Act to Keep Drinking Water Safe from
Plutonium Contamination
The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) invites you to sign a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asking the agency to tighten the drinking water limit for plutonium and other alpha-emitting, long-lived radionuclides.
You will join other groups and individuals in telling the EPA that the drinking water limit for such contaminants must be strengthened to protect public health.
Specifically, the letter urges the EPA to incorporate IEER's scientific analysis of the drinking water standard for alpha-emitting transuranic radionuclides into the agency's legally-mandated review of drinking water limits for radionuclides, scheduled for 2006.
Our goal is to get the EPA to change the combined Maximum Contaminant Limit (MCL) for alpha-emitting, long-lived transuranic radionuclides from 15 picocuries per liter to 0.15 picocuries per liter.
If you are concerned
about the potential impact of too much radiation in your family's drinking
water, please sign. The more
groups and individuals that endorse the report, the better than chances that
EPA will act to strengthen the drinking water standard.
Endorse the report by signing the letter at the IEER web site http://www.ieer.org/epaletter/ or call 612-722-9700 or send an email with your name, organization you represent (if any), city, and state.
The letter will remain open for sign-ons until the EPA concludes its review, probably around fall 2006. IEER will forward new sign-ons to the EPA periodically until that time.