                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REGULATIONS (§ 32.1-170)

A. The regulations of the Board governing waterworks, water supplies, and pure
water shall be designed to protect the public health and promote the public
welfare and shall include criteria and procedures to accomplish these purposes.
			The regulations may include, without limitation:

   1. Requirements and procedures for the issuance of permits required by this
   article;

   2. Minimum health and aesthetic standards for pure water;

   3. Minimum standards for the quality of water which may be taken into a
   waterworks;

   4. Criteria for the siting, design, and construction of water supplies and
   waterworks;

   5. Requirements for inspections, examinations, and testing of raw or finished
   water;

   6. A requirement that owners submit (i) regular samples of water for
   bacteriological, chemical, radiological, physical, or other tests or (ii) the
   results of such tests from such laboratory as may be acceptable to the
   Commissioner;

   7. Requirements for record keeping and reporting;

   8. Methodology for determining the waterworks operation fee authorized by
   &#xA7; 32.1-171.1;

   9. Requirements and criteria for the development and maintenance of an
   emergency management plan for each community public water supply for the
   provision of pure water during any extended power outage; and

   10. Such other provisions as may be necessary to guarantee a supply of pure
   water.

B. The regulations of the Board governing waterworks, water supplies, and pure
water shall include a procedure whereby waterworks serving fewer than 10,000
people may seek and the Board may grant a waiver of any requirement that the
waterworks mail copies of its consumer confidence report to each customer of the
waterworks at least once annually. In such cases, the waterworks owner shall
publish, by July 1 of each year, in a newspaper of general circulation serving
the area served by the waterworks, and by such other means as the Board may deem
appropriate, (i) a copy of the consumer confidence report, (ii) notice that
copies of the consumer confidence report will not be mailed to customers of the
waterworks, and (iii) notice that copies of the consumer confidence report shall
be made available to the public upon request. The waterworks owner shall certify
compliance with the requirements of this subsection to the Board no later than
October 1 of each year.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 62.1-47, 62.1-48, 62.1-51; 1964, c. 475; 1968, c. 659;
1977, c. 7; 1979, c. 711; 1992, c. 804; 2004, c. 317; 2011, cc. 804, 843.