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Oklahoma DEQ seeks five new staff to implement tightened federal lead-and-copper rules
Summary
Department of Environmental Quality officials told the appropriations subcommittee EPA—hanges to the Lead and Copper Rule will require new monitoring, inventory work and service-line replacement. DEQ asked for five FTEs and related funding to gain primacy to implement and enforce the rule in Oklahoma.
Rob Singletary, executive director of the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, told the House appropriations subcommittee that a recent string of EPA regulatory changes will increase DEQ workload and that the department needs staff to implement new drinking-water mandates.
"Our mission has long been to protect human health and the environment, but I added the last phrase when I was appointed last June, and that is that we do it in a manner that supports and advances a prosperous Oklahoma for current and future generations," Singletary said.
Singletary said the 2021 Lead and Copper Rule revisions…
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