Lead and Copper Rule Revisions Guidance

LCRR 2024 Requirements Webinar
What’s Required by LCRR-LCRI in 2024?
Need help with your LCRR Service Line Inventory? 
Training: Submitting a Service Line Inventory

Guidance from VDH-ODW

ODW has developed several documents to help water systems in Virginia navigate the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions. ODW will continue to update these documents and develop new guidance materials as the EPA continues to release new information.

Training hosted by VDH ODW

LCRR 2024 Requirements Webinar: Lead and Copper Rule Revisions – Preparing for Changes Effective October 16, 2024

Lead and Copper Rule Copper Rule Improvements: What’s New and Different in the Proposed Rule?

Lead and Copper Rule Revisions: Submitting a Service Line Inventory

  • Community and Large NTNC Waterworks Webinar 2/8/24 | Slides |
  • Small NTNC Waterworks Webinar 2/13/24 | | Slides |

Lead and Copper Rule Revisions: Guidance for Developing and Maintaining a Service Line Inventory

Videos from EPA

EPA released a video message asking customers to play an important role to assist with identifying lead pipes on the customer’s property or in the home.

English: https://youtu.be/6et78HZRquI

Spanish: https://youtu.be/bVAcojQgfUI

Guidance from EPA

EPA released Guidance for Developing and Maintaining a Service Line Inventory on August 4, 2022. This guidance is intended to help water systems to comply with the requirement of submitting an initial service line inventory by October 16, 2024 set by the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions. It includes best practices on how to prepare and maintain a service line inventory and communicate this information to the public. EPA also released an Inventory Template to accompany this guidance. Both documents are available to download below and are also available on the EPA's website.

Webinars

  • Getting the Lead Out: Guidance for Developing Service Line Inventories and funding Information on BIL (August 10, 2022)
    Recording

 

Consumer Notification Templates for LSL, GRR, and Unknown Service Lines

All water systems with lead, galvanized requiring replacement, or lead status unknown service lines in their service line inventory must inform all persons served by the water system with a lead, galvanized requiring replacement, or lead status unknown service line. A water system must provide the initial notification within 30 days of completion of the lead service line inventory and repeat the notification on an annual basis until the entire service connection is no longer a lead, galvanized requiring replacement, or lead status unknown service line. For new customers, water systems shall also provide the notice at the time of service initiation.

ODW has developed templates for required notifications under the Lead and Copper Rule Revisions. Virginia waterworks may use the ODW templates or EPA template (link below). Waterworks that choose to deviate from the ODW or EPA template should request their field office to review and approve the changes.

Following the customer notification, waterworks must complete the certification statement within 30 days, but no later than July 1, and return it to their field office, along with copies of the customer notifications.

Dates to Remember:

  • October 16, 2024 - Required completion of Lead Service Line Inventory, with submittal of the inventory to the GEC portal.
  • November 15, 2024 - for service line inventories completed on or before October 16, 2024, or 30 days after the completion of the Lead Service Line Inventory - Required notification to consumers with lead service lines, galvanized service lines requiring replacement, or service lines of unknown materials.
  • December 15, 2024 - for service line inventories completed on or before October 16, 2024, or 30 days after initial notification to consumers with lead service lines, galvanized service lines requiring replacement, or service lines of unknown materials - ODW requests submission of initial consumer notification certification statement* to the appropriate Field Office of VDH-ODW.
  • July 1, 2025 - Submit the consumer notification certification statement to the appropriate Field Office of VDH-ODW covering calendar year 2024, to include new customer notifications.

*The Lead and Copper Rule Revisions Rule (LCRR) requires consumer notification to new customers with lead service lines, galvanized service lines requiring replacement, or service lines of unknown materials at the time of service initiation.  Waterworks need to establish a new business process to ensure this notification is completed.

ODW Templates
Consumer Notice Confirmed LSL
Consumer Notice Galvanized Requiring Replacement
Consumer Notice Lead Status Unknown
Certification – Known or Potential SL Containing Lead

EPA Templates

Tier 1 Public Notification
Effective October 16, 2024, the 2021 Lead and Copper Rule Revisions require water systems to issue a Tier 1 Public Notification (PN) when there is an exceedance of the lead action level no later than 24 hours after the systems learns of an exceedance. This document provides a template that water systems can use to develop a Tier 1 PN for a lead action level exceedance.

ODW Tier 1 PN Following a Lead Action Level Exceedance Template

EPA:

Following the Tier 1 public notification, waterworks must complete and return the certification statement within 10 days to their field office, along with copies of the Tier 1 public notification.

Tier 1 PN Certification Statement

Other Info/Readings
Lead service line identification: A review of strategies and approaches (Hensley et al., 2021)

 

Last Updated: November 20, 2024