatively and quantitatively consistent with available data for copper dissolution and precipitation.
  
  
• Lead and Copper Rule Guidance Manual, Volume II: Corrosion Control Treatment
  EPA 811-B-92-002, September 1992
  This document focuses on the evaluation of corrosion control treatment options and the optimization of the full scale treatment. An additional chapter provides guidance on the lead service line requirements.
• LCR Guidance Manual Vol II CCT (PDF) (31 pp, 8MB)
• Vol II CCT Chapter 3 Screening of CC Alternatives (PDF) (60 pp, 22MB)
• Vol II CCT Chapter 4 CC Demonstration Testing (PDF) (43 pp, 189MB)
• Vol II CCT Chapter 5 Full Scale Op & Implementation of OCCT (PDF) (32pp, 12MB)
• Vol II CCT Chapter 6 LSLR (PDF) (60 pp, 8MB)
• Appendixes A, B, C (PDF) (37 pp, 27MB)

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Regulatory Guidance

• Lead and Copper Rule Public Education & Other Public Information Requirements for Community Water Systems Fact Sheet (PDF) (5 pp, 719K)
  EPA 816-F-08-019 June 2008
  The fact sheet summarizes all of the PE and other public information notification requirements for a CWS under the revised lead and copper rule. It provides CWS with concise information on what they need to do after a lead action level exceedance as well as the consumer notification requirements that are not dependent on a lead action level exceedance.
  
  
• Lead and Copper Rule: Public Education and Consumer Notification Requirements for Non-Transient non-Community Water Systems Fact Sheet (PDF) (4 pp, 642K)
  EPA 816-F-08-020 June 2008
  The fact sheet summarizes all of the PE and consumer notification requirements for a NTNCWS under the revised lead and copper rule. It provides NTNCWS with concise information on what they need to do after a lead action level exceedance as well as the consumer notification requirements that are not dependent on a lead action level exceedance.
  
  
• Implementing the Lead Public Education Provisions of the Lead and Copper Rule: A Guide for Community Water Systems (PDF) (93 pp, 1MB)
  EPA 816-R-08-007 June 2008
  The PE guidance details the new PE requirements for CWS, such as who must receive public education materials and the time frame for distribution of the public education materials as well as suggestions on how to have a more effective public education program. The guidance also includes sample templates for water bills, brochures, posters and letters in English and Spanish for different situations in which PE is required.
  
  
• Implementing the Lead Public Education Provisions of the Lead and Copper Rule: A Guide for Non-Transient Non-Community Water Systems (PDF) (75 pp, 932K)
  EPA 816-R-08-008 June 2008
  The guidances details the new PE requirements for NTNCWS, such as who must receive public education materials and the time frame for distribution of the public education materials as well as suggestions on how to have a more effective public education program. The guidance also includes sample templates for water bills, brochures, posters and letters in English and Spanish for different situations in which PE is required.
  
  
• Revised Lead and Copper Monitoring and Reporting Guidance for Public Water Systems (PDF) (126 pp, 2MB)
  EPA-816-R-10-004, March 2010
  This guidance provides a comprehensive discussion of the monitoring and monitoring-related reporting requirements of the LCR, as amended by the 2000 and 2007 Revisions to the Rule.

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State Implementation Guidance