Comments closed June 5
Oppose Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 6-Draft
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
- What
- The EPA is seeking public comment on its draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6), which identifies 75 chemicals, 4 chemical groups, and 9 microbes that currently lack federal drinking water regulations but may need them in the future. The list includes notable groups like PFAS, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and disinfection byproducts that are known or expected to show up in public water systems. This affects drinking water utilities, public health professionals, and communities across the country who rely on regulated public water systems.
- Where
- The notice names no place; see the agency’s own words under Case.
- How much
- We have no figure for this fight yet; the agency’s own words are under Case.
- Decided
- Comments closed June 5, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from Federal Register ↗, read May 9, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur summary of the Federal Register 2026-06662 ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchNo verified figure is on the record for this fight.
- DecidedJune 5, 2026, from Federal Register, the document’s comment close date (federalregister.gov) ↗. Read May 9, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.
Affects public lands
The EPA is seeking public comment on its draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6), which identifies 75 chemicals, 4 chemical groups, and 9 microbes that currently lack federal drinking water regulations but may need them in the future. The list includes notable groups like PFAS, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and disinfection byproducts that are known or expected to show up in public water systems. This affects drinking water utilities, public health professionals, and communities across the country who rely on regulated public water systems.
In the agency’s own words
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing a draft list of contaminants that are currently not subject to any proposed or promulgated national primary drinking water regulations for public review and comment. These contaminants are known or anticipated to occur in public water systems and may require regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in the future. The draft list provided in this document is the sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL) published by the Agency since the SDWA amendments of 1996. The draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6 or the list) includes 75 chemicals, 4…
Who signs it
The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.
The ground
The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.
In court on this ground
This fight isn’t bound to a land unit in PLAN’s record yet, so there are no court cases to show for its ground.
Who holds the vote
PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.
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