California Health and Safety Code

§ 116375

HSC § 116375 Effective Jan 1, 2026Div. 104 · Part 12 · Ch. 4 · Art. 3

Statute text

The department shall adopt regulations it determines to be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The regulations shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(a)The monitoring of contaminants, including the type of contaminant, frequency and method of sampling and testing, and the reporting of results.

(b)The monitoring of unregulated contaminants for which drinking water standards have not been established by the department. The requirements shall be not less stringent than those adopted pursuant to paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Section 1445 of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. Sec. 300j-4 (a)(2)). Until the time that the department adopts regulations regarding the monitoring of unregulated contaminants, the department may, by order, require any public water system that has been shown to contain detectable levels of any unregulated contaminants to conduct periodic water analyses in accordance with conditions specified by the department. The water analyses shall be reported on a quarterly basis unless the department finds that more or less frequent analysis is necessary.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 529, Sec. 10. (SB 614) Effective January 1, 2026.