AWWA ACE68752

This powerpoint presentation begins by providing the objectives of this research, including: review past arsenic and M/DBP research plans and assess the incorporation of outcomes into the final rules; and, understand how research efforts were and were not utilized in regulatory development. The approach included the following: identify and catalog each research objective including originating research plan, description of the objective, assigned priority level, assigned funding (where available), individual projects under each objective, and anticipated timeframe by project and objective; and, research tasks were extracted directly from each research plan summary table. Results of the study incorporate results presented for each Rule (Arsenic Rule, Stage 2 Disinfectant/Disinfection Byproducts Rule and Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule) and included the following: overall, category, priority, and time frame; and, results complete for all but U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1997). for M/DBP research plan which is pending Includes tables, figures.