Likable industry standards or it cooperating procedures than the most Effective Response will be through more consistent enforcement rather than Administrative Burden and confusion of another layer of legislation regulation. With regard to the Safe Drinking Water act measures have been proposed to acquire good design and construction standards, least detection, inventory control, Emergency Response, training, integrity inspection and financial responsibility. Within the terminal industry and in my experience regulations requiring strict adherence to policy provisions are wellestablished and would seem directly applicable to freedom industries. Thank you for the opportunity to provide this testimony and i am happy to respond to questions. Let me thank all seven panelists. I thought was very helpful to us, the information that you supply it. I couldnt agree with you more about the need for infrastructure. The state Revolving Fund is inadequate to deal with the challenges of modern Water
2012 osha Hazard Communication standard requires documentation and vindication of all hazardous properties of all chemicals. In West Virginia state relations require secondary containment for aboveground chemical and Petroleum Tanks that can protect the groundwater furley 72 hours. We understand that state and federal agencies in the chemical safety board are investigating the Freedom Industries access given the impact theres no question that these will be extensive investigations. And we expect resulting incident reports will cite factors contributing to the release of applicable regulatory programs and the possible violations of those regulations. I lta is interested in these findings in particular how the chemical escapes the containment even with an expansive regulatory map anomalous circumstances exist where an incident such as this could occur. We defend that a proper response would begin with understanding those circumstances. I lta contends a legislative response at this moment
Incident provided adequate storage and containment. In light of this catastrophic release, and have been many calls for robust inspections and controls. United water joins with those calls. Protein propagation of a spill of a water supply is critical. Service Water Systems are at the mercy of those located upstream from the water intake structures. Advance warning and notification is critical in any emergency response. Receiving timely notification can make a bad situation less bad and help mitigate the most significant risk to the public. A water provider may have no way to detect or respond to the presence of a contaminant and it is too late in in the system. Having two hours or one hour or even a halfhour can make a big difference repairing for chemicals that are headed toward its intake structure. Closing a structure and waiting until a threat has passed is not possible. These have to be balanced with threats to the community. These can be difficult decisions to make. Third, Water
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