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(a) Any A person operating a public water system shall obtain and provide at that person’s expense an analysis of the water to the state board, in the form, covering those matters, and at intervals as the state board by regulation may prescribe. The analysis shall be performed by a laboratory duly certified by the state board.(b) (1) The person shall include samples from schools, day care facilities, and health care facilities, to the extent that these locations are within the public water system.
(2) This subdivision does not require an increase in the number of samples a person collects.
(b) (c) (1) The adoption of regulations under this section relating to the form or format of, and intervals at which, the analysis shall be provided and any amendments to that regulation is an emergency and shall be considered by the Office of Administrative Law as necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, and general welfare. Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, an emergency regulation or amendments to that regulation adopted by the state board pursuant to this section is not subject to review by the Office of Administrative Law and shall remain in effect until revised by the state board. The state board shall hold a public hearing before adopting the regulations. person shall report to the state board the date and results of any sampling at a school, day care facility, and health care facility, and where relevant, the contents of any notice issued to the school or day care facility, students, or parents, and any notices to the health care facility, and any followup action taken to mitigate contamination.
(2) The person operating a public water system shall report to the state board, in a format and on a frequency determined by the state board, a list of the public and private schools serving kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to which the public water system provides water. The state board may also require a person operating a public water system to identify other facilities that serve populations, such as young children, that may be sensitive to drinking water contamination and to which the public water system provides water.
(3) The state board shall post the information contained in paragraph (1) to its Internet Web site in a manner that is searchable by school and school district. The state board shall also include a link to the public water system’s most recent consumer confidence report.