Comment submitted by Rural Community Assistance Partnerhsip (RCAP)

Summary: The Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP), a non-profit network supporting rural and Tribal communities, supports the EPA's Draft Contaminant Candidate List 6 as a logical approach to identifying contaminants. However, they urge the EPA to adopt a risk-based, phased, and flexible implementation strategy to ensure that the resulting regulations remain affordable and technically feasible for small rural water systems with limited resources.